Preschool Storytime: Elephants

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Storytime with elephants means BIG fun.  Today we shared some new stories about these favorite gray fellows. To find any of the items used in today’s storytime, just click on the photo of the book. Books We Shared What do you get when you cross an elephant with a helicopter?  […]

Shared Storytelling for Tweens

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On Saturday, November 23, the Central Library hosted a Shared Storytelling workshop for kids ages 8 -12.  We had a lot of fun making stories together in different ways. First, we started off with some exquisite corpse drawing.  Exquisite corpse was a game played by surrealist artists in the 1920s.  […]

Infant & Toddler Storytime: Hats

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Miss Marie was out today, so I got to step in and present some fun storytimes about Hats. Stories We Shared In Jean Marzollo’s Ten Cats Have Hats we counted different animals who had unusual accoutrements that rhymed with their name (one bear with a chair, two ducks with trucks…).  […]

Wordless Picture Books

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I love wordless (and mostly wordless) picture books.  In 1992, David Wiesner, a master of wordless picture   books, won the Caldecott medal (the award for the illustrator of the most distinguished American picture book) for his book Tuesday.  That book, about a night of adventure for frogs on hovering lily […]

Preschool Storytime: Grumpy!

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We’ve gotten a lot of new children’s books in the library lately all about being in a bad mood.  I thought why not highlight some of these titles during storytime?  Today we had a lot of fun being grumpy. To find any of the items used in today’s storytime, just […]

Preschool Storytime: Apples!

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Even though it’s a hot 94° here, September always makes me think about autumn and starting school.  So what better theme for our first September preschool storytime than apples? To find any of the items used in today’s storytime, just click on the photo of the book. Books We Shared […]

Books as Games: Making Reading Interactive

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For 105 weeks, Press Here by Hervé Tullet has been on the New York Times Bestseller list.  This ingenious book takes the idea of an interactive app and puts it into a traditional format.  The book begins with a single yellow circle and the instructions “Press here and turn the […]

Preschool Storytime: Cats

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Today we had a “purr”fect preschool storytime full of fantastic felines! To find any of the these books in the library catalog, just click on the cover picture. Books We Shared After singing our welcome song and doing some jumping, we settled down to read our first book, Dog in […]

Making Butter @ the Library!

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On Saturday July 20, as part of the Library’s Fun Food Week, the Children’s Room hosted LOAFING AROUND, a celebration of bread around the world.  We share stories, tasted different types of bread, and even made our own butter in a glass jar. To make your own butter you need: […]

Up, Up, and Away! Flying Books for Kids

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Are you taking a trip to a far off and distant land with your family this summer?  Or even a quick flight to visit family members?  Will it be your child’s first experience on an airplane? If so, you may want to check out some of the great books we […]