Infant & Toddler Storytimes: Dads

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I’m sorry it’s take me a while to post some of our Summer Session Infant/Toddler storytimes.  But, let’s get things back on track! On June 23, we shared stories about a special someone in our lives — Dad!  Remember, to find any of these books in our catalog, just click […]

Infant & Toddler Storytimes: Music & Song

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With the first storytimes for the Summer 2015 Infant Toddler Storytime series I wanted to highlight the theme of this year’s Summer Reading Challenge – Read to the Rhythm.  All the stories we shared incorporated some type of singing or music. And don’t forget, sharing stories during the Summer counts […]

Balloons – Preschool Storytime

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We took things up, up and away with stories about balloons today! Books We Shared   To start off our balloon adventure we read a new title from Philip C. Stead –  Sebastian and the Balloon. Sebastian gets bored in his old neighborhood so he makes a balloon, brings everything he […]

Preschool Dance Party!

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On February 20th, we held a Preschool Dance Party up on our Studio on 4th.  We danced, shook shakers, and waved scarves. Here’s the playlist we used for the party.   Most of these cds are available for check-out at the library – click on the CD image to be taken […]

Birds – eStorytime

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We celebrated things that fly and chirp in today’s eStorytime all about birds! Apps We Shared Before revealing the theme of today’s eStorytime with the audience, we played a guessing game with our first app.  I played an animal sound using Animal Sounds – Fun Toddler Game by Innovative Mobile […]

Underwear – Preschool Storytime

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We got silly today at our preschool storytime with books all about UNDERWEAR! Books We Shared   We started things off with a book about counting, sharing, and of course, UNDERWEAR: One Big Pair of Underwear by Laura Gehl and Tom Lichtenheld.  This rhyming book is a wonderful rhythmic read. Have […]

Shopping & Market – eStorytime

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For our eStorytime today we visited the market and did some shopping! Apps We Shared    With our first book, A Day in the Market story by May Tobias-Papa, illustrated by Isabel Roxas from Adarna house (iOS: $2.99; Android Free) we took a trip around the world to the Philippines. With the […]

What a Character! Guessing Game Answers

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Did you participate in the What a Character! Guessing Game during TELLABRATION in November?  If so, you may be wondering who all those characters were.  Here you’ll find the answers.  If you click on the picture of the characters you will find links to their books in our library catalog […]

Tiny Tales @ PPL: 2014 WINNING STORIES

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In November, we celebrated TELLABRATION!:  a week of stories and storytelling.  Among the activities was a short-short story contest.  Children ages 8-12 were invited to write stories of 55 words or less, and each site choose the best story from their submissions to win a Folkmanis puppet!  Here are the […]

Winter – Preschool Storytime

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This storytime was presented on December 20, so of course we had to do a tribute to the upcoming season — Winter! Books We Shared   Our books today featured animals that normally hibernate during winter – a frog and a bear.  We began with Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan […]