Pasadena Public Library
Today, we shared stories about creative crayons while learning about working together, diversity, identity, creating stories, images, and new colors! Stories Frankencrayon by Michael Hall: If the crayons cannot stop the scribble monster, this picture book and the play “Frankencrayon” may have to be canceled. Monsters Love Colors by Mike Austin: […]
Mothers are magnificent. Sure, it may be after Mother’s Day, but we can celebrate Mom’s every day. Books We Shared Our first book in infant storytime was I Love My Mommy by Sebastien Braun, a sweet reflection on all the wonderful things mothers do including feed their babies, help […]
Who can pick a favorite color when there are so many! Good thing we didn’t have to in today’s storytime – we read about all the colors. Books We Shared We started our infant storytime with a book about the color that things are not: Lemons are Not Red by […]
On Saturday our preschool storytime crowd had fun with silly books about hair! We started storytime with the Wiggleworms Love You song “Clap Your Hands” and then read the book Mustache Baby by Bridget Heos. I think the parents liked the tongue-in-cheek humor in this one! It’s a funny book […]
What’s black and white and lots of fun? Storytime about Pandas, of course! Books We Shared In infant storytime, we began with a book about two bears that could not seem more different: Panda Big and Panda Small by Jane Cabrera. This book highlights a lot of fun opposites, […]
We had the Pasadena Garden Club celebrating their 100th anniversary with a flower show in the library this past weekend. Of course, we had to bring the flower fun into preschool storytime! Books We Shared In our first book, Fran’s Flower by Lisa Bruce, illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw, Fran […]
Books about the body are such fun to read with infants and toddlers! So many of the books are splendidly interactive! Books We Shared For infant storytime, we started with a lift-the-flap story that uncovers ears, eyes, elbows and more: Toes, Ears & Nose by Marion Dane Bauer, illustrated by Karen […]
From feeling invisible to almost being invisible, these characters are not quite invisible. Songs “We Clap and Sing Hello” (to the tune of “The Farmer in the Dell”) We clap and sing hello We clap and sing hello With our friends at storytime, We clap and sing hello (Wave and […]
This week is National Library Week! We celebrated it in our Infant and Toddler Storytimes yesterday by sharing stories and rhymes all about books, reading and libraries! Books We Shared Don’t you wish you had books with you all the time? Well, with the clever idea presented in our first […]
We read some pretty funny animal stories in our family storytime! Here are some of the books & activities we shared: OUR BOOKS: Clarabella’s Teeth by An Vrombaut Which is Round? Which is Bigger? by Mineka Mamada The Baby That Roared by Simon Puttock OUR FLANNEL BOARD: Teasing Mr. Crocodile […]