Counting: Infant Storytime

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Books We Shared Ten Tiny Babies features Karen Katz’s adorable illustrations of rolly-polly bouncy babies, and we count them from 1 to 10. Nancy Tafuri is one of the best author/illustrators for babies and toddlers, and in Five Little Chicks some baby chicks and their mother hen have fun exploring […]

Shapes: Infant Storytime

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Books We Shared Animal Shapes by Christopher Silas Neal was a big hit! Using animals, shapes and lots of creative wordplay, Neal takes the names of shapes and turns them into puns– two giraffes plus a rectangle become a NECK-tangle, and two kittens plus a circle become a PURRR-cle! I […]

Shapes: Toddler Storytime

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Books We Shared Animal Shapes by Christopher Silas Neal was a big hit! Using animals, shapes and lots of creative wordplay, Neal takes the names of shapes and turns them into puns– two giraffes plus a rectangle become a NECK-tangle, and two kittens plus a circle become a PURRR-cle! I […]

Dressing Up: Toddler Storytime

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In my last email, I invited everyone to come to storytime in a costume if they’d like. There were many adorable and creative costumes! Here are some group photos I took: 10 am group: 11 am group: Books We Shared I love the wearable books by Donald Lemke and Bob […]

Dressing Up: Infant Storytime

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In my last email, I invited everyone to come to storytime in a costume if they’d like. There were many adorable and creative costumes! Here are some group photos I took: Books We Shared Our first book for Infant Storytime was one I think I might have bought from the […]

Transportation: Preschool Storytime

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Books We Shared Go! Go! Go! Stop! by Charise Mericle Harper reimagines traffic lights and gives them a story, about a traffic light who could only say “Go!” and who needed the help of another to say “Stop!” In McToad Mows Tiny Island by Tom Angleberger and illustrated by John […]

Transportation: Toddler Storytime

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Books We Shared Charlie Rides by Bob Bianchini is about a boy enjoying all kinds of vehicles with his Dad! It’s unclear whether the protagonist of Love is a Truck by Amy Novesky and Sara Gillingham is a boy or a girl–but it’s not important. What is clear is that […]

Transportation: Infant Storytime

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Books We Shared Charlie Rides by Bob Bianchini is about a boy enjoying all kinds of vehicles with his Dad! It’s unclear whether the protagonist of Love is a Truck by Amy Novesky and Sara Gillingham is a boy or a girl–but it’s not important. What is clear is that […]

Body: Toddler Storytime

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For today’s storytime we learned about parts of the body. I asked each toddler to point to different parts of a teddy bear’s body on their way in. So they were already practicing the words for ears, eyes, nose, arms, feet, head, etc. even before storytime started! Books We Shared […]

Body: Infant Storytime

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For today’s storytime we learned about parts of the body. Books We Shared Hey Little Baby by Heather Leigh and illustrated by Genevieve Cote has a nice message, asking the baby in the story what he will do with his marvelous hands, where he will go with his feet, what […]