Pasadena Public Library
Sad toilets, hungry ghosts, ugly dumplings, and grumpy pets — In today’s storytime, we learned that there’s the perfect time and place for everything. Stories The Saddest Toilet in the World by Sam Apple; illustrated by Sam Ricks: Danny would sit anywhere and everywhere: a comfy couch, a bean bag […]
We had another terrific creative writing class for ages 5-8 with author-illustrator Ashlyn Anstee, who created the books Are We There, Yeti? and No, No, Gnome! Kids had a great time making up a funny character with crazy attributes, and coming up with a problem for him and a solution, […]
Today we celebrated scheming, sneaky foxes! Books We Shared The first book we shared was the inspiration for this storytime: Fox and the Jumping Contest by Corey R. Tabor. Fox isn’t the best jumper, but he really wants to win the jumping contest. So, like any scheming fox, he decides […]
Things went much smoother at our most recent Lucha Libros battle on November 2nd. I noticed we had slightly lower attendance than last month… World Series Game 7, perhaps? 😉 (It’s okay, I forgive you–after all it was a historic game.) We had a few new systems to manage the […]
On Saturday, October 29, we had our Project Designation graphic design class for ages 11-14 in the Studio on 4th. Kids learned some concepts and tricks of graphic design, learned how to work with Pixlr editor, and got to design and print their own framed dry-erase weekly schedule. They also […]
This Tuesday we explored books about pumpkins and all things Halloween! We started by following Batty (our library bat) into the storyhour room! At the conclusion of storytime, each of the children picked a “felt” pumpkin from the library’s pumpkin patch and placed it onto the felt board! The end result? A colorful, […]
Last Tuesday we read books about playing and pretending for our Infant and Toddler Storytimes. Here are some of the stories and activities we shared about our theme! Stories During our infant storytime, we read Meeow and the Little Chairs. In Sebastian Braun’s story, Meeow and her friends use their colorful chairs […]
The first meeting of our fall session of Infant and Toddler Storytime was ALL about APPLES – the juicy kind! Here are some of the stories and activities we shared about our theme! Stories During our infant storytime, we read about Pepo and Lolo’s quest to reach a red, juicy apple stuck […]
What happens when you find a giraffe in your soup? When your dog sleepwalks? When you find an elephant and make him your pet? Some very funny shenanigans!!! We read stories about those subjects, sang a song with our egg shakers, participated in some action rhymes, a flannel board story and […]
I started out storytime with a puppet show using a bunch of our Folkmanis puppets of all kinds of birds. I used them to tell the story of Hello, My Name is Ruby by Phillip C. Stead. In my telling, Ruby is a chicken (because I have more chickens than […]