Last night there was a long line here in the Central Library great hall–around 120 people came to support their 2nd and 3rd grade students in answering questions about the book Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business (in Spanish Junie B. Jones y el negocio del mono) by […]
Kids’ Writing Workshop: The Erasmus Game
Published on :On Friday, Sept. 23 in our Kids’ Writing Workshop for children ages 8-12, we played something called “The Erasmus Game,” which I got to learn from PCC professor and YA author E. Katherine Kottaras. This exercise is based on Chapter 33 of the book Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style […]
Family Storytime – Spiders, Flies & Other Creepy Crawlies…
Published on :We had fun during our family storytime today! We explored stories about spiders, flies & other creepy crawly creatures. There was even a little bug eating going on…(well we didn’t really eat any bugs, but we did pretend). Below are some of the books, songs & fun activities we shared. BOOKS: Okay…why […]
A Pig Parade is a Terrible Idea: Creative Writing for Beginning Readers
Published on :This month’s Creative Writing for Beginning Reader’s workshop (for ages 5-8) was inspired by the book A Pig Parade is a Terrible Idea by Michael Ian Black and illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. It’s a hilarious picture book that is all about contrasting the bright, shiny parade in the narrator’s imagination: […]
Roald Dahl 100
Published on :We had 45 people come to our Roald Dahl 100 Celebration on Tuesday, September 13th, the centennial of Roald Dahl’s birth! Mr. Nick told us all about Dahl’s life and how his life sometimes inspired his fiction and his writing style. We did a quiz, a word search, and a […]
Kids’ Writing Workshop with Tracy Holczer
Published on :On Friday, August 26, we had Tracy Holczer here at the Pasadena Public Library children’s story room to teach creative writing to kids aged 8-12. Tracy Holczer wrote the gorgeous middle grade novel The Secret Hum of a Daisy. We discussed lots of things: reading, how to write a good […]
Bikes – Preschool Storytime
Published on :During preschool storytime a few weeks ago, we shared stories about a type of transportation you make go – Bikes! Books We Shared The first book we read was Bike On, Bear! written by Cynthea Liu, illustrated by Kristyna Litten. Bear is good at almost everything – science, gymastics, helping […]
Infant & Toddler Storytime – Bears
Published on :I’m a little late in updating this, but I wanted to share the fun we had at our last Infant/Toddler Storytimes for the Summer session on August 16. We shared books about bears! Books We Shared We got off to a slow, peaceful start in our infant storytime by […]
Books! Books! Books! Storytime
Published on :We started storytime today with Clap Your Hands and told a story with puppets, based on Book! Book! Book! by Deborah Bruss and illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke. All the animals at the farm are bored because the kids are back in school, so they go to the public library and […]
Curiosity Machine: Build a Balanced Dinosaur
Published on :On Thursday, August 25th, while the rest of the library was closed early, kids and their parents were hanging out here in the children’s Story Room learning about paleontology and center of gravity, and building their own dinosaurs! I showed a slide show about how scientists’ concepts of dinosaurs has […]