Pasadena Public Library
Today was the first Infant Storytime of the spring session! It was wonderful seeing all of those beautiful babies this morning. We explored stories about bears, sang some great songs and did quite a bit of bouncing around. Hope everyone had as much fun as I did! Listed below you’ll find […]
On Saturday we read stories about the people who help out around our neighborhood! Books We Shared Supertruck by Stephen Savage combines an overview of different kinds of jobs and vehicles with a story about an unlikely hero. Everyone thinks garbage truck “just collects the trash,” but when a blizzard […]
“Autism … offers a chance for us to glimpse an awe-filled vision of the world that might otherwise pass us by.” Dr. Colin Zimbleman, Ph.D. Sensory Storytime is a fun, interactive, educational storytime designed for preschool age children with autism and/or sensory challenges. It involves books, songs, movement and therapeutic play that incorporate […]
“Autism is part of my child, it’s not everything he is. My child is so much more than a diagnosis.” ―S.L. Coelho, author Sensory Storytime is a fun, interactive, educational storytime designed for preschool age children with autism and/or sensory challenges. It involves books, songs, movement and therapeutic play that incorporate the five […]
Preschool STEAM (for children ages 2-6) is all about having fun with science, math and art! There is no right or wrong way for children to experiment – the fun and learning comes from the doing! Early childhood research shows us that little hands and minds learn best when at play. […]
We read about mice and rats and all things nice (and not so nice). There was a mouse who was lost in the woods and kept running into some scary animals, a mouse who was frightened when he lost his ball in a scary doghouse, and some mice who were […]
“Autism is part of my child, it’s not everything he is. My child is so much more than a diagnosis.” ―S.L. Coelho, author Sensory Storytime is a fun, interactive, educational storytime designed for preschool age children with autism and/or sensory challenges. It involves books, songs, movement and therapeutic play that incorporate the five […]
In today’s storytime we read all about the machines and tools that construction workers use! Machines, trucks and tools are fascinating to children and there are a lot of great preschool books on this topic. Books We Shared Little Excavator by Anna Dewdney Little E is so excited to help […]
In storytime today, we started off by looking at pictures of a rhino, a narwhal, and a unicorn and seeing what they all have in common: They all have one horn! So we celebrated one-horned creatures in all parts of storytime today. Books We Shared Not Quite Narwhal by […]
Our “Art & Play” program for children ages 2-6 focuses on “process art”. With process art the fun is all in the doing, there are no rules; it involves exploration and tactile learning with no specific outcome. In the end you always end up with a work of art, even if it isn’t […]