Celebrating El Deafo part 2 — Sign language and clues

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continued from El Deafo Part 1   Sign Scavenger Hunt The program was geared toward kids ages 8-12, but all ages were invited to attend.  We started out in the Story Room where our Sign Language professional on staff, Tiffany Duenas, spoke a little about deaf culture and taught basic sign language. […]

Celebrating El Deafo part 1 — Jeopardy & capes

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In the spirit of One City, One Story, the Pasadena Public Library and Vroman’s Bookstore hosted programs centered around the Young Readers League (YRL) selection, El Deafo by Cece Bell. YRL is designed as a community-wide reading celebration by championing and geeking out over a single book. El Deafo is a hilarious and charming graphic novel memoir about a young hearing impaired girl […]

The Name of This Event is Secret

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On 12-13-14… guests gathered in our auditorium for Pseudonymous Bosch, bestselling author of the Secret series.  Mr. Bosch introduced the audience to his new book Bad Magic, performed some silly magic tricks, and made everyone laugh.     The Secret series   Activities In addition to meeting Mr. Bosch himself […]

Family Storytime: Moose!

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Today’s storytime was about the mighty moose! We started with a great new book written by Richard T. Morris and illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld, titled This is a Moose. In the story, a film is being made about a moose, but the film goes awry as the moose is anything […]

What a Character! Guessing Game Answers

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Did you participate in the What a Character! Guessing Game during TELLABRATION in November?  If so, you may be wondering who all those characters were.  Here you’ll find the answers.  If you click on the picture of the characters you will find links to their books in our library catalog […]

Tiny Tales @ PPL: 2014 WINNING STORIES

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In November, we celebrated TELLABRATION!:  a week of stories and storytelling.  Among the activities was a short-short story contest.  Children ages 8-12 were invited to write stories of 55 words or less, and each site choose the best story from their submissions to win a Folkmanis puppet!  Here are the […]

Winter – Preschool Storytime

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This storytime was presented on December 20, so of course we had to do a tribute to the upcoming season — Winter! Books We Shared   Our books today featured animals that normally hibernate during winter – a frog and a bear.  We began with Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan […]

Infant Bounces and Tickles: Fall 2014 Session

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If you enjoyed bouncing and tickling your way through our Fall 2014 Session of infant storytime, here are the rhymes we used! Game Peek-a-Boo (to tune of Frere Jacques) Peek-a-Boo, peek-a-boo (cover eyes with hands, then remove) I see you, I see you (point at child) I see your tiny […]

Infant & Toddler Storytime: Snow!

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Since this was the last storytime of the Fall session, it seemed only fitting to transition into winter with stories about Snow! Books We Shared      To begin infant storytime we read Oh! by Kevin Henkes.  This is a look at all the various ways animals can play in the snow. […]

Family Storytime – Dogs & Cats! – December 13

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We shared stories about dogs and cats today…two of the children even helped me tell the story of  Mr. Dog and Mrs. Cat who lived “up the hill and down the hill” from each other.  It was a fun time filled with books, action rhymes, songs and a video to end it […]