Young Readers League 2019 “Hidden History” Writing Contest Honorable Mention (Category 1: ages 8-11) “Mystery Package” by Emelia Lagousis Grade 6 Summary: The narrator finds a mysterious letter with a mission. The door creaked open, revealing the storm outside- and the strange, battered package on my porch. […]
Read Around the World Book Club: The Parker Inheritance
Published on :Last night we had our first Read Around the World book club meeting, and our book was The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson. We had a wonderful group! When the kids and parents entered, I gave them a packet: We did that first page together–the word is SPY! It […]
Uh Oh! Infant Storytime
Published on :Books We Shared Breakfast… Uh-oh! Bathtime… Uh-oh! An adorable toddler finds all kinds of occasions for using the phrase in Rachel Isadora’s Uh-oh! Kids are little scientists, aren’t they? I remember when all my daughter wanted to do was drop something from her high chair and watch her grandpa pick […]
Uh Oh! Toddler Storytime
Published on :Books We Shared Breakfast… Uh-oh! Bathtime… Uh-oh! An adorable toddler finds all kinds of occasions for using the phrase in Rachel Isadora’s Uh-oh! Wild Baby by Cori Doerrfeld is a new book, and since it was a bit long for our purposes I just abridged it a little. A baby […]
Squirrels! Preschool Storytime
Published on :It’s fall, and time to celebrate the frisky creatures bouncing along storing nuts – Squirrels! Books We Shared Where are My Books? by Debbie Ridpath Ohi Spencer’s books are going missing! His dad doesn’t know where they are. His mom doesn’t know. It’s not his little sister. So who has […]
(Not So) Scared: Preschool Storytime
Published on :As I went to post the storytime I shared this week, I realized I had forgotten to post the last one I did at the Library! So this week will be a preschool-storytime twofer! Since it was around Halloween-time, I decided to do not scary stories, but stories about being […]
Dragons! ~ Preschool Storytime
Published on :In last Saturday’s storytime, we shared some great stories and flannel rhymes about DRAGONS – FIRE BREATHING DRAGONS! We also lost a dragon in New York City. That was scary! Here are the books, songs, flannel boards, action rhymes and video we shared. Our Library Dragon – Percy. Books We […]
Counting: Toddler Storytime
Published on :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 […]
Counting: Infant Storytime
Published on :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
Published on :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 […]