Pasadena Public Library
Our summer session of Toddler Storytime is underway. Each week you’ll find a blog post that covers the books, rhymes, songs, flannel stories, fingerplays, puppets and video we shared. There will also be some information about the benefits of reading, singing and talking to your toddler. For our second storytime of the session we enjoyed reading and singing about […]
Our summer session of Infant Storytime is underway. Each week you’ll find a blog post that covers the books, rhymes, songs, tickle, bounces, flannel stories, fingerplays and puppets we shared. I also throw in some information about the benefits of reading, singing and talking to your baby! For our second storytime of the session we enjoyed reading […]
Our summer session of Toddler Storytime is underway. Each week you’ll find a blog post that covers the books, rhymes, songs, flannel stories, fingerplays, puppets and video we shared. There will also be some information about the benefits of reading, singing and talking to your toddler. For our very first storytime of the session we enjoyed reading and singing […]
Our summer session of Infant Storytime is underway. Each week you’ll find a blog post that covers the books, rhymes, songs, tickle, bounces, flannel stories and finger puppets we shared. We also throw in some information about the benefits of reading, singing and talking to your baby! For our very first storytime of the session we […]
Books We Shared In Baby Brains and RoboMom by Simon James, a super-smart baby notices his mother working very hard and invents a viable substitute to give her a break. The only problem is, he doesn’t like when RoboMom changes his diapers and gives him a bath… he wants his […]
A few weeks ago when our Summer Reading Program, “It’s Showtime At Your Library!” officially began, we held a LEGO Stop-Motion animation workshop in our Central Library in the fourth floor studio. To prepare for this program, I read up about stop motion animation using one of the library’s books: […]
Kids 9-12 years old came to the library for a three-day program last week to make book trailers about their favorite books. These trailers were all created using iPads with the iMovie app, though we also tried some other movie editing software too. Most of the photos the kids used […]
Books We Shared Books for preschoolers have become shorter and shorter over the years, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but sometimes it’s nice to find one like this book, published thirteen years ago. It’s long enough and juicy enough with the language that I feel like the kids really […]
Books We Shared We read Chugga-chugga Choo-choo by Kevin Lewis with pictures by Daniel Kirk, in which toys act out the busyness and work of a train coming into the station. I don’t always do this, but sometimes I have a book from home that really works with my theme […]
Books We Shared We read Chugga-chugga Choo-choo by Kevin Lewis with pictures by Daniel Kirk, in which toys act out the busyness and work of a train coming into the station. I don’t always do this, but sometimes I have a book from home that really works with my theme […]