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 […]
Storytime: Frogs!
Published on :In lieu of today’s planned eStorytime, we had a regular storytime with books and music in a frogs theme. (Our network for the iPads was down.) First we read The Big Wide-Mouthed Frog by Ana Martín Larrañaga. Wide-mouthed frog goes around bragging about how big his mouth is and what […]
Getting your stories published
Published on :Our Kids’ Writing Workshop met today and learned all about the publishing process. To make things really easy and visual for them, I put together a packet of samples. A lot of beginning writers (especially kids) don’t understand what a good submission packet looks like and may get undue rejections […]
Family Storytime: The Fair!
Published on :Today the library wraps up our 130th Anniversary celebration with an Old Time Fair in the library parking lot! It’s from 12 until 4 pm and there will be lots of great food and activities for the whole family, all FREE! Our storytime was also about fairs. We started with […]
Family Storytime: Halloween!
Published on :We started our Halloween-themed storytime by talking about what costumes we wore for Halloween, then we sang a song using the book If You’re a Monster and You Know It by Rebecca and Ed Emberley. I love the action and movement prompts in this colorful book. Then we […]
Kids’ Writing Workshop: Write This Book by Pseudonymous Bosch
Published on :Today the Kids’ Writing Workshop wrote exercises from Write This Book by Pseudonymous Bosch! Bosch (is that his REAL name??) will be coming to Pasadena on Dec. 13. Everybody got a “Save the Date” to help mark their calendars. He writes hilarious mysteries for kids and has a new book coming out […]
Family Storytime: Dads!
Published on :Today’s family storytime was about Dads! “What?” you ask. “Father’s Day was three months ago!” Well, some really great books about Dads came out recently and I have been wanting to share them, and figured, Why should I wait for an excuse? You never need an excuse to share a […]
Writing Workshop with Kristen Kittscher
Published on :I have been so busy this summer that I haven’t been able to take the time I’d really like to write blogs showing what’s going on at our programs. Here is a much-belated post I’ve been meaning to write about the wonderful kids’ writing workshop we recently had with middle […]
Foxy Finds a New Home!
Published on :Congratulations, Foxy, and we hope you’ll be very happy with your new owner, Grace! Grace was the winner of our grand prize drawing for the Central Library mascot, Foxy! Thanks to all the kids who joined our Summer Reading Challenge! We hope you join us again next year!
Preschool Storytime: Yes Day
Published on :Today’s storytime was all about the all-too-common experience kids have of not always getting their way or being told what or what not to do. We started with a song and read the book Yes Day! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld. This is a book about one day […]