Pasadena Public Library
Books We Shared Go! Go! Go! Stop! by Charise Mericle Harper reimagines traffic lights and gives them a story, about a traffic light who could only say “Go!” and who needed the help of another to say “Stop!” In McToad Mows Tiny Island by Tom Angleberger and illustrated by John […]
Last week our Kids’ Writing Workshop focused on hidden histories and flash fiction, to help kids develop entries for our 2019 Young Reader’s League Writing Contest. The theme of the contest is “Hidden Histories” and the maximum length is 300 words–which is much shorter than it sounds! So for this […]
Books We Shared Charlie Rides by Bob Bianchini is about a boy enjoying all kinds of vehicles with his Dad! It’s unclear whether the protagonist of Love is a Truck by Amy Novesky and Sara Gillingham is a boy or a girl–but it’s not important. What is clear is that […]
Books We Shared Charlie Rides by Bob Bianchini is about a boy enjoying all kinds of vehicles with his Dad! It’s unclear whether the protagonist of Love is a Truck by Amy Novesky and Sara Gillingham is a boy or a girl–but it’s not important. What is clear is that […]
For today’s storytime we learned about parts of the body. I asked each toddler to point to different parts of a teddy bear’s body on their way in. So they were already practicing the words for ears, eyes, nose, arms, feet, head, etc. even before storytime started! Books We Shared […]
For today’s storytime we learned about parts of the body. Books We Shared Hey Little Baby by Heather Leigh and illustrated by Genevieve Cote has a nice message, asking the baby in the story what he will do with his marvelous hands, where he will go with his feet, what […]
Today we read about baby animals and the kids got to meet a cute kangaroo puppet and her joey! Books We Shared Next To You: A Book of Adorableness, by Lori Haskins Houran and pictures by Sydney Hanson, gives a laundry list of cute, big-eyed, fluffy baby animals and explains […]
On Saturday, August 31st we had a reception honoring the winners and honorable mentions of our Art and Writing Contests. This year’s theme was “Fractured Films,” fitting with our Summer Reading theme, “It’s Showtime at Your Library!” We got beautiful art and writing entries that were inspired by films, but […]
Read the story that won 1st Place in the Children’s Category for our Fractured Films Writing Contest–a Triassic take on the movie “Jurassic Park” written by Joel Mason Griffin! The judges loved the action and suspense, and I think you will, too! […]
Read the story that won 2nd Place in our Fractured Films Writing Contest–a fairytale take on the Avengers (or an Avengers take on fairytales!) written by an amazing duo of writer brothers: Diego and Mateo Fernández! Action-packed and a delight to read, see for yourself why it placed! […]