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 […]
Preschool STEAM (for children ages 2-6) is all about having fun with science, technology, math and art! There is no right or wrong way for children to experiment – the fun and learning comes from the doing! Early childhood research shows us that little hands and minds learn best when at play. […]
Preschool STEAM (for children ages 2-6) is all about having fun with science, technology, math and art! There is no right or wrong way for children to experiment – the fun and learning comes from the doing! Early childhood research shows us that little hands and minds learn best when at play. […]
What happens when you bring together 35 school age kids, a group of talented musicians, 27 guitars (electric and acoustic) and 5 keyboards? You get SCHOOL OF ROCK @ PPL!! For the second year in a row Pasadena Public library gave a group of kids (ages 10-16) a rock and […]
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 […]
Halloween is around the corner so we indulged in books about a pumpkin named Stumpkin and a monster who learns not to play with his food. We also shared a story activity that involved six white ghosts! Its never boring at storytime! Here are the books, songs, story activity, action rhymes […]