Pasadena Public Library
We had a wonderful time reading books about birds during Infant Storytime last Tuesday. We also talked to Henrietta (our library hen), sang songs, shared nursery rhymes and had fun with a number of bounces. Halfway through our storytime we heard a loud, CLUCK, CLUCK, CLUCK and voila! Henrietta managed […]
We had fun this morning with Angie Donkin, dancing with scarves, playing shaker eggs, singing with finger puppets and a little purple puppet named Monster! Dance and Play: Old King Cole: Don Alfredo: If you’d like to find more of Angie’s music for little ones, please check out her YouTube […]
Today our theme was intended to be about audience participation and recapping past songs and rhymes. I printed out some of the songs we’ve done in the past, and put a couple of new ones on there. I put up a display of some of the books we read in […]
Today we met a turkey, and then met all of his friends from the farm! Books We Shared I Spy on the Farm by Edward Gibbs invites kids to guess each animal with three clues: the color of the animal, the first letter of its name, and the sound the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In my last email, I invited everyone to come to storytime in a costume if they’d like. There were many adorable and creative costumes! Here are some group photos I took: Books We Shared Our first book for Infant Storytime was one I think I might have bought from the […]
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. 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 […]