Pasadena Public Library
The winter session of Toddler storytime is underway and our theme for the first meeting was BUILDING! We talked about the letter B and the many words that start with B (including the word building), read books about building with blocks and bricks, and had lots of fun singing songs that revolved around dump […]
For our last toddler storytime of the Fall Session, we kicked off a new season with stories about snow. Books We Shared Bear & Hare: Snow! Bear and Hare go outside one day and find snow! Hare loves snow, but Bear is not so sure. Will Bear come around? Snowy […]
Happy Belated Thanksgiving everyone! Hope yours was fun, satisfying and restful. Here’s how we celebrated with stories at last weeks Toddler Storytime Books We Shared Over the River and Through the Wood: A Song for Thanksgiving by Lydia Maria Child, pictures by Nadine Bernard Westcott This is a fun visual […]
It may not be raining in sunny Southern California yet, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate rainy weather in storytime! Books We Shared In The Rainy Day Puddle by Ei Nakabayashi, a little frog finds a puddle that is the perfect size for him. But as the rain keeps falling, so […]
Happy Halloween! It was such a delight to see what the toddlers dressed-up as for today: Books We Shared Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin written by Mary Serfozo, illustrated by Valeria Petrone Peter the tiger is searching for the perfect pumpkin. But why? This book with it’s bright illustrations […]
Our third Toddler Storytime for this Fall session was a quack up — all about ducks! Books We Shared Come Along, Daisy! by Jane Simmons Mama Duck warns little Daisy to stay close to her, but Daisy is distracted by the dragonflies, a frog, and all the fun around […]
When families flocked to our second toddler storytime of the Fall session, they heard a storytime all about sheep! Books We Shared Lauren Thompson’s Wee Little Lamb, illustrated by John Butler, is about a newborn lamb who is very shy. he doesn’t want to venture far from his mother, […]
We snuck “into the woods” for our preschool storytime on Saturday. We read a story about two teddy bears who were “lost in the woods”, followed a group of children “into the woods” as they searched for a moose, and were introduced to some very strange night animals “living in the woods”. Sound silly to you? Maybe just […]
In July we launched a new program: “Art & Play” for children ages 2-6. One Monday morning each month, we focus on “process art”. With process art the fun is all in the doing, there are no rules; it involves exploration and tactile learning with no specific outcome. In the end you […]
We had lots of fun during our preschool storytime last Saturday! Whales snuck into each of our stories – whales that grew too large to keep in the bathtub, whales with advice and whales that appeared in a great “messterpiece” created by an “ocean” artist. Sound strange? Maybe. But remember, nothing’s impossible […]