The theme for tonight’s storytime is creatures that live in or spend a lot of time in the water. It’s in keeping with the Make A Splash at Your Library Summer Reading theme and by expanding it to other water-loving creatures I can include things like whales, penguins and, as I pointed out on Facebook earlier today, my mother, who are not technically fish. Well, so the book about my Mom has not yet been written, but I did include some other water types in my selections.
I’m bringing along a nice stack of stories and depending on the patience of my attendees I’ll be reading some fish tales: The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen and Shark in the Dark by Peter Bentley. Then there’s a story about a snail and a whale called appropriately enough The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson. Penguins love the water too so I’ll be reading the classic Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester and one that’s new to me, Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. You can never go wrong with a Froggy book so on tonight’s agenda is Froggy Learns to Swim by Jonathan London. I found a fun and slightly more challenging counting book about a backyard pond called Splash! by Ann Jonas. Finally, I saved the gators for later with A Girl and Her Gator by Sean Bryan and Egad Alligator by Harriet Ziefert.
We’ll be tracing our hands to make our own octopi, and since some smart aleck will likely point out that alligators (update: thank you, Sarah, for picking up on this goof. I have yet to meet any 8-tentacled alligators, and I don’t want to either!) octopi have 8 tentacles and not 5, I will explain that our pictures will be all a matter of perspective. Those other 3 tentacles are simply hiding behind the other 5.
I hope that tonight’s storytime as well as your day goes swimmingly!
My Books
Good luck tonight. And I love the drawing! It’s a very cute idea.
Sarah
Thanks, Sarah, and thanks also for your sharp eyes!
I hope the kids enjoyed the fishy and splashy stories!
I recently learned about the Froggy books from a young storytime attendee. Now I’m working my way through the whole Froggy oeuvre.
Thanks, Debbie! I think they did. They also told me a fishy story of their own about a trip to the beach. It was related in typical kid fashion so I’m not entirely sure what happened but apparently there was a lot of splashing and a dead crab.
Kathy: Froggy rocks! We have a little froggy sign (Just the word Frogggggy in that reddish orange font on a popsicle stick) that we hold up every time Froggy’s Mom calls him so that all the kids (and the parents) can shout along with her. It’s a lot of fun!
I love reading to kids!! Have a great time. Great theme.
I love the picture! That sounds like a fun way to spend your day.
Thanks, Paul!
Thanks, Heather, and it is a lot of fun!