Posts Tagged "picture books"

I’m trying out a new theme for tonight’s storytime, books about television and movies. Sure books biggest competition may be the television, but that’s no reason we can’t have some fun with it. Of course, I almost gave up on the idea after I realized how difficult it was to search under the television subject heading at the library without getting a bunch of Disney spin off and Star Wars spin off books. I persevered, though, and put together a nice stack of fun stories. Here’s what will be in my bag of tricks tonight: Penny Lee and Her TV by Glenn McCoy Sock Monkey Goes to Hollywood by Cece Bell Charlie Hits it Big by Deborah Blumenthal, illustrated by Denise Brunkus Todd’s TV by James Proimos TV Rex by John Nickle A Song for...

Celestial bodies, which is really just a big way of saying the the sun, the moon and the stars is the theme for tonight’s storytime at the Pocono Township Library, in Tannersville, PA. In my bag of tricks for tonight’s reading are What the Sun Sees/What the Moon Sees by Nancy Tafuri, The Dog Who Loved the Moon by Cristina Garcia, Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes, Stars! Stars! Stars! by Bob Barner, How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers, Sun & Moon by Lisa Desimini, The Sun’s Day by Mordicai Gerstein, and Star Climbing by Lou Fancher. Had I miraculously figured out a way to bring my iPod back from the dead, I might have entertained the kids with one of my favorite They Might Be Giants tracks, “Why Does the Sun Shine?”...

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...

It’s been raining so much the past few days, that I just might be able to paddle my way to the library for storytime this  evening. That would be appropriate since tonight’s theme is boats, and that reminded me of this picture taken a few years ago: This was staged (we don’t regularly go on boat rides down the library stairs!) and taken for a bulletin board we put up when the summer reading theme was Get a Clue at Your Library. The bulletin board’s theme was library lawbreakers, and in case you were wondering the law being broken here is that universal library law, No Boating in the Library! Of course, it works just as well for this year’s summer reading theme, Make a Splash at Your Library, well except for the fact that...

My pouffy shirt is clean, and I’ve got a sack full of loot (great pictures books, that is) ready to go for my pirate-themed storytime tomorrow. Pirates being popular I wasn’t able to get all of my favorite pirate stories, but here are some treasures I’ll be bringing with me: Dirty Joe the Pirate by Bill Harley, illustrated by Jack E. Davis Pirates Don’t Change Diapers by Melinda Long, illustrated by David Shannon Blackbeard: Pirate for Hire by Matthew McElligot You Can Do Anything, Daddy! by Michael Rex Peg Leg Peke by Brie Spangler The No-Good Do-Good Pirates by Jim Kraft, illustrated by Lynne Avril Don’t Mention Pirates by Sarah McConnell and Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DiCamillo and Harry Bliss Do you have a...