Posts Tagged "storytime"

I’m doing some vicarious traveling this evening. The theme for tonight’s storytime is vacation. I have some old favorites as well as some new to me picture books in my storytime bag. I’m also bringing some paper airplane templates so that we can make some after our stories are done. As I write this my parents are down at Disney World with the grandkids along with my sister and brother-in-law. (I’m curious to see if everyone will still be on speaking terms by week’s end.) Even as late as an hour or so before they left my father told me it wasn’t too late for me to change my mind and join them. I decided not to take him up on that offer. My dad is the sort of person who vacations with organized file folders detailing his itinerary...

I woke up this morning to a pretty thick blanket of snow on the ground. We’ve had a few snowstorms this season, but this one was the biggest so far. It was enough to give all the kids around here a snow day, but as my friend Sam points out even grown ups get to enjoy snow days once in awhile. I had been scheduled to do a storytime at the library this evening, and my theme appropriately enough was winter and snow. While those snowy stories would have been perfect for today, something tells me there wouldn’t have been any brave souls venturing out tonight for some stories at the library. Besides, with all the sledding I saw going on this afternoon, the kids would have probably been too tired to stay awake for an evening storytime. My snow day was mostly...

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...