12
Feb
An Awesome Book of Love!
An Awesome Book of Love! by Dallas Clayton Find it at: Your Library | Amazon | IndieBound Published: HarperCollins (December 2012) Recommended Reading Age: 3 & up In a nutshell: Love is in the air. Valentine’s Day is near. Pink and red and hearts all over. Or if you’re Dallas Clayton, the author of An […]
11
Feb
Chinese New Year Storytime
新年快樂 Happy Chinese New Year! The most important Chinese holiday for the year, the Lunar New Year, started yesterday and will go on for the next 15 days. I have an extreme fondness of Chinese holidays and have many Chinese parents and families that regularly attend Sunday storytime, so having a Chinese New Year storytime […]
5
Feb
Reading Together
***Reading Together is a sampling of books I’m currently reading aloud to L, my toddler daughter. Since I work in the children’s room of a public library, I’m always bringing home stacks and stacks of books to share together. Old and new. These are our favorites. Some of which have been read over and over […]
21
Jan
I Have a Dream
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr, illustrated by Kadir Nelson Find it at: Your library | Amazon| Indiebound Published: Schwartz & Wade an imprint of Random House Children’s Books; Har/Com edition (October 9, 2012) Recommended Reading Age: All ages In a nutshell: Today is a day we honor and remember one of […]
20
Jan
You Are Stardust
You Are Stardust by Elin Kelsy, artwork by Soyeon Kim Find it at: Your Library | Amazon | Indiebound Published: Owlkids Books (September 11, 2012) Recommended Reading Age: 4 & up In a nutshell: You Are Stardust explores the cosmological concept that essentially everything in the universe came from stardust, a concept simplified through […]
9
Jan
Reading Together
***Reading Together is a sampling of picture books I’m currently reading aloud to L, my toddler daughter. Since I work in the children’s room of a public library, I’m always bringing home stacks and stacks of books to share together. Old and new. These are our favorites. Some of which have been read over and […]
3
Jan
Throwback Thursday: Numbears
Numbears: A Counting Book By Kathleen Hague, Illustrated by Michael Hague Find it at: Your Library | Amazon | Indiebound Published: Henry Holt and Co. an imprint of Macmillian (May 1986) My husband was recently having a conversation with his twin sister about a book that has plagued them since early childhood: Numbears: A Counting […]
17
Dec
Snowman Storytime
In light of the upcoming winter season, all the wonderful snowman stories our library houses, and my own daughter’s recent obsession with “Frosty the Snowman”, the last storytime theme of the year was “Snowman Storytime”. We read a few popular snowman picture books and then made melt-proof snowmen/women/pets inspired by Lois Elhert’s collage art […]
12
Dec
Reading Together: Christmas Stories
Originally I wasn’t going post about Christmas books for the latest edition of Reading Together, but I was looking over the books L and I have been reading together the most lately and the large majority are (surprise!) Christmas books. Looks like it was inevitable. I’ve included a few brand new favorites, tried and true […]
10
Dec
Winter Storytime
As I type this blog post it is a mere 25 degrees Fahrenheit in Lawrence, Kansas. Winter is coming. Even though winter officially begins on December 21st of this year, I thought the storytime kids and I would get a jump start on the season with Winter Storytime. Winter Storytime Line-up: Here Comes Jack Frost […]
