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Storytime Theme: Drums
I started this lesson plan focusing on musical instruments and as I began selecting books, I found a lot of drum books, so I switched gears and focused just on drums. This is a great storytime to talk to kids about rhythm and patterns and to practice those ideas with…
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16 Modern Picture Books That Feel Like Classics
I’m really excited about this list today! I spend a lot of time on this blog sharing books that are silly, brightly colored, and interactive, anything to catch a little one’s eye, for them to take just a moment to open it up and discover the power of a story.…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Fantasy Middle Grade for a Non-Fantasy Reader
Please let me explain this very extensive title for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday blog post! Today was a genre freebie for the theme which means I could pick any genre to explore. While I typically choose genres I absolutely adore (like historical fiction!), I decided to go a different…
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Storytime Theme: Sisters
My sister is a few years younger than I am, but we shared a room growing up and we talk on the phone twice a week now that we live across the country from each other. She’s definitely one of my best friends and someone I can count on in…
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Great Books for Fans of the Bad Guys
The Bad Guys series is laugh out loud funny and I know this for a fact. I was spending a few days at my parents’ house and my niece and nephew stayed over for a sleepover and we were reading aloud the first book in the The Bad Guys series…
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Storytime Theme: Unexpected
Sometimes it’s fun to create a surprising and unexpected storytime theme for toddlers and preschoolers! Today’s lesson plan is all about surprising or unexpected storylines, characters, and settings! Whether you’re trying to get a certain bear’s hat back or being brave even if you’re not quite sure what a mouse…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Beach Reads
It’s a beach reads week at Top Ten Tuesday and I’m loving contemporary romances – they’re just like chick flicks, easy to watch/read and you know everything is going to work out in the end! Today’s list is full of romance stories that take place at the beach and are…
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Storytime Theme: Thanksgiving
It’s time for another holiday storytime! And this time we’re focusing on Thanksgiving. And while I know Thanksgiving is fraught with a difficult past, I wanted to create a storytime that shared both the importance of learning history and also sharing some fun stories that are just silly. I found…
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Favorite Classic Christmas Stories
While it might be too early for most people to think about Christmas, there is such as thing as Christmas in July and I figured it was the perfect time to share some of my favorite classic Christmas stories! These were all books that we had growing up and each…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set Around the Partition of India
I enjoy reading historical fiction to learn about time periods that have come before now. I especially enjoy learning about events and people that I don’t know much about. While there was a lot of time spent on World War II in school education, there was little discussed about what…
