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Storytime Theme: Big Machines
Things that go is a perennial favorite when it comes to storytime themes. So, make sure you’ve done a car theme, a train theme, a truck theme, a construction theme, and why not try a big machines theme that is very similar to a construction theme but could also include…
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Wings of Fire Read Alikes
While I may not be the first person to pick up a book with a dragon on the cover. I’m always surprised by how much I like the fantastical aspects of the stories when I read them. The Wings of Fire series is one of our most popular book series…
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Storytime Theme: Reading
A favorite pastime of mine and probably many of the people who perform storytimes – reading! Share the joy of books, reading, and libraries with tiny readers with this free lesson plan filled with great read aloud stories, some fun songs and rhymes, and a couple of activities that are…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To
While today’s prompt is 2024 Releases I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To, there are so many books I haven’t gotten to yet! So, I decided to create a list of ten middle grade titles that I really want to read and even have some of these…
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Storytime Theme: Pride Month
I love centering a Pride Month storytime around families the way a lot of these books do! Because as one of the books is called Love Makes a Family and families come in all sorts of different ways. This storytime lesson plan is a great way to support families in…
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Storytime Theme: Soup
As I type this up, the snow is falling and I’ve already been outside once to clear the driveway, sidewalks, and car. With a few more inches expected before bedtime, I thought today would be the perfect day to make a stew that simmers all afternoon as the smells float…
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Storytime Theme: Tacos
Probably one of my family’s favorite meals – tacos! This is a storytime lesson plan love letter to them. And with a variety of food sensitivities and paticularities, tacos are the perfect food. They can be vegetarian, gluten-free, lactose-free, etc. Every year on the Friday after Thanksgiving my family gathers…
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Top Ten Tuesday: New-To-Me Authors in 2024
These new to me authors almost all wrote exclusively contemporary romance a genre that I’m enjoying post COVID as an escape from the real world where I know that even when there’s a kerfuffle, eveything is going to have a happy ending. Some of these are the first in a…
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Storytime Theme: Sweets
This is probably one of the tastiest storytime themes I’ve done and I think most kids would probably agree! And while you could totally go the route of Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal that really celebrates eating your veggies in the end (spoiler alert!), this theme really is just…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 2025 YA Books
While today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme was “The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection” I’m not a person that buys a lot of books for my own collection. Being a library director, I borrow the majority of my books from the library as I’m very much running out…
