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Sensory-Friendly Storytime: Sneezing
We’ve been on a pretty long break from our story times, here at the library. Don’t get me wrong, there has been plenty of story times for the holidays and a lot of special guests will be coming to visit in the next couple of weeks, but I’ve had a…
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Red Sled
Red Sled by Lita Judge is a perfect story to share with a little one on a cold winter night. Using only onomatopoeia words, or words that are used to describe sounds, Judge can tell an entire story of what happens to a red sled while a child is sleeping. …
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The Black Book of Colors
This is probably one of the most interesting picture books I have ever seen! A quick story before I continue on: I volunteered at a summer camp for children with visual impairments and each child was different – from those who were completely blind, to those who could differentiate light…
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Penguin and Pinecone
“One day Penguin found a curious object.” And so begins this beautiful story of friendship between a penguin and that curious object – a pinecone! Salina Yoon has created such a cute world with her whimsical illustrations and simple text about what it means to be a friend. I don’t…
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Story Time Theme – Grandparents
This was my last week of story times for the fall season and I decided it was high time we celebrated grandparents. My grandparents live half-way across the country and I don’t get to see them as much as I would like. Plus they are getting older and as their…
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Press Here
Press Here by Herve Tullet is an amazing book that works well both one-on-one as well as with a group. I actually used this book for a story time with some trepidation, worrying if all the toddlers would rush towards me wanting to “press here.” But instead, we got a wonderfully…
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Vote for Me!
I don’t pretend to be a political person, I’m not even a fan of discussing politics due to the way most people seem to forget how to have a civilized conversation when discussing politics. But due to the fact that election day just happened, I figured I should at least…
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Story Time Theme – Spots and Stripes
This week’s story time theme was so fun! We had a great time with spots and stripes, we began with an oldie, but goodie – Harry the Dirty Dog by, Gene Zion. This is a perfect story to talk about spots because Harry changes from a white dog with black…
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Story Time Theme – Orange
This week’s story time theme is the color and the fruit – ORANGE! I have found that color themes are really easy to do because you can find a bunch of stories that incorporate a certain color. This fall I choses orange for the obivous reason that it works really…
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Story Time Theme – Teddy Bears
I am currently providing three different story times for my library – the first is what I call a toddler traditional story time for 2 – 3 1/2 year olds where we read stories, have fingerplays and dance to music, the second is a parachute story time for the same age…