The PUBYAC listserv had a great storytime post recently – Baby Animal storytime! Thanks to Roberta L. Meyer, Youth Services Librarian at the Helen Matthes Library in Effingham, IL for this compilation.

BOOKS

• Animal surprises / Christopher Gunson
• Baby animals / Seymour Simon
• Baby beebee bird / Diane Redfield Massie
• Baby food / Saxton Freymann
• Baby seal / Aubrey Lang
• Cowgirl Rosie & her five baby bison / Stephen Gulbis
• Dawdle duckling / Toni Buzzeo
• Eaglet's world / Evelyn White Minshull
• Flamingo chick grows up / Joan Hewett
• Growing up wild : penguins / Sandra Markle
• Hush, little ones / by John Butler
• Hushabye Lily / Claire Freedman
• I kissed the baby / Mary Murphy
• I like it when / Mary Murphy
• I love you as much... / Laura Krauss Melmed
• I love you because you're you / Liza Baker
• Johnny Lion's book / Edith Thacher Hurd
• Jubela / Christina Kessler
• Kiss kiss / Margaret Wild
• Kitten's first full moon / Kevin Henkes
• Little brown hen's shower / Pamela Duncan Edwards
• Little engine that could : baby animals / Watty Piper
• Little Farmer Joe / Ian Whybrow
• Little wood duck / Brian Wildsmith
• Mole & the baby bird / Marjorie Newman
• Nap in a lap / Sarah Wilson
• Oops-a-Daisy / Claire Freedman
• Owl babies / Martin Waddell
• Project hippopotamus / Susan Ring
• Project polar bear / Jennifer Nault
• Quiet! / Paul Bright
• Sebastian lives in a hat / Thelma Catterwell
• Ten little babies (can use as flannelboard) / Gyo Fujikawa
• The Baby Duck books / Amy Hest
• The Gossie, Gertie, and Ollie books / Olivier Dunrea
• The Little Quack books / Lauren Thompson
• Tiger baby / Susi Bohdal
• Tough beginnings / Marilyn Singer
• What the baby hears / Laura Godwin
• Whose baby am I? / John Butler
• You are special, little one / Nancy Tafuri
• Babies on the go / Linda Ashman
• Egg-napped! / Marisa Montes
• Ollie / Olivier Dunrea
• Tippy-toe chick, go! / George Shannon

CRAFTS

Paper bag puppets (patterns can be found at www.enchantedlearning.com)

Easter chick, using the kids' handprints for wings. The pattern is from about.com.
To get it, go to familycrafts.about.com/cs/easterchicks/index.htm
and choose Easter Chick Handprint Craft.

GAME

Touching Game:
Wiggle your fingers; touch your chin.
That’s the way the game begins.
Touch your eyes; touch your knees.
Now pretend you’re going to sneeze.
Touch your hair; touch one ear.
Touch your two pink lips right here.
Touch your nose; touch your toes.
Turn around and sit right down.
Touch your elbows where they bend,
That’s the way this touch game ends.

August 24, 2003