Over the next few months, this column will feature some storytime themes that go along with the Be Creative @ Your Library summer reading program theme for 2009. To me, creativity can be many things, especially anything to do with fine arts or the imagination.

This month, we will celebrate : Acting, Singing and Photography.

Below is a list of books submitted by a member of the PUBYAC listserv, that focus on photography. For an activity; you can make picture frames to take home: www.kids-rooms-and-crafts.com/crafts-for-kids.html . This is a frame made from popsicle sticks; you can also try the frame made from a CD cover but I think that craft is too difficult for preschoolers.

• BENJAMIN'S PORTRAIT by Alan Baker
• CLASS PICTURE DAY by Andrea Buckless
• PICTURES FROM OUR VACATION by Lynne Rae Perkins
• FLOTSAM by David Wiesner
• KNUFFLE BUNNY by Mo Willems
• ADVENTURES OF COW, ADVENTURES OF COW TOO by Lori Korckek
• HERE A FACE, THERE A FACE by Arlene Alda
• WHERE IS COCO GOING by Sloane Tanen
• COCO ALL YEAR ROUND by Sloane Tanen
• LOST IN THE WOODS by Carl R. Sams
• P IS FOR PEANUT: A PHOTOGRAPHIC ABC by Lisa Gelber
• CLOSE, CLOSER, CLOSEST by Shelley Rotner
• SENSES AT THE SEASHORE by Shelley Rotner
• DANCE by Bill T. Jones
• CAN YOU GUESS? by Margaret Miller
• WHOSE HAT? by Margaret Miller
• WHERE DOES IT GO? by Margaret Miller
• THE MOON WAS BEST by Charlotte Zolotow
• BREAD BREAD BREAD by Ann Morris
• WEEKEND GIRL by Amy Hest
• SNOWBALL by Nina Crews
• MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB by Hale
• GIRLS HOLD UP THIS WORLD by Jada Pinkett Smith
• ONE HOT SUMMER DAY by Nina Crews
• I'LL CATCH THE MOON by Nina Crews
• SMILING by Gwenyth Swain
• TWO EYES, A NOSE, AND A MOUTH by Roberta Grobel Intrater
• SHADES OF BLACK: A CELEBRATION OF OUR CHILDREN by Sandra L. Pinkney
• BROWN SUGAR BABIES by Charles R. Smith, Jr.
• PLAY DAY: A BOOK OF TERSE VERSE by Bruce McMillan
• ARLENE ALDA'S 1 2 3: WHAT DO YOU SEE? by Arlene Alda
• MY BIG BROTHER by Valerie Fisher






Penny Peck,
San Leandro Public Library
February, 2009