This month, we celebrate aliens! For a simple craft project, make these alien paper bag puppets: www.dltk-holidays.com/halloween/malienpuppet.htm Agee, Jon. Life on Mars. An astronaut finds an alien on Mars. Duffield, Katy. Aliens Get the Sniffles, [continue reading]
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Puppets Storytime
2019 Summer Reading Theme “It’s Showtime at Your Library” – Puppets Puppet shows are often the first live professional entertainment that a young child will experience. Let’s celebrate with the following picture books that focus [continue reading]
Planets Storytime
2019 Summer Reading Theme “A Universe of Stories” – Planets “A Universe of Stories’ is the 2019 theme for the Collaborative Summer Library Program, which is used by many libraries: www.cslpreads.org/. Space, astronomy, and [continue reading]
Actors Storytime
2019 Summer Reading Theme “It’s Showtime at Your Library” – Actors “It’s Showtime at Your Library” is the theme for iRead’s 2019 summer reading program, which is distributed for free to California libraries: www.ireadprogram.org/ and [continue reading]
Sing-Along Picture Books for Storytime – Revised
Sing-Along Picture Book Revised January 2019 Bateman, Donna M. Out on the Prairie. Bates, Ivan. Five Little Ducks. Bates, Katharine Lee. America the Beautiful: United We Stand. Berkner, Laurie. Monster Boogie. Berkner, Laurie. We Are [continue reading]
Interactive Books for Storytime – Revised
Pop-up, Flap, Tactile, and Interactive Books Revised January 2019 Byrne, Richard. This Book Just Ate My Dog! Caston, Jane. Can You Help Doug Find His Dog? Clarke, Jane. I Saw Anaconda: A Cumulative Lift-the-Flap Story. [continue reading]
Circular Picture Books for Storytime – Revised
Circular – such as Laura Numeroff’s If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (HarperCollins, 1985) or Jules Feiffer’s Back George (HarperCollins, 1999 Revised January 2019 Archer, Peggy, and Anne Wilsdorf. A Hippy-Hoppy Toad. Barnett, Mac. [continue reading]
Cumulative Picture Books for Storytime – Revised
Cumulative – such as The House That Jack Built by various authors, Don and Audrey Wood’s The Napping House (Harcourt, 1984), or Laura Thompson’s The Apple Pie That Papa Baked (S&S, 2007). Revised January 2019 [continue reading]