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]
Winter for Babies Storytime
Winter for Babies Storytimes for babies and toddlers offer an opportunity to model great read-aloud techniques for parents and gives them the confidence to read to their children every day. A baby-toddler storytime can be [continue reading]
African-American Music Celebration
African-American Music (revised) There are many great picture books on music with African-American characters; this would be a great theme for Black History Month or anytime! For a craft project, make an African drum: [continue reading]
Trees for Babies Storytime
Trees for Babies Storytimes for babies and toddlers offer an opportunity to model great read-aloud techniques for parents and gives them the confidence to read to their children every day. A baby-toddler storytime can be [continue reading]
Telephone Storytime
Telephone (revised) Kindergartners are asked to learn a parent’s phone number as one of the first tasks when they begin school. To help them prepare for kindergarten, hold a Telephone-themed storytime. For an art [continue reading]