Try a storytime on horses, pet and animal storytimes are always a big hit! For a craft activity, make these horse finger puppets using a toilet paper roll.
Hubbell, Patricia. HORSES: TROTTING! PRANCING! RACING! Lively rhyming couplets describe facts about horses, including the many jobs they do.
Lester, Alison. NONI THE PONY. Noni the pony enjoys farm life with a cat and dog in this rhyming story.
Rash, Andy. ARE YOU A HORSE? After receiving a saddle for his birthday, Roy goes around asking various animals and things if they are horses in this comic story reminiscent of Are You My Mother?
Smee, Nicola. CLIP-CLOP. Cat, Dog, Pig, and Duck implore Horse for a raucous ride in this hilarious participation story.
Smee, Nicola. SPLISH-SPLASH. In this follow up to Clip-Clop, Horse takes his smaller farm friends on a boat ride.
Stein, David Ezra. COWBOY NED & ANDY. Horse Andy searches the desert for a birthday cake for Ned.
Wilson, Karma. HORSEPLAY! The farmer tries to get his rowdy horses to settle down and go to sleep in this rhyming story.
Yolen, Jane. HUSH, LITTLE HORSIE. A rhyming celebration where the mama horse assures her foal that she will watch over him.
Also see the previous Horses storytime ideas page from February 2006.