Category: classic picture books
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The Freedom to Be Totally Ignorant
“I’m not afraid anymore so go for it.” — Jane Elliot The Oprah episode above aired in 1992. Jane Elliott first did her blue eyes/brown eyes experiment the day after MLK was assassinated. (Note, that transcript contains offensive racial terms.) (If you’re not familiar, in brief, Jane did a lesson in prejudice with her class…
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Picture it: a program
Do you want a program that you can do at your library that is: intergenerational? collaborative? creative? involves multiple departments, including tech services? celebrates picture books and novels? Well, here it is: Buy a bunch of blank books from Bare Books. They have paperbacks, picture books, graphic novels, board books–all of them blank and ready…
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See You Later, Alligator
I’ve just started a new “stop the summer slide” session of Beginning Reader Storytime, the first time I’ve presented this program at my new library (it’s still new to me, really, even after almost two years here). For this community, I made this program drop-in, and the ages are entering K to entering 2nd grade…
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Colorlicious Tea Party Storytime Special
Want to cash in on the super-popularity of Pinkalicious but don’t want to alienate boys (or, more likely, the parents of boys)? Then throw a Colorlicious party instead! Fans will still get to enjoy the sublime Pinkalicious, but with a bit of variety to cut the cloying gender paradigm. Here’s the program we presented at…
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Storytime Specials
About every other month at my library we present what we call a Storytime Special, which is a 45 minute program for 4-8 year olds that includes stories, a treat and a craft centered around a theme. I like to use these programs to stretch stories in different ways, or to give the kids and…
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Beginning Readers Storytime: Art Adventure
After having my Beginning Readers Storytime for several sessions, I began to feel a familiar feeling: boredom. I was bored. I needed something new, exciting, thrilling. I needed to challenge myself. Yet, I am not completely insane. The program was popular and well-attended, and people looked forward to it. I didn’t want to sabotage that.…
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meow mix
For this storytime, you need: 1 cat puppet 1 copy of There are Cats in the Book 1 copy of Cat Secrets Any other cat picture books that strike your fancy, especially ones that detail cat behavior. 1 copy of Hide and Seek with Grover if you want to go the meta route. With this…
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gifts to you from my reader feed
Textbook. Characters from literature, film, ballet, and even songs are dressed in contemporary fashion. I found this via bookshelves of doom. If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats. Historical ephemera. Often pictures, sometimes audio; always interesting. Bookie Woogie: Three Kids and their Dad Talk About Books. It’s nice to…
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