Month: July 2014
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Last week I did a post on the best preschool read a louds. Below is a companion post on what I consider to be the best books for toddler storytime. I have always found storytime for the 2 year old crowd to be a bit more challenging. At our library, toddler time is 10…
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The Plot in 5 Sentences Or Less: Each of the fifth graders in Mr. Terupt’s class at Snow Hill School has a story. Jessica, for instance, just moved across country with her mother to get away from her dad, while Alexia is intent upon spreading gossip throughout the class in order to start a war…
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We all have our storytime favorites. After 8 years as a children’s librarian, I have a selection that I return to again and again that always work in front of a preschool crowd. 1) Let’s Play in the Forest While the Wolf is Not Around by Rueda The animals in the forest are scared of the wolf until they…
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The Plot in 5 Sentences or Less: Alfred Bunce and his apprentice Birdie work in Victorian era London as boglers, a kind of early ghostbusters that traps and kills nasty monsters and demons that haunt the dark places in cities and eat children. Their boggling business runs smoothly enough until the high class folklorist Miss…
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