Three cute ones, and they all start with the letter T, in addition to being about tickling and teasing and tumbling around. I have way too much fun sometimes finding these sets of books.
Tweak Tweak
Eve Bunting, illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier
ISBN: 9780618998517
Baby elephant goes Tweak Tweak on mama's tail every time they come across anything new and interesting. Mama is tolerant and gentle and explains the differences between what can and can't be done, while suggesting alternative actions that CAN be taken. Very gentle and illuminating, and the illustrations are just plain cute.
Tickle, Tickle
Helen Oxenbury
ISBN: 9780689819856 (board book format, ISBN not on book itself)
Oxenbury crafts a cute but VERY short book with diverse babies and young toddlers all getting tickled and having fun. Sweet.
Tumble Bumble
Felicia Bond
ISBN: 9781886910157 (make sure to get the original hardcover, not the board book - it's sooo tiny)
Bears and alligators and cats and pigs and frogs and mice and bugs and one little boy Oh My! It's a tumble-bumble world for these animals as they bumble through the streets and through a house and into bed. Excellent "scaffolding" story, and lots of fun language.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Tuesday Storytime: Fish Tales
Some weird and wacky and audience-responsive storytime books today, perfect for a big crowd with lots of bored older siblings and off-kilter schedules due to spring break week.
Paul Meets Bernadette
Rosy Lamb
ISBN: 9780763661304
Paul is a goldfish in a classic goldfish bowl (don't do that to your fish, kids) and he swims in circles: lots of different kinds of circles, but just circles. Until Bernadette "drops in" and he learns to look outside the fish bowl at the wide and wild world, which, in Bernadette's interpretations, is a bit wilder and more wonderful than perhaps it truly is. Parents enjoyed the subtext of falling in love, and kids LOVED Bernadette being wrong about everything.
Poor Little Guy
Elanna Allen
ISBN: 9780525428251
Is there such a thing a "aqua-toned"? because if so, the only "color" in our aqua toned book is our small yellow protagonist, the assumed "poor little guy" who is not enjoying his role in a series of bullying games played by a hungry octopus. Unfortunately for the octopus, our protagonist is a puffer fish, and the "poor little guy" becomes clear at the end. Make sure to check out the end-pages here, and be aware that the first five or so spreads are wordless, so be prepared to improvise narration or to ask the audience for their input.
I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean
Kevin Sherry
ISBN: 9780803731929
Our really enthusiastic (and frankly a bit annoying and childlike) protagonist here is a bright blue giant squid, who is just thrilled to be bigger than all the things he points out in the ocean, until he is resting complacently in his bigness and something else comes by. Without spoiling, he is NOT the biggest thing in the ocean, but he does find something new to be enthusiastic about in his altered situation at the end of the book.
Paul Meets Bernadette
Rosy Lamb
ISBN: 9780763661304
Paul is a goldfish in a classic goldfish bowl (don't do that to your fish, kids) and he swims in circles: lots of different kinds of circles, but just circles. Until Bernadette "drops in" and he learns to look outside the fish bowl at the wide and wild world, which, in Bernadette's interpretations, is a bit wilder and more wonderful than perhaps it truly is. Parents enjoyed the subtext of falling in love, and kids LOVED Bernadette being wrong about everything.
Poor Little Guy
Elanna Allen
ISBN: 9780525428251
Is there such a thing a "aqua-toned"? because if so, the only "color" in our aqua toned book is our small yellow protagonist, the assumed "poor little guy" who is not enjoying his role in a series of bullying games played by a hungry octopus. Unfortunately for the octopus, our protagonist is a puffer fish, and the "poor little guy" becomes clear at the end. Make sure to check out the end-pages here, and be aware that the first five or so spreads are wordless, so be prepared to improvise narration or to ask the audience for their input.
I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean
Kevin Sherry
ISBN: 9780803731929
Our really enthusiastic (and frankly a bit annoying and childlike) protagonist here is a bright blue giant squid, who is just thrilled to be bigger than all the things he points out in the ocean, until he is resting complacently in his bigness and something else comes by. Without spoiling, he is NOT the biggest thing in the ocean, but he does find something new to be enthusiastic about in his altered situation at the end of the book.
Monday, April 10, 2017
Tuesday Storytime: Bathtime
Found a very cute picture book, and just couldn't resist building a storytime around it.
Bears in the Bath
Shirley Parenteau, illustrated by David Walker
ISBN: 9780763664183
Pastel colored baby bears all have great fun in their various activities, getting quite messy in their individually rhyming ways, until Big Brown Bear (identified as a he in the book, but easily adaptable) drags them all squirming back to the tub to clean off, with Big Brown Bear getting equally messy as a result, and needing a bath as well.
Time for a Bath
Phillis Gershator, illustrated by David Walker
ISBN: 9781454910329
Yeah I know, I try not to have duplicate illustrators or authors, but every once in a while it just seems inevitable. Once again in pastels, but this time at least pastels in greys and creams, with a baby bunny who gets oh so dirty, no matter what he and mommy bunny do. What else is there to do but take a nice bath after every activity? Short, sweet, and rhyming.
The Pigeon Needs a Bath!
Mo Willems
ISBN: 9781423190875
I do love Mo Willems, but I tend to try and avoid his books for storytime, because I feel like he's one of the few modern picture book writers who end up being known well enough that kids will come across either Pigeon, Elephant and Piggie, or Knuffle Bunny all on their own, and I can use my platform to show off lesser-known but equally excellent books. Still, when you have a perfect fit, you have a perfect fit, and the Pigeon definitely fits. He is QUITE dirty, and determined not to take a bath, for various excellent toddler-style reasons. Of course he changes his mind in the end, but the persuading is most of the fun.
Bears in the Bath
Shirley Parenteau, illustrated by David Walker
ISBN: 9780763664183
Pastel colored baby bears all have great fun in their various activities, getting quite messy in their individually rhyming ways, until Big Brown Bear (identified as a he in the book, but easily adaptable) drags them all squirming back to the tub to clean off, with Big Brown Bear getting equally messy as a result, and needing a bath as well.
Time for a Bath
Phillis Gershator, illustrated by David Walker
ISBN: 9781454910329
Yeah I know, I try not to have duplicate illustrators or authors, but every once in a while it just seems inevitable. Once again in pastels, but this time at least pastels in greys and creams, with a baby bunny who gets oh so dirty, no matter what he and mommy bunny do. What else is there to do but take a nice bath after every activity? Short, sweet, and rhyming.
The Pigeon Needs a Bath!
Mo Willems
ISBN: 9781423190875
I do love Mo Willems, but I tend to try and avoid his books for storytime, because I feel like he's one of the few modern picture book writers who end up being known well enough that kids will come across either Pigeon, Elephant and Piggie, or Knuffle Bunny all on their own, and I can use my platform to show off lesser-known but equally excellent books. Still, when you have a perfect fit, you have a perfect fit, and the Pigeon definitely fits. He is QUITE dirty, and determined not to take a bath, for various excellent toddler-style reasons. Of course he changes his mind in the end, but the persuading is most of the fun.
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