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.
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