Last week's storytime was done by my coworker, celebrating the last dregs of summer fun before school starts back up.
Ice Cream Summer
Peter Sís
Summer Days and Nights
Wong Herbert Yee
Maisy Goes on Vacation
Lucy Cousins
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Monday, August 14, 2017
Tuesday Storytime: Summer Daze
It's that lovely time between Summer Reading and fall, so it's almost like a second summer, where we aren't restricted to the summer reading theme. So that means lots of fun summery books.
Maisy Goes on Vacation
Lucy Cousins
ISBN: 9780763647520
Maisy the mouse goes on vacation to the beach, with the anticipation, packing, travel (a train ride in this case), and hotel stay all preceding a trip to the beach with friends.
Summer Days and Nights
Wong Herbert Yee
ISBN: 9780805090789
A tiny book that packs a great big nostalgic punch. Fuzzy grainy paintings appear summer-hazy as we follow a girl through a green and gold summer day into a warm cozy summer night of fireflies and late bedtimes. Very sweet and really attractive.
And Then Comes Summer
Tom Brenner, illustrated by Jaime Kim
ISBN: 9780763660710
This book is a straight-up When This Happens / Then This Happens, all on a summery theme. Very anticipatory, and lots of fun, as we follow through a set of summer activities (stereotypical or iconic, depending on how much you like summer rituals). We get fishing, parades, ice-cream trucks and camping, and more. Cute and vivacious.
Maisy Goes on Vacation
Lucy Cousins
ISBN: 9780763647520
Maisy the mouse goes on vacation to the beach, with the anticipation, packing, travel (a train ride in this case), and hotel stay all preceding a trip to the beach with friends.
Summer Days and Nights
Wong Herbert Yee
ISBN: 9780805090789
A tiny book that packs a great big nostalgic punch. Fuzzy grainy paintings appear summer-hazy as we follow a girl through a green and gold summer day into a warm cozy summer night of fireflies and late bedtimes. Very sweet and really attractive.
And Then Comes Summer
Tom Brenner, illustrated by Jaime Kim
ISBN: 9780763660710
This book is a straight-up When This Happens / Then This Happens, all on a summery theme. Very anticipatory, and lots of fun, as we follow through a set of summer activities (stereotypical or iconic, depending on how much you like summer rituals). We get fishing, parades, ice-cream trucks and camping, and more. Cute and vivacious.
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Tuesday Storytime: Gone Swimming
As the weather warms up, the chances of my storytime families getting involved in swimming lessons or simply trips to the pool goes way up. These are calming and ultimately fact-based "experiences" stories to help manage expectations and fears, and provide touch-points to reference later.
Maisy Learns to Swim
Lucy Cousins
ISBN: 9780763634800
Maisy is a popular mouse character done in faux naive childish style with heavy borders and bright colors. Like if someone did a Byron Barton book, but were a bit scribbly about it. In this particular installment, Maisy and her friends go to a swimming lesson, going through all the generally accepted motions thereupon. Everyone is excited and happy and successful, and the story ends with warm towels and hot showers.
Leo Can Swim
Anna McQuinn, illustrated by Ruth Hearson
ISBN:
9781580897259
Leo is Lola's little brother, and Lola is the Black protagonist of a set of slightly older-aimed experience books set in England. Those and Leo's books have only recently migrated across the pond, and I'm very glad they did. I love having poc in my stories, especially when that isn't the focus of the story. Here, Leo is obviously an infant, and he's attending baby swim class with his Daddy. (Also a great touch.) Once again all the general descriptive steps are there: from getting dressed to the different parts of the class to the shower and lotion and nap afterwards. Sweet sweet illustrations.
Sergio Makes a Splash
Edel Rodriguez
ISBN: 9780316066167
Sergio is a baby penguin, and his class takes their first field trip to the ocean, but Sergio can't swim. He's outfitted with swimmies, a lifejacket, and a swim ring, an encouraging teacher, enthusiastic friends, and a nicely-illustrated bit of positive self-talk, which I like to see modeled, so he's ready to tackle his fear. The ending is a BIT of a let-down, but it's still solid enough to be enjoyable.
Maisy Learns to Swim
Lucy Cousins
ISBN: 9780763634800
Maisy is a popular mouse character done in faux naive childish style with heavy borders and bright colors. Like if someone did a Byron Barton book, but were a bit scribbly about it. In this particular installment, Maisy and her friends go to a swimming lesson, going through all the generally accepted motions thereupon. Everyone is excited and happy and successful, and the story ends with warm towels and hot showers.
Leo Can Swim
Anna McQuinn, illustrated by Ruth Hearson
ISBN:
9781580897259
Leo is Lola's little brother, and Lola is the Black protagonist of a set of slightly older-aimed experience books set in England. Those and Leo's books have only recently migrated across the pond, and I'm very glad they did. I love having poc in my stories, especially when that isn't the focus of the story. Here, Leo is obviously an infant, and he's attending baby swim class with his Daddy. (Also a great touch.) Once again all the general descriptive steps are there: from getting dressed to the different parts of the class to the shower and lotion and nap afterwards. Sweet sweet illustrations.
Sergio Makes a Splash
Edel Rodriguez
ISBN: 9780316066167
Sergio is a baby penguin, and his class takes their first field trip to the ocean, but Sergio can't swim. He's outfitted with swimmies, a lifejacket, and a swim ring, an encouraging teacher, enthusiastic friends, and a nicely-illustrated bit of positive self-talk, which I like to see modeled, so he's ready to tackle his fear. The ending is a BIT of a let-down, but it's still solid enough to be enjoyable.
Monday, January 23, 2017
Tuesday Storytime: Bedtime Stories
There comes a time in all novice storytellers' development when they realize that the established routines of bedtime can be gleefully pilfered for storytime themes, and thus we have our trainee's first Bedtime Storytime theme. :)
Time to Say Goodnight
Sally Lloyd-Jones, illustrated by Jane Chapman
ISBN: 9780060543303
Forest animals in Chapman's sweet style all share bedtime rituals with their young ones.
Lovely sweet book, good length, lots of lovely animals (including some nighttime animals having a "breakfast" storytime) are all out in natural habitats, but at the end there's a bit of a twist, as the animals all turn to ask a question of the audience/reader, revealing a child in bed surrounded by stuffed forest animals, from the classic floppy bunny and stuffed bear to a mascot-looking cardinal and a beanie-baby-style deer. Rhyming quatrains on each spread make for a sweet lilting cadence, but some of the meter is a bit forced, and there are word-choices that caused some stumbles, despite preparations. Personally, I think I would have switched the places of this one and Close Your Eyes and had this one to close up with, but that's more individual taste than anything else.
Sweet Dreams, Maisy
Lucy Cousins
ISBN: 0763628743
Another in the everlasting Maisy series, this one tackles bedtime by verbalizing sweet general rituals.
Very short, and very Maisy, with colorblocked sections and wide shaky cartoon borders around everything. Maisy and Panda are getting ready for bed, and go through a quick run-down narrating the various comforting steps to sleep, from admiring the sunset and the rising moon, to bedtime stories and songs, to bedtime benedictions (from moon and stars, rather than any religious affiliation).
Close Your Eyes
Kate Banks, illustrated by Georg Hallensleben
ISBN: 9780374313821
A cute little sloppy-painted tiger cub tries in vain to avoid bedtime by listing all the things he'll miss, but his clever mother reminds him all those things will be in his dreams.
Sweet but a leeeeetle bit on the long side. I think I would have done this one first, and let Chapman's sweet gentle art usher us out. Regardless, this one is sweet, and I love how the clever mom turns all of the reasons why the little tiger can't close his eyes back onto him. It does get a little repetitive, but the spreads are colorful and full of dreamlike imagery, which helps. It really doesn't SEEM that long on the face of it, but because there's no real narrative drive, and because it's so dreamlike and gentle, it takes longer to get through it, or it FEELS longer because it is so lilting and gentle.
Time to Say Goodnight
Sally Lloyd-Jones, illustrated by Jane Chapman
ISBN: 9780060543303
Forest animals in Chapman's sweet style all share bedtime rituals with their young ones.
Lovely sweet book, good length, lots of lovely animals (including some nighttime animals having a "breakfast" storytime) are all out in natural habitats, but at the end there's a bit of a twist, as the animals all turn to ask a question of the audience/reader, revealing a child in bed surrounded by stuffed forest animals, from the classic floppy bunny and stuffed bear to a mascot-looking cardinal and a beanie-baby-style deer. Rhyming quatrains on each spread make for a sweet lilting cadence, but some of the meter is a bit forced, and there are word-choices that caused some stumbles, despite preparations. Personally, I think I would have switched the places of this one and Close Your Eyes and had this one to close up with, but that's more individual taste than anything else.
Sweet Dreams, Maisy
Lucy Cousins
ISBN: 0763628743
Another in the everlasting Maisy series, this one tackles bedtime by verbalizing sweet general rituals.
Very short, and very Maisy, with colorblocked sections and wide shaky cartoon borders around everything. Maisy and Panda are getting ready for bed, and go through a quick run-down narrating the various comforting steps to sleep, from admiring the sunset and the rising moon, to bedtime stories and songs, to bedtime benedictions (from moon and stars, rather than any religious affiliation).
Close Your Eyes
Kate Banks, illustrated by Georg Hallensleben
ISBN: 9780374313821
A cute little sloppy-painted tiger cub tries in vain to avoid bedtime by listing all the things he'll miss, but his clever mother reminds him all those things will be in his dreams.
Sweet but a leeeeetle bit on the long side. I think I would have done this one first, and let Chapman's sweet gentle art usher us out. Regardless, this one is sweet, and I love how the clever mom turns all of the reasons why the little tiger can't close his eyes back onto him. It does get a little repetitive, but the spreads are colorful and full of dreamlike imagery, which helps. It really doesn't SEEM that long on the face of it, but because there's no real narrative drive, and because it's so dreamlike and gentle, it takes longer to get through it, or it FEELS longer because it is so lilting and gentle.
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