Bedtime Storytimes are always fun. I hope someday to actually do a "sleepover" storytime at night with pajamas and stuffies!
I'm Not Sleepy!
Jane Chapman
ISBN: 9781561487653
Little Owl is NOT sleepy, but Grandma Owl is patient, kind, determined, and just a bit sneaky. Even through Grandma Owl is the one who eventually gets put to bed, Little Owl is the one who (finally) drops off to sleep.
How to Put Your Parents to Bed
Mylisa Larsen, illustrated by Babette Cole
ISBN: 9780062320643
I normally don't like this sort of sloppy watercolor/comic/squiggly line drawing sort of art style, but it fits the theme so perfectly that I couldn't resist. The full spread illustrating the sleepy parents' faces is PRICELESS.
Bedtime!
Christine Anderson, illustrated by Steven Salerno
ISBN: 0399240047
One of my favorites, and gets used in rotation regularly. Melanie is FAAR to busy to head to bed, but someone has to get ready for bed, and Mom decides Bart the dog is it. Bart gets a nice bath, a lovely ribbon (Melanie's lovely ribbon) gets into pajamas (Melanie's pajamas) and even gets the traditional big good night kiss from Daddy before Melanie twigs to the fact that she's missing out and starts hustling to get herself back into the schedule before she misses her bedtime story.
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New Arrival: The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton, Audrey Vernick & Steven Salerno
The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton
Audrey Vernick, illustrated by Steven Salerno
ISBN: 9780544611634
Edith was born to a baseball-loving family, joined a pro-team at age 10, and played in Japan.
Edith was born in 1912, and not many women played baseball, but by the time she was ten, there was a local team starting up called the Philadelphia Bobbies (named because they bobbed their hair short as a team identity). The team was intended for adults, but she impressed them so much that they let her join up, and eventually put her in as starting shortstop. The Bobbies played all over, mostly exhibition games against male teams because there was no women's league and very few other women teams at all. When Edith was 13, the team was invited to play a set of exhibition games in Japan. So Edith traveled across the USA, playing games all the way, to board a steamer in Seattle and head to Japan.
The story is chronological and factual, and focuses pretty much exclusively on Edith's time with the Bobbies and in Japan, but an extended biographical note afterwards glosses the rest of her life and offers other places to find more information about her, and notes her placement in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Audrey Vernick, illustrated by Steven Salerno
ISBN: 9780544611634
Edith was born to a baseball-loving family, joined a pro-team at age 10, and played in Japan.
Edith was born in 1912, and not many women played baseball, but by the time she was ten, there was a local team starting up called the Philadelphia Bobbies (named because they bobbed their hair short as a team identity). The team was intended for adults, but she impressed them so much that they let her join up, and eventually put her in as starting shortstop. The Bobbies played all over, mostly exhibition games against male teams because there was no women's league and very few other women teams at all. When Edith was 13, the team was invited to play a set of exhibition games in Japan. So Edith traveled across the USA, playing games all the way, to board a steamer in Seattle and head to Japan.
The story is chronological and factual, and focuses pretty much exclusively on Edith's time with the Bobbies and in Japan, but an extended biographical note afterwards glosses the rest of her life and offers other places to find more information about her, and notes her placement in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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