Finally my turn again! When you're only doing storytime every other week, it's a long time when one gets cancelled. Last week we took a tour through some airplanes, as families look forward to holidays and visiting far-flung family or friends.
Airplanes Soaring! Turning! Diving!
Patricia Hubbell
Other than wanting to indict them for grave abuse of exclamation points on their title (seriously, people have to type that out) this is a seriously adorable and fact-filled early interest book about airplanes. Reads quick, a few fun vertically-oriented pages to mix things up a bit, and lots of weird faux-historical illustrations.
A B Cs on Wings
Ramon Olivera
Very well done. Super quick and easy to read, lay-out is STELLAR. Paper is crisp and weighty, colors are rich, designs are clear and stylized. Really truly super book.
Airport
Byron Barton
Another good "slice of life" by Barton. This time we focus on the process of getting TO the airplane: all the boring bits of arriving at the airport and processing through the waiting rooms and into the plane. It's VERY dated: the illustrations are quite 70s, and of course there's no security to be seen, but the gist is the same, and a kid isn't going to notice the finer details. Perfect for making air travel seem routine and calm, while still keeping the fun and excitement of airplanes themselves.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016
New Arrivals: Picture Book: The Airport Book, by Lisa Brown
The Airport Book
Lisa Brown
ISBN: 9781626720916
Diverse cast of characters progress through a trip by airplane.
This is a fun little picture book, with scenes very similar to the Richard Scarry "busy book" style of lots of vignettes scattered throughout the page, all of which progress through the story in the background behind the narrated main story.
Another excellent resource for storytime, and one I'll pair up with Miss Mouse Takes Off (Jan Ormerod) and hope to find a third that focuses on the travel aspect instead of on the "oooh lookit the cool plane" approach.
If you use this for storytime, be aware that there's really no good way to incorporate all the back-stories into the front-loaded narrative, and that's a bit of a shame, but at least it gets the book in front of them, and they can always check it out afterwards and learn about all the sub-stories at home with their parents.
Lisa Brown
ISBN: 9781626720916
Diverse cast of characters progress through a trip by airplane.
This is a fun little picture book, with scenes very similar to the Richard Scarry "busy book" style of lots of vignettes scattered throughout the page, all of which progress through the story in the background behind the narrated main story.
Another excellent resource for storytime, and one I'll pair up with Miss Mouse Takes Off (Jan Ormerod) and hope to find a third that focuses on the travel aspect instead of on the "oooh lookit the cool plane" approach.
If you use this for storytime, be aware that there's really no good way to incorporate all the back-stories into the front-loaded narrative, and that's a bit of a shame, but at least it gets the book in front of them, and they can always check it out afterwards and learn about all the sub-stories at home with their parents.
Monday, January 18, 2016
2015 Review Round-Up: Planes Fly! by George Ella Lyon & Mick Wiggins
Planes Fly! (Trucks Roll!)
George Ella Lyon, illustrated by Mick Wiggins
ISBN: 9781442450257
Rhyming cadence language and rich illustrations make this a storytime natural.
Read November 2015
I was so happy when I saw this picture book show up in our new piles of books! It's by the author that did the also-excellent Trucks Roll! and I am super stoked to see this one. Oddly enough, there are simply not that many good picture books about planes and flight. Considering it's a yearly rite of passage for many kids going to see relatives, and considering that picture books are a perfect conduit for illustrating new concepts and introducing new activities to kids, I'm always staggered that I have so much trouble finding good airplane travel books. This one has a few niggles; I don't love it quite as much as I do Trucks Roll!, but it's solid and catchy, and very much welcome.
George Ella Lyon, illustrated by Mick Wiggins
ISBN: 9781442450257
Rhyming cadence language and rich illustrations make this a storytime natural.
Read November 2015
I was so happy when I saw this picture book show up in our new piles of books! It's by the author that did the also-excellent Trucks Roll! and I am super stoked to see this one. Oddly enough, there are simply not that many good picture books about planes and flight. Considering it's a yearly rite of passage for many kids going to see relatives, and considering that picture books are a perfect conduit for illustrating new concepts and introducing new activities to kids, I'm always staggered that I have so much trouble finding good airplane travel books. This one has a few niggles; I don't love it quite as much as I do Trucks Roll!, but it's solid and catchy, and very much welcome.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Tuesday Storytime: Travel
This week's theme is entirely due to finding Miss Mouse Takes Off in the delivery one day by chance and loving it.
Miss Mouse Takes Off
Jan Ormerod
ISBN: 0688178715
Miss Mouse is a long-armed, long-legged stuffed mouse, and she engagingly narrates her airplane trip to visit Grandma, from check-in through the in-flight movie and back to the ground again. I love this so much because it's entirely factual, and doesn't over-glamorize or add fantastic or fantasy touches to the trip - it just stands on it's own as a mundane real life adventure.
Rattle and Rap
Susan Stegall
ISBN: 9781845077037
This one is super super short. Excellent choice for today, because I had a bunch of wiggle-worms. This might be better as a one-on-one book, because the illustrations are hugely detailed and interesting, but the word-count is so low that I'm not able to linger on them as much as I'd like because I have to keep the story (such as it is) flowing along. Essentially this is just an onomatopoeic journey on a train ride, from start "Tickets please, tickets please" to stop "End of the line, end of the line" with lots of train noises in between "rattle and rap" and "whistle and whine" and some basic descriptions "hurrying, hurrying, hurtling by" "skimming the sky, skimming the sky." Notable also for casual inclusion of multi-ethnic, multi-able characters.
Bear on a Bike
Stella Blackstone
Debbie Harter
ISBN: (Board Book) 9781841483757
There is supposed to be a hardcover edition of this, but I wasn't able to find one through our consortium, sadly. (Hardcover ISBN: 978190122491) A rhyming book, with paired page-spreads - one with the bear on a form of transport (bike, raft, boat, rocket), the second spread shows where the bear went. Ends with Bear on a rocket-ship heading out into space. Very sweet, very short. The rhymes are easy, but some of them don't scan particularly well for me: "I'm going to the seaside, / Where children love to play, / Where young friends dig and race / And swim, while fishes dart away."
Overall a nice set of short easy reads for our little ones today.
Miss Mouse Takes Off
Jan Ormerod
ISBN: 0688178715
Miss Mouse is a long-armed, long-legged stuffed mouse, and she engagingly narrates her airplane trip to visit Grandma, from check-in through the in-flight movie and back to the ground again. I love this so much because it's entirely factual, and doesn't over-glamorize or add fantastic or fantasy touches to the trip - it just stands on it's own as a mundane real life adventure.
Rattle and Rap
Susan Stegall
ISBN: 9781845077037
This one is super super short. Excellent choice for today, because I had a bunch of wiggle-worms. This might be better as a one-on-one book, because the illustrations are hugely detailed and interesting, but the word-count is so low that I'm not able to linger on them as much as I'd like because I have to keep the story (such as it is) flowing along. Essentially this is just an onomatopoeic journey on a train ride, from start "Tickets please, tickets please" to stop "End of the line, end of the line" with lots of train noises in between "rattle and rap" and "whistle and whine" and some basic descriptions "hurrying, hurrying, hurtling by" "skimming the sky, skimming the sky." Notable also for casual inclusion of multi-ethnic, multi-able characters.
Bear on a Bike
Stella Blackstone
Debbie Harter
ISBN: (Board Book) 9781841483757
There is supposed to be a hardcover edition of this, but I wasn't able to find one through our consortium, sadly. (Hardcover ISBN: 978190122491) A rhyming book, with paired page-spreads - one with the bear on a form of transport (bike, raft, boat, rocket), the second spread shows where the bear went. Ends with Bear on a rocket-ship heading out into space. Very sweet, very short. The rhymes are easy, but some of them don't scan particularly well for me: "I'm going to the seaside, / Where children love to play, / Where young friends dig and race / And swim, while fishes dart away."
Overall a nice set of short easy reads for our little ones today.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Storytime Potentials: Miss Mouse Takes Off, Jan Ormerod - airplane travel
Miss Mouse Takes Off
Jan Ormerod
ISBN: 0688178715
Read Feb 24, 2014
I spotted this little gem by chance while processing library transits, and I'm so glad I spotted it. Travel books aimed at the very very young are often way too cutesy or repetitive for my taste, or they gloss over the actual realities of travel (it's long, it's boring, you're stuck in a chair or berth) in favor of more fantastical adventures.
This little guy is perfect. Written from the perspective of Miss Mouse, a stuffed lovey, a trip to visit grandma becomes a straightforward adventure in it's own right, with no mystical trappings or elisions. I do feel a bit sorry for the other passengers on the flight who have to deal with Miss Mouse's antics (she ends up in some poor gentleman's soup!).
Now I just have to find two more nifty travel or airplane titles to pair it up with. I'm tempted to go with a travel theme rather than an airplane theme, since the travel aspects are hit so hard and so well. I'll just have to see what I turn up, and you can be sure you'll see this title popping up under the Storytime tag in the next few months!
Jan Ormerod
ISBN: 0688178715
Read Feb 24, 2014
I spotted this little gem by chance while processing library transits, and I'm so glad I spotted it. Travel books aimed at the very very young are often way too cutesy or repetitive for my taste, or they gloss over the actual realities of travel (it's long, it's boring, you're stuck in a chair or berth) in favor of more fantastical adventures.
This little guy is perfect. Written from the perspective of Miss Mouse, a stuffed lovey, a trip to visit grandma becomes a straightforward adventure in it's own right, with no mystical trappings or elisions. I do feel a bit sorry for the other passengers on the flight who have to deal with Miss Mouse's antics (she ends up in some poor gentleman's soup!).
Now I just have to find two more nifty travel or airplane titles to pair it up with. I'm tempted to go with a travel theme rather than an airplane theme, since the travel aspects are hit so hard and so well. I'll just have to see what I turn up, and you can be sure you'll see this title popping up under the Storytime tag in the next few months!
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