National Library Week 2015

We had to take a break from the alphabet to celebrate National Library Week.  Despite an unattended extra evening session, this storytime went fabulously.

BOOKS:

We read A Library Book for Bear by Bonnie Becker and The Midnight Library by Kazuno Kohara.

Both of these books are just darling and perfect for the topic and for reading aloud.  I love Becker’s Bear series.  I love to give Bear a low distinguished voice and Mouse a high squeaky one.  Bear is a good read for children who don’t want to get out of their comfort zone.  The Midnight Library is a charming story about the little librarian and her owl assistants.  I hope she makes another appearance in a Kohara story.  The illustrations are bold lined, clean, and adorable.  I think the color blocking that’s used is genius.  Both of these went over well in storytime.

ACTION RHYME:

We did “If You’re a Reader and You Know It” – modified from “If You’re Happy and You Know It.”  Our verses were clap your hands, stomp your feet, shout hooray and read a book.  Borrowed from Storytime Katie.

SONG:

I had the great pleasure of weeding our board book collection a few weeks ago and I stumbled onto this gem.

Not only is this an awesome board book about the library, it’s also a song.  There’s a note in the front that says that this can be sung to the tune of “The Muffin Man.”  As I am a resourceful library, I looked up the ukulele chords to “The Muffin Man” and typed out the lyrics with the chords.  This was our song for the week.  If you want a copy of song with chords, comment here with your email or you can send me an email and ask: ascherer@egflibrary.org.

CRAFT:

I knew I wanted to do paperbag books, but it took me a little while to figure out what to put inside of them.  I spontaneously came up with some drawing prompts and a few pictures.  Here’s my book.

The kids really enjoyed making their books and they liked the combo of drawing with markers plus gluing.  That seems to be a thing with them.  I don’t mind.  I like drawing with markers and gluing.  I think this is a cute craft that could be used with other topics too.  Easily adaptable.