Category Archives: Storytime

Dog’s Colorful Day by Emma Dodd

One more of my favorite feltboard creations – the pieces for Emma Dodd’s Dog’s Colorful Day.  It’s a great silly story about a white dog with one black spot on his ear who goes out for a walk in the … Continue reading

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Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett

I love using this feltboard story, because I get the attendees to participate in the chant that repeats throughout the story:  “Monkey and me…monkey and me…”  As the group chants, they also pat their knees to the beat of the … Continue reading

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Blue Sea by Robert Kalan

Another in my continuing series of photo documentation of my feltboard stories.  Today we are featuring the pieces I made for Robert Kalan’s classic picturebook Blue Sea.  Once again, this feltboard story isn’t too elaborate, and doesn’t look too exciting in a mere … Continue reading

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Five Little Monkeys

And another of my feltboard favorites, used often and with great gusto:  Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree, which I sometimes use as a simple fingerplay, and other times use in conjunction with Eileen Christelow’s book of the same … Continue reading

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Bear Snores On

It’s time to update my online documentation of my library of homemade feltboard stories.  Today’s featured story is Karma Wilson’s Bear Snores On, one of my storytime favorites.  Notable in this feltboard interpretation are the awake bear’s moveable eyebrows, so … Continue reading

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Wardrobe malfunction

Yup, even children’s librarians have wardrobe malfunctions.  But not quite like Janet Jackson’s… In the middle of today’s Mother Goose on the Loose Storytime for the very youngest kids, I was singing my heart out while we all rang our … Continue reading

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Library Lion

We had such a good time reading Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen in yesterday’s preschool storytime.  There was a small crowd (no doubt due to parental Christmas shopping and frigid weather), but the four children – two sets of siblings … Continue reading

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Puppets at storytime

Anyone who knows my family knows that we have an odd affinity with puppets, and anyone who knows that wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to learn that I accumulated dozens of Folkmanis puppets in my tenure as manager of the … Continue reading

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Recipe for a great storytime

Yesterday’s preschool storytime was a BLAST – for me and for the kids.  Here’s what made it so fun: “Open, Shut Them” ~ The group has learned our opening song well, and everyone now sings along with me. Otis by … Continue reading

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Shortage at MGOL

Here’s a definite sign of the poor economy: attendance at my two infant storytimes has picked up significantly.  Parents obviously can’t afford to pay for infant music classes, so they’re coming to the library; while at the library, they’re finding … Continue reading

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