{"id":633,"date":"2009-12-18T19:55:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T23:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=633"},"modified":"2010-12-10T17:07:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T21:07:13","slug":"library-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/library-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had such a good time reading Library Lion <\/a><\/em>by Michelle Knudsen in yesterday’s preschool storytime.\u00a0 There was a small crowd (no doubt due to parental Christmas shopping and frigid weather), but the four children – two sets of siblings – who attended absolutely loved the story.\u00a0 The youngest of the four did ask a lot of “Why?” questions:\u00a0 “Why did the lion leave the library?”\u00a0 “Why doesn’t Mr. McBee like the lion?”\u00a0 “Why did Mr. McBee go find the lion?”, but we were able to answer the why questions and keep the story moving.<\/p>\n

Another highlight of yesterday’s storytime\u00a0was the appearance of the owl puppet <\/a>to assist with the telling of Wow!\u00a0 Said the Owl <\/em>by Tim Hopgood.\u00a0 Though the story doesn’t really lend itself to telling with a puppet, it gave me an opportunity to use my favorite puppet.\u00a0 Owl, who once had a name but I’ve forgotten it, blinks his eyes and turns his head and is so realistic that I have actually fooled kids into thinking there’s a real owl in the library.\u00a0 Owl also serves as my familiar when I dress up as a witch for Halloween.<\/p>\n

Most of all, though, yesterday’s storytime was great because it was small and I could interact with each child in a meaningful way, answering their questions about the stories and even introducing the two sets of siblings to each other.\u00a0 It was a lovely last storytime of 2009 – no storytimes for the next two weeks! – and we all left the story room happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had such a good time reading Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen in yesterday’s preschool storytime.\u00a0 There was a small crowd (no doubt due to parental Christmas shopping and frigid weather), but the four children – two sets of siblings – who attended absolutely loved the story.\u00a0 The youngest of the four did ask a … Continue reading Library Lion<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}