FALL 07 Storytime - Nov. 20 - THANKSGIVING

Books:
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie/ Jackson, Allison
The Firefighters' Thanksgiving/ Boelts, Maribeth
Thanksgiving Mice!/ Roberts, Bethany
Over the River: A Turkey's Tale/ Anderson, Derek
Turkey on the Loose!/ Wickstrom, Sylvie

Fingerplays:
Way Up High in the Apple Tree
Five Little Apples

Songs:
The Turkey Ran Away (tune: Farmer in the Dell)
Turkey! Turkey! (tune: Skip to My Lou)
I'm Thankful For (tune: The Bear Went Over the Mountain)

Flannelboard Story:
The Enormous Turnip

Craft:
paper plate fall wreath

FALL 07 Storytime - Nov. 13 - GOING PLACES

Books:

Clickety Clack/ Spence, Amy

Dinosailors/ Lund, Deb

Row, Row, Row Your Boat/ Oppenheim, Joanne

Mr. Gumpy's Outing/ Burningham, John

Wake Up Engines/ Mortensen, Denise

Silly Sally/ Wood, Audrey

Flannel Rhymes & Story:

Color Train

5 Little Boats

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Fingerplays:

Here Comes the Choo-Choo Train

My Bicycle (from I'm a Little Teapot by Jane Cobb)

Song:

Down By the Station

Craft:

car cut-out picture

FALL 07 Storytime - Oct. 30 - HALLOWEEN

Books:
Popcorn/ Asch, Frank
Mommy?/ Sendak, Maurice
Where the Wild Things Are/ Sendak, Maurice
This is the Pumpkin/ Levine, Abby
Farm-Fresh Cats/ Santoro, Scott
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything/ Williams, Linda
Apples and Pumpkins/ Rockwell, Anne

Songs:
I'm a Little Pumpkin, Short and Stout
The Leaves on the Trees are Falling Down
The Great Big Spider

Flannel/Fingerplays:
Five Little Pumpkins
One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pumpkins

Activity:
Scarecrow, Scarecrow Turn Around

Puppet Story:
Go Away Big Green Monster (based on the book by Ed Emberley)

Craft:
spider web plates

FALL07 Storytime - Oct. 23 - PRINCES & PRINCESSES

Books:

The King's Tea/ Noble, Trinka

King Bidgood's in the Bathtub/ Wood, Audrey

The End/ LaRochelle, David

If I Were Queen of the World/ Hiatt, Fred

One Monday Morning/ Shulevitz, Uri

Princess Aasta/ Ordal, Stina

The Princess and the Pea/ Anderson, Hans Christian

Flannel Rhymes:
Two Little Bluebirds
Humpty Dumpty

Songs:
The Grand Old Duke of York
Sing a Song of Six Pence

Craft:
paper crowns

Tumblebooks for kids!

Did you know that the library has fabulous e-books for kids online? TumbleBooks are audiovisual versions of popular books that you can access from the OCPL website. From our website, www.ocpl.org, click on "Children's Services," and then click on "E-Books for E-Kids."

TumbleBook story books are animated versions of popular picture books such as Little Pea, Diary of a Worm, and Miss Malarkey Doesn't Live in Room 10, complete with text and sound. There are also full text e-book versions of lengthier chapter books, such as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, with the option to turn on an audio recording of the displayed text.

TumbleBooks are great for parents who are looking to present reading in a new way and also for kids who are learning to read independently. The chapter e-books are also great for kids who read better while listening to the text at the same time.

FALL07 Storytime - Oct. 16 - MISS CATHY'S FAVORITES

Books:
Little Pea/ Rosenthal, Amy Krause
Butterfly, Butterfly/ Horacek, Petr
A Good Day/ Henkes, Kevin
The Little Red Hen/ Barton, Byron (big book version)
Old Mother Hubbard/ Hawkins, Colin
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat/ Taback, Simms
Let's Make Rabbits/ Lionni Leo

Flannelboard Rhymes & Songs:
Here's a Nest
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
BINGO

Songs:
Have You Ever Seen an Apple? (tune: "The More We Get Together")
Autumn Leaves are Falling Down (tune: "The Wheels on the Bus")

Fingerplay:
Tommy Thumbs Up

Game:
What Color Am I?

Film:
"Good Night, Gorilla" based on the book by Peggy Rathmann

Children's Book Week Bookmark Contest!

The Los Alamitos-Rossmoor Library's 2nd Annual Children's Book Week Bookmark Contest starts today! Children in preschool through 5th grade are invited to participate. This year's theme is "Rise Up Reading." Three winners will be chosen and each will receive a Barnes & Noble gift card. Winning entries will be reproduced for distribution at the branch and local schools.

Entry forms are available at the library. Completed entries must be turned in to the library by 5:00 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007.

Be creative, have fun, and best of luck to all our budding artists!