Baby & Toddler Storytimes

Well, the mooing and quacking and whistling and honking is over. Some kind person has picked up all the toys and stacked them neatly. Ms. Maggie has told me it really is time to turn off my favorite Putumayo Kids CD: World Playground. ( Remember, Just Keep Goin' On by Eric Bibb & Needed Time. Could we get a more mommy appropriate band name than that?) The babies have all gone home, thanking me -- Elsie has learned to pronounce Miss Travis which is no mean feat -- but we had a good time, didn't we? Books:  Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? by Dr. Seuss. Trust Dr. Seuss to turn the traditional, "What does the pig say, what does the cow say?" into a rhyming jingle that's fun for babies and their grownups. Quiet LOUD by Leslie Patricelli. I wonder if Leslie Patricelli really is a baby. She really gets babies. I wonder if Leslie Patricelli is a baby who really looks like this and whose work is being exploited by savvy publishers. I think her potty book is the single

We were MONKEYING around during monkey storytime today! Puppet:  Monkey puppet with a pretty cute VL poem: There was a little monkey Who lived in a tree He was pretty cute He was as cute as can be!        He gobbled up bananas       He gobbled up bugs       But he was such a lovin’ monkey       He liked to give hugs! He hugged all the babies. He hugged all their (dads &) moms. Then he got shy and said “eee eee eee eee.” And ran up the coconut palm! My monkey puppet went around the audience gobbling and hugging. Book:   Big Book of 10 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed , which I cut down to 5 little monkeys. The Itsy Bitsy Monkey climbed up the coconut tree. Down came a COCONUT and BOPPED  her on the knee. OUT came a lion shaking a great big mane And the Itsy Bitsy Monkey climbed up the tree again. click to see youtube performance Book: Jazzy in the Jungle by Lucy Cousins.  I skipped a teeny tiny bit, but this extra big, extra bright book, with its fun die-cut pages, was a major hi