Baby & Toddler Storytimes

  Books Silly Faces See Me...Go!  This dopey board book has a big opening in the middle so that as I turn the pages (Flying on a plane is fun! I can fly high in the sky!) I can hold it up to toddler faces for a little audience participation.  Beep Beep  by Petr Horacek The Babies on the Bus by Karen Katz.  The babies on the bus bounced, cried, slept and waved goodbye! Usually I don't vary the favorites with this group because the babies love repetition so much more than originality or a challenge, but Karen Katz, as usual, was right on target. Toot Toot Beep Beep   by Emma Garcia. Sounds + types of vehicles + colors = perfect storytime starter.  This year I used it at the end of the book, rolling different colored cars down a ramp I made from a half sheet of foam board. Moo! by David Larochelle.  Even though this is my all time favorite, and everyone listens, I don't think the babies get the irony.    Diggers Go  by Steve Light.  Also types of vehicles + sounds, nice and big

B o o k s Big Green Monster by Ed Emberly Let's Play  by Herve Tullet.  Let's see -- a big yellow pom pom and a piece of string?  They really liked this, it was so interactive.  We did it without the pom pom, and even the runners got involved . White Rabbits Shape Book by Alan Baker.  Couldn't find the book but I had taped the whole thing onto the lid of the BIG SQUARE GREEN BOX.  The babies love this -- taking out the white cylinder, blowing up the round balloons, letting them go and spiral around wildly in the air.  A big show. Ticklemonster by Manceau.  Shape by Shape by Suse MacDonald.  A bit like Big Green Monster, i.e., aDORable.  But don't forget to hide the cover!!! And don't forget the intro: this is a guessing game, and it's being read by the brachiosaurus, so be a brachiosaurus! Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh.  A flannelboard must.