Kamishibai Recap!

To help celebrate the 2013 Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival we held a Japanese Kamishibai program at the library. The program included a traditional Kamishibai story stage and candy treats. We read

 

The Little Crab written by Hiroshi Yasuda

and illustrated by Hideo Tominaga.

 

We also read: Kamishibai Man written and illustrated by Allen Say

 

Yoko written and illustrated by Rosemary Wells

 

Random Acts of Kindness

We were the recipients of a Random Act of Kindness. Thank you students of Joseph D. Sharp School.  We love the bookmarks!

This Week @ Story Time

What we read:

Little Listeners:

 

Kite Day written and illustrated by Will Hillenbrand

 

Kite Flying written and illustrated by Grace Lin

 

Blue Sky written and illustrated by Audrey Wood

Story Time:

Mud by Mary Lyn Ray

 

Pigs in the Mud In the Middle of the Rud by Lynn Plourde

 

A Mud Pie for Mother by Scott Beck

This Week @ Story Time

What we read:

Little Listeners:

Waiting for Wings written and illustrated by Lois Ehlert

 

Flower Garden written by Eve Bunting

and illustrated Kathryn Hewitt

Story Time:

Someone Bigger by Jonathan Emmett

 

Kite Day: A Bear and Mole Story by Will Hillenbrand

 

The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins

 

Stuck by Oliver Jeffers

Happy 25th Anniversary to Matilda

Slate Magazine has a great ode to Roald Dahl's Matilda. Plus, Matilda the Musical is now showing on Broadway.  Happy 25th to our favorite telekinetic girl!

Book Buzz April, 2013

Nancy Clancy: Secret Admirer by Jane O’Conner

It is a week before Valentine’s Day.  Love is in the air.  Nancy wants nothing more than to see her guitar teacher and her babysitter go out on a date together.  So Bree and Nancy decide to set them up on a date without them knowing it.  Will Nancy and Bree be able to pull off writing secret notes and arranging a secret "rendez-vous”(which is a fancy word for meeting)? Jacquie (J Fiction)
 

The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom (The League of Princes series, book 1) by Christopher Healy

This is a great story that is cleverly written and very funny. It will give you the inside story on Prince Charming. You hear all about Cinderella, Snow White and Rapunzel, but how much do you know about  Prince Charming?  Well, this book will tell you all about them and more - they have names (other than Prince Charming) and weaknesses.  This book is great for boys and girls, filled with many misadventures and laughs. Book 2 is due in early May. Kristin (J Fiction)

Who Could That Be At This Hour? (All The Wrong Questions #1) by Lemony Snicket

 

If you liked “A Series of Unfortunate Events” then you will be thrilled to learn that Lemony Snicket is at it again, this time writing a prequel series call “All the Wrong Questions.”  Book one starts with 13-year-old Snicket beginning a mysterious apprenticeship in a town called Stain'd-by-the-sea (which is no longer by the sea).  There he tries to solve the mystery of an odd statue called the Bombinating Beast which may or may not be valuable and which may or may not have been stolen from his client. Of course, this being Lemony Snicket, every question leads to another question.  You may not find many answers... but you will have fun getting wrapped up in the mystery! Alia (J Fiction)

The Center of Everything by Linda Urban

 

Ruby Pepperdine hasn’t felt like herself since her grandmother GiGi passed away and hopes that if she can just do everything the way she’s ‘supposed to,’ her world will right itself. This book follows Ruby on one afternoon (filling in the story with flashbacks) as she waits for destiny to strike and fix everything that has gone wrong, including her fight with best friend Lucy and her rocky new friendship with Nero DeNiro. Most of all she hopes that by reading her winning essay during the Bunning Day Parade (honoring the inventor of the donut), the wish she made on her birthday will come true and she will be able to go back to the day GiGi died. Will Ruby’s world find its center again… and will it happen the way she thinks? Meghan (J Fiction)

 

Early Predictions for the 2014 Caldecott and Newbery

Check out these very early award rumblings over at Fuse 8.  These make great books for your "to read" list.  New stuff from Peter Brown, Jon Klassen, and David Wiesner!? We can't wait!

This Week @ Story Time

What we read:

Little Listeners:

The Odd Egg written and illustrated by Emily Gravett

 

Peedie written and illustrated by Olivier Dunrea

 

First The Egg written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

 

Story Time:

Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

 

Duck Sock Hop by Jane Kohuth

 

Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes

 

A Boy and His Bunny by Sean Bryan