Care for Some Soup?

Chicken Soup, by Jean Van Leeuwen, to be precise, or maybe not.... If you've got a cold, soup can make you feel better. But if you're a chicken with a cold, and Mrs. Farmer is making soup, maybe you should run away!

We hope you're feeling fine this winter, but if not, try this funny book. You can find more of our storytime books about feeling sick and feeling better here.

Button Up!

This week we're reading books about clothes and getting dressed. Button Up! Wrinkled Rhymes is a new book of poems all about clothes by Alice Schertle. Check it out and read about shoelaces, galoshes, jammies and of course, undies. And find more great clothing stories here.

A Snowy Valentine

Well, our Valentine storytimes were all but snowed out! I think we did a few too many snow dances a couple of weeks ago. Here are some of our favorite Valentine stories. Hope you got to spend the day with someone you love!

Award Winners

Congratulations to this year's Caldecott Medal winner: The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney! This week we're reading award winners and honor books. Here are some of our favorites:

Books for Babies & Toddlers:

Freight Train by Donald Crews

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

Ella Sarah Gets Dressed by Margaret Chodos-Irvine

Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes

No, David! by David Shannon

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault

Books for Preschoolers:

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Knuffle Bunny Too by Mo Willems

There is a Bird on Your Head by Mo Willems

The House in the Night by Susan Swanson

King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood

All the World by Liz Scanlon

Snow? Yes, Snow!

Let it snow, let it snow!

We love the snow and we love our snow-themed storytimes.

Penguins,

polar bears,

snowmen and snowgirls,

ice skating,

snowflakes and snow clouds!

Some of our storytime kids got to skate around on paper plates to music.

We also had paper snowflakes to hold as we whirled around in the wind.

Click here for some fun snow stories and here for penguins and polar bears.

Good Night!

Ahhhh, we pretended to sail off into dreamland by reading stories and singing songs about bedtime.

Well, actually many of our stories have characters that do NOT want to go to bed. Like the pigeon in the book Don't Let The Pigeon Stay Up Late by Mo Willems.

This funny pigeon has other adventures too!

Try some of these titles:

The Pigeon Wants A Puppy

Pigeon Finds a Hotdog

Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus

Check here for fun books about bedtime.

Family Stories

At this time of year, we love to spend time with our families, whether we go to visit them, or they come to visit us. Here are some of our favorite family stories (including lots of adorable babies). We hope you get to spend some fun time with your families!

The Stars Will Still Shine by Cynthia Rylant and Tiphanie Beeke is a beautiful book for celebrating the new year. Here's hoping we all "shall have ice cream three scoops high!"

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, everyone!