Storytime Books for the Week of April 10-16

This week is National Library Week, so our preschoolers read several library oriented books in storytime. They also wrote their own books at the end of each class, which was extremely cute for us librarians to watch. It was great to see the kids working on their pre-writing skills while practicing writing the word "princess" or drawing pictures of dragons and knights. Here are the books the preschoolers read in storytime this week:

The Library Dragon by Carmen Deedy

Miss Lotta Scales is a dragon who believes her job is to protect the school's library books from the children, but when she finally realizes that books are meant to be read, the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, librarian and storyteller. The new librarian is a real fire-breathing dragon who in time learns to trust children with her books. The new librarian at Sunrise Elementary School is a real dragon!

Wild About Books by Judy Sierra A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake. Book! Book! Book! By Deborah Bruss When the children go back to school, the animals on the farm are bored, so they go into the library in town trying to find something to do. The babies and toddlers used the spring weather as inspiration for their storytime, which featured rain and ducks. Miss Kim's Babies Storytime and Little Tykes class read:

Little Quack by Lauren Thompson

One by one, four ducklings find the courage to jump into the pond and paddle with Mama Duck, until only Little Quack is left in the nest, trying to be brave.

Here Comes the Rain by Mary Murphy

A cat tries to run away from a rain cloud, but when the rain comes she finds that it is cool, tickly, gentle, clean, and lovely.

Miss Rachel's (My) Bedtime Stories class and Babies and Toddlers class read:

Ten Rubber Duckies: A Wacky Quacky Counting Adventure by Dawn Bentley Young ones will love learning to count backwards from nine to one as touchable, squeaky rubber ducks race down a river.

Little White Duck by Walt Whippo Based on the song of the same title, a little white duck causes a commotion in its pond.