Yesterday was my first day back from maternity leave. Due to a daycare snafu, my son Max joined me at work for most of the day and slept through his first storytime (even with kids screaming "Happy New Year!" and blowing horns). It's good to be back in the newly painted juvenile room. Thank you to everyone who assisted while I was away and for giving me such a nice welcome back.
In addition to gearing up for the Summer Reading Program, I'd like to make some other additions and changes to the children's and teen areas. I'm catching up on catalogs to order as many new, fabulous books as possible, making a user-friendly guide to our biographies (by page number and occupation) and starting both a newsletter and this blog. If you have any suggestions, complaints or book requests, please don't hesitate to contact me. Coming in spring 2012: puppet shows, a Yo Gabba Gabba dance party, knot tying and more! I also hope to have regular book reviews and reader's advisory on this blog.
For those who missed it, or want more information, here are the details from this week's storytime. The theme was New Year's/parties and included:
P. Bear's New Year's Party by Paul Owen Lewis (a quick, fun read on counting and New Year's parties)
Stanley's Party by Linda Bailey (about a misbehaving dog's out of control party)
Counting with Apollo by Caroline Gregoire (another quick read on counting, staring a flexible and overeating dachshund)
I Am Invited to a Party! by Mo Willems (a surefire hit, with easy audience participation of yelling "Party!")
We also sang a New Year's themed song to "The Wheels on the Bus" (wear party hats, blow our horns, yell Happy New Year). The kids were very well-behaved about not blowing their horns in the library once storytime was over.
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