Outreach Storytime: Get up and move!

  • Program Goals 
    • Encourage library visits during the winter
    • Introduce some active books to teachers and students
    • Build relationships with students and teachers
  • Toddlers (*Nonfiction)
    • Don't push the button by Bill Cotter (T 2019)
    • Get out of my bath by Britta Teckentrup
  • Preschool & Kindergartener (*Nonfiction)
    • *Guess who, Haiku by Deanna Caswell
    • This book is magic by Ashley Evanson
    • It's a tiger by David LaRochelle (T 2019)
    • What's next door by Nicola O'Byrne (T 2019)
    • Mix it up by Herve Tullet (J 2019)
  • Long stories (*Nonfiction)
    • Firefighter duckies by Frank Dormer (J 2019)
    • *Move! by Steve Jenkins
    • Sea monkey and Bob by Aaron Reynolds (J 2019)
  • Movement and Music
  • Previously used titles
    • Chicken story time by Sandy Asher
    • Brownie Groundhog and the February Fox by Susan Blackaby
    • Jump by Scott Fischer
    • Read the book, lemmings by Ame Dyckman
    • I'm awake by Maxwell Eaton
    • Dog on a frog by Kes Gray
    • Can you move like an elephant? by Judy Hindley
    • *Who has these feet? by Laura Hulbert
    • Warning: Do not open this book! by Adam Lehrhaupt
    • Please, open this book! by Adam Lehrhaupt
    • Stripes the tiger by Jean Leroy
    • Open very carefully by Nicola O'Byrne
    • Use your imagination by Nicola O'Byrne
    • The bear who wasn't there by LeUyen Pham
    • *Do you know which ones will grow? by Susan Shea
    • Honk, Honk, hold tight by Jessica Souhami
    • Hop, Hop, Jump! by Lauren Thompson

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