Books

Books in BloomBooks in Bloom: Creative Patterns and Props That Bring Stories to Life
ALA Editions, 2003

Thoroughly engage your audience in the quality and spirit of your presentation when you use these “permission granted” plans, scripts, and props that reflect the original works. Thoroughly organized instructions, materials lists, and scripts are provided, making it easy to offer inspired presentations. Projects range in difficulty from “easy,” taking two or three hours, to “expert” level, taking up to forty hours. By understanding the developmental underpinnings and mastering all the steps throughout the process, you will be ready to tackle your own projects. This book is for all those children’s librarians, school media specialists, storytellers, teachers, and day-care workers ready to take the next step to transform storytime into a truly magical experience.

Available from: ALA Online Bookstore, Amazon

Storytime Around the YearStorytime Around the Year
Highsmith / Upstart Books, 2008

Complete storytime programs based on seasonal themes! Sharing the delights of books, poetry, rhymes, and songs can help pave the way for a child’s ultimate reading success. Whether you are a new librarian, a teacher, or an experienced storyteller looking for new ideas and inspiration to enhance your storytime sessions, the program outlines, suggested segues, scripts, and patterns included in Storytime Around the Year provide you with a springboard of ideas and an array of "ingredients" to sprinkle into your storytimes for years to come. Seasonal themes include: mittens, valentines, eggs, rain, gardens, bugs, picnics, trips, apples, scarecrows, food and cookies.

Available from Upstart Books, Amazon

Mother Goose Rhyme Time Series (Limited Availability)

An adapted version of the Mother Goose Rhyme Time series is currently in the works. Please check back soon for an update, or sign up here to be notified when it is released.

Storytime Around the YearMother Goose Rhyme Time: Animals
Upstart Books, 2006
Book ISBN: 978-1932146660
Poster/Character set item number: highsmith.com L3W-H30397

Engage the children in your library or classroom with traditional nursery rhymes! Mother Goose Rhyme Time: Animals book and coordinating large size punch-out character sets provide tools and techniques to help you successfully weave nursery rhymes and related activities into the fabric of your storytime programs and curriculum. Each chapter features one nursery rhyme, including variants, history of the rhyme, musical notation, instructions for preparing and using the punch-out character sets, storytime ideas, early literacy activities, take-home rhyme pieces and additional extension ideas. The activities follow seven focus areas recommended for early literacy programs: print motivation, language and vocabulary, phonological awareness, print awareness, narrative skills, letter knowledge and parent/caregiver connections. Featured rhymes: Baa Baa Black Sheep; Blow, Wind, Blow!; Chook, Chook, Chook; Dickery Dickery Dare; Hickety Pickety; and Hickory Dickory Dock.

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Storytime Around the YearMother Goose Rhyme Time: Night
Upstart Books, 2006
Book ISBN: 978-1932146653
Poster/Character set item number: highsmith.com L3W-H70422

Engage the children in your library or classroom with traditional nursery rhymes! Mother Goose Rhyme Time: Night book and coordinating large size punch-out multicultural character sets provide tools and techniques to help you successfully weave nursery rhymes and related activities into the fabric of your storytime programs and curriculum. Each chapter features one nursery rhyme, including variants, history of the rhyme, musical notation, instructions for preparing and using the punch-out character sets, storytime ideas, early literacy activities, take-home rhyme pieces and additional extension ideas. The activities follow seven focus areas recommended for early literacy programs: print motivation, language and vocabulary, phonological awareness, print awareness, narrative skills, letter knowledge and parent/caregiver connections. Featured rhymes: Diddle Diddle Dumpling; Hey Diddle Diddle; Jack Be Nimble; Little Boy Blue; The Man in the Moon; and There Was an Old Woman Tossed Up in a Basket.

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Storytime Around the YearMother Goose Rhyme Time: People
Upstart Books, 2006
Book ISBN: 978-1932146677
Poster/Character set item number: highsmith.com L3W-H90030

Engage the children in your library or classroom with traditional nursery rhymes! Mother Goose Rhyme Time: People book and coordinating large size punch-out multicultural character sets provide tools and techniques to help you successfully weave nursery rhymes and related activities into the fabric of your storytime programs and curriculum. Each chapter features one nursery rhyme, including variants, history of the rhyme, musical notation, instructions for preparing and using the punch-out character sets, storytime ideas, early literacy activities, take-home rhyme pieces and additional extension ideas. The activities follow seven focus areas recommended for early literacy programs: print motivation, language and vocabulary, phonological awareness, print awareness, narrative skills, letter knowledge and parent/caregiver connections. Featured rhymes: Here Am I; Little Bo-Peep; Little Jack Horner; Mistress Mary; Rub-a-Dub Dub; and There Was an Old Woman Lived Under a Hill.

Available from Amazon