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Sun, May 5, 2013
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Raffi's Bumping Up and Down is a great bicycling song. |
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May is here with its blossoming trees and warm, elongated days that make for the most enjoyable bike rides. Did you know that May is National Bike Month? It's a great time of the year to encourage your child to learn how to ride a tricycle or a big-kid bicycle! Reinforcing literacy concepts with play helps your child prepare for independent reading. Here are a few Free Library resources to get your little one excited for biking!
Raffi's tune, "Bumping Up and Down," has a catchy beat toddlers will love and it's great way to introduce the concept of riding outside with your loved ones. The lyrics are easily adaptable to include different types of bicycles and tricycles!
Frank Viva created Along a long road as a continuous, 35 foot-long drawing. The book's beautiful retro-modern illustrations and unique pacing conveys the freedom of movement and fun one has while riding a bike.
Vera, in Rosenberry's Vera rides a bike, overcomes the daunting newness all kids face when attempting to ride a bicycle solo for the first time.
Here are a few more biking books:
Ducking for apples by Lynne Berry
New red bike! by James Ransome
Red wagon by Renata Liwska
Please contact your local branch librarian if you need help finding these materials.
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Children's books,
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music
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Toddlers will enjoy Viva's unconventional illustrations. |
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Vera's courage to ride a big kid bike will surely inspire young riders/readers! |
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Mon, April 8, 2013
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April is National Poetry Month!
Sharing poems and songs with your preschool-aged children helps get them ready to read. Nursery rhymes and nonsense verse are especially great in the way they expand children’s imaginations, and tickle their funny bones. When you sing or say a rhyme, your child learns that words are broken up into syllables. Think about how words are broken up in “Mary Had A Little Lamb” and “The Itsy Bitsy Spider.” Now you know what a syllable is!
Here are some books, available at your local Free Library of Philadelphia location, which feature poems, songs, and rhymes for preschool children.
The Neighborhood Mother Goose by Nina Crews
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star by Jane Cabrera
Here’s a Little Poem: My Very First Book of Poetry by Jane Yolen
Dancing Feet by Lindsey Craig
Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling by Tracey Campbell Pearson
Itsy Bitsy Spider by Annie Kubler
Pat-a-Cake and Other First Baby Games by Tom Brannon (Sesame Beginnings)
Tanka Tanka Skunk by Steve Webb
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Children's books,
Pre-K,
early literacy
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Stars twinkle, shimmer, and flicker in this new picture book. |
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Little John went to bed with his trousers on! |
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Sing and sign this classic kids' song. |
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Fri, October 19, 2012
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Something scary is creeping up behind you… Getting closer every day… It’s HALLOWEEN! And if you’re anything like me, you’re putting off costumes until the last minute. Get some great, super-easy ideas for kids costumes at Kidspot. Make fairy wings in minutes! A no-sew magician’s cape!
And of course, don’t forget to share some creepy crawly books with your little ones. Here are a few of your Free Library Children’s Librarian tried-and-true favorites.
Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds, illustrated by Peter Brown. The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes.
Halloween Forest by Marion Dane Bauer, illustrated by John Shelley. A trick-or-treater ventures outside town only to find that the forest is full of spooky bones!
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams, illustrated by Megan Lloyd. The classic holiday favorite about a clever old lady who assures a clomping pair of shoes and a wiggling pair of pants that she is not afraid of them.
Shake dem Halloween Bones by W. Nikola–Lisa, illustrated by Mike Reed. A rhythmic tale about different updated fairy tale characters who attend a hip-hop Halloween ball.
If You’re a Monster and You Know It by Rebecca and Ed Emberley. Clap your claws! Twitch your tail! Wiggle your warts!
In a Dark Dark Wood: An Old Tale With an New Twist by David A. Carter. In the dark, dark wood, there was a dark, dark house... Do you dare read till the end?
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Children's books,
Pre-K,
early literacy
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From Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown's book Creepy Carrots |
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If You're a Monster and You Know It by Rebecca and Ed Emberley |
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The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams, illustrated by Megan Lloyd |
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Tue, October 9, 2012
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Is your little one feeling sniffly and sneezy? Come check out some of these books, and you'll be sure to feel better soon!
Bear Feels Sick by Karma Wilson, illustrated by Jane Chapman
Poor old Bear wakes up achy and stuffy, and his woodland friends make him feel better with tea, lullabies, and their kind company.
Pigs Make Me Sneeze! by Mo Willems
Oh no! Elephant is allergic to his best friend, Piggie! Call Doctor Cat!
I Hate to Be Sick! by Aamir Lee Bermiss, illustrated by Ken Wilson-Max
Being sick means staying in bed, missing school and playtime. Fortunately, the little boy in this sweet Easy Reader has daddy to make him feel better.
"Stand Back!" Said the Elephant, "I'm Going to Sneeze!" by Patricia Thomas, illustrated by Wallace Tripp
Speaking of sneezing elephants! All the animals try to convince elephant to hold in his sneeze, due to the disastrous effects of his last sneeze. (Hint: It scared the stripes off the zebras.)
Feel better soon!
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Children's books,
Pre-K,
early literacy
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Bear Feels Sick by Karma Wilson |
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Pigs Make Me Sneeze! by Mo Willems |
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I Hate to Be Sick! by Aamir Lee Bermiss |
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Fri, May 18, 2012
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Scoot! by Cathryn Falwell |
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Turtle's Penguin Day by Valeri Gorbachev |
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The Foolish Tortoise by Richard Buckley, illustrated by the great Eric Carle |
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Did you know that May 23rd is World Turtle Day? Since 1990, the American Tortoise Rescue has designated this date to "bring attention to turtle conservation issues and highlightn ways each of us can help protect these gentle but jeopardized animals."
How about celebrating World Turtle Day with the children in your life, by reading a turtle book or two? Some of our favorites are:
Scoot! by Cathryn Falwell
Turtle's Penguin Day by Valeri Gorbachev
The Foolish Tortoise by Richard Buckley, illustrated by Eric Carle
And here's a turtle rhyme, brought to us by Children's Librarian Deb Mikus at the Lawncrest Branch of the Free Library:
One baby turtle alone and new
Finds a friends, and then there are two.
Two baby turtles crawl down to the sea.
They find another, and then there are three.
Three baby turtles crawl along the shore.
They find another, and then there are four.
Four baby turtles go for a dive.
Up swims another, and then there are five!
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Children's books,
Pre-K,
early literacy
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