Storytime: Bears

This month's preschool storytime for outreach is Bears!

Books:

The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear

by Don and Audrey Wood

The Three Bears

by Byron Barton

 

We're Going on a Bear Hunt

by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury

 

Where's My Teddy?

by Jez Alborough 

 

 

Jamberry

by Bruce Degen

With a little "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear" stretch thrown in the middle when they get antsy.

I decided to try something crazy this year and start my storytime with a book about the library. Not all the children I work with have a chance to come to the library, so they don't all know what I do. So I read them all Anna McQuinn and Rosalind Beardshaw's Lola at the Library.

I think it worked because at the end of my storytime I explained to the kids that I had to go back to the library to do my work. "Remember," I told them, "I have to go buzz in the books." There were lots of nodding heads at that and then I was reminded to bring lots more books next time. With kids like that, who wouldn't?

[Additions for Family Storytime for ages 3-8 with craft.  Added 1-8-2011]

Additional Books:

Bears! Bears! Bears! by Bob Barner
Big Bear Hug by Nicholas Oldland

Big Smelly Bear by Britta Teckentrup
Scare A Bear by Kathy-jo Wargin and pictures by John Bendall-Brunello

Three Bears Craft

from Kathy Ross's Numbers Book