Storytime: Fractured Fairy Tales

Storytime for older kids: K-5.  Mixed-up fairy tales including dragons and magic.


 
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs 
by Jon Scieszka with pictures by Lane Smith


 
The Frog Prince Continued
by Jon Scieszka and pictures by Steve Johnson






The Frog Princess?
by Pamela Mann and pictures by Jill Newton
(Great librarian humor.  I don't want to ruin the ending, but see if you can get your hands on it.)


 
Hush Little Dragon
by Boni Ashburn and pictures by Kelly Murphy


 
Poof 
by John O'Brien


 
The Wizard, The Fairy, and the Magic Chicken 
by Helen Lester and pictures by Lynn Munsinger


 
Snoring Beauty
by Bruce Hale and pictures by Howard Fine
(my favorite new read-aloud!)

Storytime: Trucks

Storytime for first grade.



Truck Talk: Rhymes on Wheels
by Bobbi Katz

 
Truck Duck
by Michael Rex

 
Seals on the Bus
by Lenny Hort and pictures by G. Brian Karas

 
The Bus for Us
by Suzanne Bloom  



Windshield Wipers 
(while moving upper arms together)

Windshield wiper,
windshield wipers
What do they do all day?
Swish, swish, swish, swish.
They wipe the rain away.



and of course,  
The Wheels on the Bus.

Storytime: Bugs (for the big kids)

Storytime for older kids (grades K-5).



Insect Soup: Bug Poems
by Barry Louis Polisar and pictures by David Clark

(Insect Soup had better reactions than Insectlopedia)



Insectlopedia
by Douglas Florian



The Spider and the Fly
by Mary Howitt and pictures by Tony DiTerlizzi



There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
by Simms Taback



Bug Faces
by Darlyne A. Murawski
(With some groups I couldn't read everything on the pages, but they loved the pictures anyway.)

Storytime: Hats

Stories for the older kids (grades K-2).



Sherman Crunchley
by Laura Numeroff and Nate Evans and pictures by Tim Bowers



Caps For Sale
by Esphyr Slobodkina



Aunt Lucy Went to Buy A Hat
by Alice Low and pictures by Laura Huliska-Beith



The Magic Hat
by Mem Fox and pictures by Tricia Tusa

I wasn't too big a fan of Sherman Crunchley, but I wanted to do a storytime with The Magic Hat and Caps for Sale. I might have mentioned this before but I love asking the kids to be my monkeys in Caps for Sale. There is nothing like a classroom full of kids enthusiastically playing along-- and the "tsk, tsk, tsk" sounds great from so many little mouths. Any book recommendations for replacing Sherman the next time I do this storytime?