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  • Food for Thought
  • Featured Book List - Going to School
  • Choosing Books for Babies
  • New Books
  • Fingerplays & Songs
  • Storytimes at your Library

  • Food for Thought
    Recently I opened a fortune cookie that said: "Promote literacy. Buy a box of fortune cookies today." It's a reminder that we can read words out loud anywhere, anytime to young children to help them get ready to read.

    A favorite quote: "Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."
    from Emilie Buchwald, publisher and founder of Milkweed Editions.
       Fortune Cookie

    Featured Book List - Going to School
    Stories include going to pre-school and kindergarten.
    click to request Wow! School!
    School comes alize for Izzy! Discover and experience a new school in these colorful pictures.
    Easy Picture Book
    click to request The Boy on the Bus
    Hop on board to oink, quack, and cluck your way to school.
    Easy Picture Book
    more books about Going to School

    Choosing Books for Babies
    Babies love the sound of your voice. These books are especially fun to read out loud!
    What Shall We Do with the Boo-Hoo Baby?
    Animals offer baby everything from bananas to cat chow, to moos, quacks, meows and bow-wows.
    Easy Picture Book
    click to request Jazz Baby
    When baby wakes up, everyone creates upbeat music. "Grandpa TOOT-TOOTS. Granny sings scat. Bitty-boppin' Baby goes RAT-TAT-TAT!"
    Easy Picture Book
    click to request
    more Favorites for Babies

    New Books
    Note: Click on book covers to go to the Hennepin County Library catalog.

    Potato Joe

    Papá and me

    1 2 Buckle My Show

    Peekaboo Bedtime
    more New Picture Books

    Fingerplays & Songs
    TRAFFIC LIGHT
    Red says STOP
    Green says GO
    Yellow says wait
    You better go slow.

    Red says STOP
    Green says GO
    Three special colors
    All in a row.

    Red says STOP
    Green says GO
    Follow the traffic light
    Everywhere you go!

    Traffic Light
    COLORS
    Put your hands on some RED, on some red
    Put your hands on some red, on some red
    Put your hands on some red
    Then put them on your HEAD
    Put your hands on some red, on some red.

    Put your hands on some BLUE . . .
    Then put them on your SHOE . . .

    Put your hands on some BLACK . . .
    Then put them behind your BACK . . .

    Put your hands on some WHITE . . .
    Then send a kiss "good NIGHT" . . .

    Put your hands on some YELLOW . . .
    Then pretend to eat some JELLO . . .

    Put your hands on some GREEN . . .
    Then hide 'em so they can't be SEEN . . .

    Storytimes at your Library
    Many storytimes require registration and fill up early. Registration is available online, by phone and in person. These lists include storytimes at suburban and Minneapolis libraries.
    • Baby Storytime - for children birth to 24 months.
      Delight and stimulate your baby's senses with books and music.
    • Toddler Storytime - for children ages 2 and 3.
      Nurture a love of books. Learn letters, sounds, and new words.
    • Preschool Storytime - for children ages 4 to 6.
      Enjoy stories together and build language skills.
    • Family Storytime - for children 2 years old and up.
      Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement with your children.
    • World Language Storytime - for children 2 years old and up.
      Experience the world in other languages.
    see all free Storytimes at Hennepin County Libraries

    see more events at Hennepin County Libraries


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    August 2008
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