"Keba Keba wa...."

I bought Keba Keba years ago when I saw the Murakami exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. It's a cute story with bright, graphic illustrations, about this creature called Keba Keba who decides to share all his wonderful colors with objects and nature. In the end, he is all white and transforms into a cloud, floating away, watching over everyone and everything. My copy has english next to the Japanese kanji. I'm sure most kids have never heard of it and the story is very  reminiscent of Rainbow Fish and the Elmer series. It would be fun to read Keba Keba during storytime and pair it with the aforementioned titles.

Dooby Dooby Moo~ *sings*

Mary Ellen just told me about this book. I read it at the desk and it was soooo cute! She used it at her school; I believe the teachers helped act it out for the elementary school kids as she read it aloud. The Principal of her school, who has a good voice, sang in the background. She said it was a huge hit! I would love to do this with a group of kids sometime and maybe even have them take turns acting it out if we have time.

RLY K

The kids had a special treat when Janet invited me to do storytime with her on Friday! Some of the kids remembered me from the times I've filled in for Erin, and now that Janet is back at RVC, this is her regular group. It was a slow day with everyone in Children's in Philly for PLA, so Janet thought it would be fun for the kids to have to readers! It was fun for me to of course, since I love doing it and I got to watch Janet lead storytime (Janet is such a pro). I even picked up some good lines to use to get their attention before starting like "show me that your ready: sit up straight, pretzel legs, eyes front, mouth closed, but maybe, just maybe, your lips can form a smile"


I read two books, including:

The kids had never heard of the Super Hungry Dinosaur before and they loved it! It was a fun choice to do. They were laughing like crazy! The new Lemons Are Not Red, but were still enthusiastic about shouting out the answers. Laura Vaccaro Seeger is a local author and the copy I read them was autographed, which was pretty cool. I loved the way this concept book was laid out, where there were cut out shapes and solid, painted backgrounds. The cut out of the lemon, for example, started against a red backround, and when you moved it over, it went to the yellow side. So, lemons are not red, they are yellow.

Janet read two St. Patrick's Day books. They danced to "head, shoulders, knees and toes" and a couple of other similar songs. They didn't know it as well and enjoyed it more because of that.