Othologies

Patron-of-the-Day:

A polite young boy came up to the desk inquiring,

“Do you have a list of all the othologies?”

He explained to me how he read almost all of them.

“I found Dragonology (he’s read it), Pirateology (read it), Mythology…”

The boy’s eyes got really big with this title.

“Oh! Do you have that one- Mythology?”

I told him to follow me, we went into the stacks where the immortals lived- Zeus, Hades, Prometheus, Aphrodite, etc. As we were approaching the big book, he started saying,

“All of my friends have almost read this book…” (I love how kids get all passionate about things.) “THERE IT IS! THIS IS SUCH A RARE FIND!! THANK YOU!!!”

I was very pleased to have found this treasure for him.

BUGS! Storytime

Tonight’s storytime theme was BUGS…eww. I asked for a very brave volunteer from the audience, whom I was going to cocoon, and then all of a sudden all these kids started raising their hands, so I picked a girl, but then there was already a boy standing right next to me. I told him he could help me toilet paper the girl into a cocoon which he was so excited that he almost started wrapping all the way up her head, and I had to tell him that she needs air to breath, so I had him stop at the chin.

Everybody watched in anticipation. Then I told the girl, “Spread your wings, come out of your cocoon!” and the whole audience went, “Yay!” and clapped. Then we all pretended to play with butterflies as I threw scarves into the audience…

BUGS Storytime set list:

*The Very Hungry Caterpillar (book + flannelboard pieces)

*Cocoon! (toilet paper + child)

*Butterflies (song + scarves)

*”Two Little Blackbirds” (song + puppets)

*”Head, Shoulders, knees and toes” (song)

*”Itsy Bitsy Spider” (song + puppet)

*Polliwog + Caterpillar (movie)

*butterfly stickers!