The Handbook for Storytime Programs - Softcover

Judy Freeman; Caroline Feller Bauer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838912656 ISBN 13: 9780838912652

Publisher: ALA Editions, 2015

Synopsis

Librarians, teachers, parents, and caregivers can energize storytimes and curricula with this informative and entertaining resource filled with engaging and creative ways to integrate storytelling and story-related materials into programs for children, ages birth-12. Readers will find a treasure trove of tales, books, songs, and poems to share, plus a host of exciting and easily adaptable children’s literature-based activities. This handbook provides:

• Descriptions of a variety of programs for young children, from lap times for babies to programs for toddlers and nursery school age children, on up to grade 2
• A “quicklist” of 150 thematic program-starters for children ages 1-7, on popular topics such as animals, the natural world, families, vehicles, and holidays
• Story jokes, think stories, convoluted logic puzzlers, scary tales, funny stories, and dozens of other thematic program-starters for tweens
• Methods for telling stories using pictures, objects, crafts, puppetry, songs, creative drama, and magic
• Materials such as story scripts, songs, wordplay, poems, annotated booklists, and non-narrative sources for storytelling
• Guidance to help story programmers pull together cohesive themed programs and story hours

No storytelling programmer will want to be without this expansive and instantly useful handbook.

About this title

About the Author:

JUDY FREEMAN (www.JudyReadsBooks.com) is a well-known consultant, writer, and speaker on children's literature and storytelling, and a visiting lecturer at the School of Information, and Library Science at Pratt Institute in New York City. A former school librarian, she gives conferences, workshops, speeches, and performances throughout the U.S. and the world for teachers, librarians, parents, and children. Judy's Library Unlimited books include Once Upon a Time: Using Storytelling, Creative Drama, and Reader's Theater with Children in Grades PreK-6, the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, and the yearly The Winners Handbook, reviewing her top 100 children's books of the past year. Judy's latest and most exciting project is writing children's book reviews and other content for author James Patterson's new website for parents, librarians, and teachers, www.READKIDDOREAD.com.

Caroline Feller Bauer is an author, storyteller, teacher, and librarian. She travels frequently, lecturing most often on her favorite subject: bringing children and books together. Ms. Bauer is the editor of several collections of stories and poems, including Snowy Day, Halloween, and Valentine's Day. She lives in Miami Beach, FL.

Nadine Bernard Westcott is the illustrator of a number of acclaimed books for children, including the classic song Over the River and Through the Wood; and How To Grow A Picket Fence by Mary Louise Cuneo. She divides her time between Woodstock, VT, and Nantucket, MA.

About this edition

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0838912656
• ISBN 13: 9780838912652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336