We started  with some spooky fun today with Kathryn O. Galbraith’s Boo, Bunny! After reading about two brave bunnies trick-or-treating in the dark, we went on a ghost hunt (a variation of last week’s We’re Going on a Bear Hunt). It was a lot of fun being brave together and finding a ghost in a haunted house!

The ghost hunt gave me the wiggles, so after working out those wiggles with body rhymes, we read Wiggle by Doreen Cronin. “Would you join me for a wiggle? Would you wiggle on the moon? I think we’re out of wiggles now. See you wiggle soon!”

Good-Night, Owl! by Pat Hutchins was our next book. Poor owl can’t get to sleep with so many other animals making noise! After hearing some of the sounds different birds make , we read a really fun read-aloud, Antoinette Portis’s Froodle. When little brown bird decides to say something other than “peep,” the other birds try being silly, too!

Finally, we read a beautiful fall story, The Little Yellow Leaf  by Carin Berger. One leaf has a hard time letting go of his tree like all the other leaves until he finds a friend.

Thank you for joining me for storytime. See you next week!

~*Nicole

It’s almost Halloween, a day that’s a favorite with kids and grownups alike!  There are so many funny and/or slightly scary picture books about Halloween that it’s hard to choose what to read.  Today these were the ones we enjoyed:

Farmer Brown doesn’t like Halloween, but the animals in his barn sure do!  Farmer Brown hides in his house; but he still hears lots of scary noises that he can’t identify.  What’s really going on?  Read the story to find out!

Farm stands all over New England are piled high with pumpkins!   Soon we’ll be making pie with them, but for Halloween they turn into pumpkin heads!  This story showed us jack o’lanterns of all shapes and sizes.  Simple text highlights the large, realistic painted illustrations.

Our next story told the tale of a little old lady who had an unusual experience on her walk home on a dark and windy night.  This story is a little bit scary, but it involves a lot of fun repetition, and all is happily resolved at the end.

Our last story had lots of flaps to lift, and depending on which way we lifted (left, right, up, or down) we either found something nice or nasty in the witch’s kitchen.  Would you rather eat biscuits and cake, or spiders and snakes?  You never know what you’ll find in the witch’s kitchen!  Happy Halloween to all!