Jean Little Library: This week at the library; or, What if I did Dr. Seuss in July?

What's Happening

Toddlers 'n' Books (2 sessions)
Very busy. We are in an upswing of naughty teen behavior, which is always trying.

Winter Wigglers Obstacle Course
Outreach Storytimes: Chomp! Let's Eat! (4 sessions)
It's snaining, naturally, since I have never yet done a Dr. Seuss program without snow in the near vicinity. I wonder what would happen if I did it in July? Probably a tornado. I think I said "Teens in the teen area!" a gazillion times today. And cleaned a toilet.

Kids Listening To Books

"That was an awfully short story" (said after basically every book)
Run for your life by Lola Schaefer - we mostly just mentioned each animal briefly and then ran like crazy. I did ask the beginning as a question, "animals that eat animals are..." and all the kids yelled "hungry!"
Poor little guy by Elanna Allen. This one went really well - enough knew what a puffer fish was that they passed it on to the others and they all laughed hysterically. Most of them didn't get the switch in perspective though.
My awesome summer by P. Mantis - this was too old for the four year olds, but the teachers snickered.
Hungry Lion by Ruth Cummins - lots of hysterical laughter and speculation as to what had eaten who at the end of the story.
I will not eat you by Adam Lehrhaupt - they told me this was not scary at all, but they liked it anyways. They all decided that Theodore would eat the little boy later.
One day in the eucalyptus eucalyptus tree by Daniel Bernstrom. They were very excited to note that this was a rhyming book. They must have been learning about rhymes recently. They all listened quite well to the bouncy rhythms and yelled at the end that there was a crocodile.
Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion by Alex T. Smith. I don't think they got the Little Red Riding Hood reference, but they giggled at the lion's mane and were quite interested in the story.

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