It's The Little Things!

You know the saying "it's the little things that make you happy"? I love that saying because it is so true! About 3 weeks ago, my hubby's BFF came to the library and stapled down our wooden train tracks to our train table. Story Time was the next day, and I made a grand Tah Da! and showed off the beautiful constructed train table lay out. My little ones were in love. Their eyes lit up. Their mouths hung open, and there was a collective ooooohhhh.
I asked them to guess what was new about the train table, and none could answer me, because they were thrilled with the train table and couldn't stop playing long enough to form an answer in their happy little brains. It wasn't a mess as it usually was. There was no asking for Mommy to come help put the tracks together. It was there in front of them in all its glory!!
It made me happy seeing that they were happy. That's all that matters!

The Hunger Games!

I am soooo ready for this movie. See the link below to see that I am not alone!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204603004577267832212316716.html

All three of The Hunger Games books were so interesting, and nailbiting that I couldn't put them down. I was literally cooking food on my stove, and reading The Hunger Games at the same time, because I could not stop reading!!

When I heard what it was about, I thought "why would I want to read a book about kids that had to fight to the death????", but I knew at that time it was being made into a movie and so I thought it would be a good YA book to read. I had given myself the personal goal of reading one YA or School age book in between my adult novels. After I finished the book, I ran in and snatched up the second "Catching Fire", and the third "Mockingjay". That was at a time when you could still find these books on the shelf (good luck now! place a hold!)

I just re-read The Hunger Games (which I had to borrow, cause really, you have to place a hold and be prepared to be #84 on the holds list) because I am planning a Hunger Games program at the library. I am so glad I did. I had forgotten little things that had happened and I will admit, that I read it just as fast the second time, even though I knew how it ended!

So jump on The Hunger Games band wagon with me. You won't be disappointed!

:) Miss Jennifer

Story Time

Enjoy songs, stories and crafts at the library with Miss Jennifer.
Storytimes are Wednesdays & Thursdays at 10:00 am.
No registration required.
For more information,
call the library at 610-273-3303
or email, jspade@ccls.org.

Hello Fellow Book Lovers!

This is all new to me, and hopefully will be fun and helpful to you. This is basically a
"test blog" paragraph until I figure out what I am doing. Since I have started working at the Honey Brook Library, I have wanted to update our blog. So here is it, one year and 2 weeks later, I am finally achieving that goal!

PRESCHOOL STORYTIME

Enjoy songs, stories and crafts at the library with Miss Jennifer.
Storytimes are Wednesdays & Thursdays at 10:00 am
from September 14th through December 15, 2011.
No registration required.
For more information,
call the library at 610-273-3303
or email, jspade@ccls.org.

More Penguin Books

If you really love penguins, try looking for these titles! To easily find Penguins books for children in the Chester County online catalog, choose the subject option and type in PENGUINS JUVENILE FICTION. You'll find the listing of all the penguin books cataloged in Chester county. There are over 100!

365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental
Solo by Paul Geraghty
Tacky The Penguin by Helen Lester
Quickly, Quigley by Jeanne M. Gravois

Penguin Dreams by V.L. Walsh
Little Penguin's Tale by Audrey Wood
Flip and Flop by Dawn Apperley

Where Is Home Little Pip? by Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman
I am Pangoo the Penguin by Satomi Ichikawa
Flip's day by Petr Horácek

Cuddly Dudley by Jez Alborough
Augustine by Mélanie Watt
The Christmas Penguin by Mary Packard
My penguin Osbert by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Penguin Pete by Marcus Pfister
Also in the series...
Penguin Pete and Pat
Penguin Pete Ahoy
Penguin Pete and Little Tim

A preview for next week...

Our theme for our last story time before Summer Reading starts will be penguins. Our star book will be If You Were A Penguin which was chosen by Pennsylvania for the 2009 One Book Every Young Child title. To learn more, go to http://www.paonebook.org/

For preview of the craft we'll be doing check out the picture!

We'll be using glue and tape, but hopefully I'll have everything cut out before hand so we can keep the scissors away from all the little fingers.