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  • Focus: Playing with Words

    March 2025

    This month’s issue of “The Bookworm” provides lots of great ideas, activities, and resources to help you sing, rhyme, and play with words and sounds with your child.

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    Babies and Toddlers: “Whose Knees Are These” by Jabari Asim– English / Español

    Preschool: “Clap Your Hands” by Lorinda Bryan Cauley– English / Español

    Kindergarten: “The Gruffalo” by Julia Donaldson – English / Español

  • Focus: Narrative Skills

    November 2023

    Babies and Toddlers: Find Spot at the Library by Eric Hill – English / Spanish

    Preschool: Maybe a Bear Ate It by Robie Harris – English / Spanish

    Kindergarten: Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise by David Ezra Stein – English / Spanish

  • Focus: Early Literacy / Great Read Alouds

    October 2023

    Babies and Toddlers: Goodnight, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann – English / Spanish

    Preschool: Groovy Joe: Ice Cream and Dinosaurs by Eric Litwin – English / Spanish

    Kindergarten: Too Many Toys by David Shannon – English / Spanish

  • Focus: Summer Library Programs

    May 2023

    Babies and Toddlers: Global Babies from the Global Fund for Children – English / Spanish

    Preschool: Fry Bread by Kevin Maillard Noble – English / Spanish

    Kindergarten: All Are Welcome by Alexandria Penfold – English / Spanish

  • Focus: Use of Print

    April 2023

    Babies and Toddlers: Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell – English / Spanish

    Preschool: Waiting Is Not Easy by Mo Willems – English / Spanish

    Kindergarten: Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt – English / Spanish

  • Focus: Narrative Skills

    March 2023

    Babies and Toddlers: In the Rain by Elizabeth Spurr – English / Spanish

    Preschool: Have You Seen My Duckling? by Nancy Tafuri – English / Spanish

    Kindergarten: Chalk by Bill Thomson – English / Spanish

  • Focus: Letter Knowledge

    February 2023

    Babies and Toddlers: Mouse Shapes / Figuras y ratones by Ellen Stoll Walsh – English / Spanish

    Preschool: I Stink! by Kate McMullan – English / Spanish

    Kindergarten: Superhero ABC by Bob McLeod – English / Spanish

  • Focus: Vocabulary/Concept Books

    January, 2023

    • Babies and Toddlers: Where Is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox – English / Spanish
    • Preschool: We All Went on Safari, by Laurie Krebs – English / Spanish
    • Kindergarten: How Many Snails? by Paul Giganti, Jr. – English / Spanish
  • Focus: Playing with Words

    December, 2022

    • Babies and Toddlers: The Real Mother Goose Board Book, by Blanche Fisher Wright – English / Spanish
    • Preschool: Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, by Sherri Duskey Rinker – English / Spanish
    • Kindergarten: Pig the Pug, by Aaron Blabey – English / Spanish
  • Focus: Information Books

    November, 2022

    • Babies and Toddlers: Puppy Talk, by J. C. Coates – English / Spanish
    • Preschool: Red-Eyed Tree Frog, by Joy Cowley – English / Spanish
    • Kindergarten: What If You Had Animal Ears? by Sandra Markle – English / Spanish
  • Focus: What Is Early Literacy?

    October, 2022

    • Babies and Toddlers: I Will Talk to You, Little One, by Phyllis E. Grann – English / Spanish
    • Preschool: Lola at the Library, by Anna McQuinn – English / Spanish
    • Kindergarten: Charlie Cook’s Favorite Book, by Julia Donaldson – English / Spanish
  • Focus: Information Books, Summer Reading

    May, 2022

    • Babies and Toddlers: Ocean Life, by Jill McDonald – English / Spanish
    • Preschool: Ocean Friends: A Journey Beneath the Sea, by Anna Krusinski – English / Spanish
    • Kindergarten: Baby Orca, by Mary Batten – English / Spanish
  • Focus: Vocabulary

    April, 2022

    • Babies and Toddlers: Can You Find…A Lion in the Neighborhood?/ Dónde está… ¿un león en el vecindario? by Brett Medino – English / Spanish
    • Preschool: Owl Babies, by Martin Waddell – English / Spanish
    • Kindergarten: Big Chickens Fly the Coop, by Leslie Helakoski – English / Spanish