Something Musical Happened At The Library

Offers children's librarians practical tips and strategies for integrating music into library storytimes, providing eight ready-to-use lesson plans that utilize different types of music for story hours.

Offers children's librarians practical tips and strategies for integrating music into library storytimes, providing eight ready-to-use lesson plans that utilize different types of music for story hours.

Children's music has been strangely silent in library story times--until now. Rob Reid, renowned children's programming expert, offers a companion to accompany Children's Jukebox, Second Edition, Here's a comprehensive guide to make music an integral and engaging part of children's story hour! Drawing on thousands of hours of listening and programming. Reid selects the best of the best into eight ready-to-use comprehensive lesson plans. Use this abundant mix of picture books paired with kid-tested musical recordings to - Get up to speed fast to make music and everyday part of your programs - Build your own story times with innovative and fun pairings of books and recordings - Enliven any story time by incorporating simple song types--from call and response to ever-popular rounds - Identify children's picture books and stories rich with musical themes

Offers strategies and resources for youth services librarians who want to introduce humor into their programs, featuring tricks of the humor trade, programming models, and select bibliographies of humor books.

Contains twenty original songs designed to encourage literacy development, each with related activities, and includes a rhyming dictionary of commonly used one-syllable words.

This book serves as both a textbook and reference for faculty and students in LIS courses on storytelling and a professional guide for practicing librarians, particularly youth services librarians in public and school libraries. Storytelling: Art and Technique serves professors, students, and practitioners alike as a textbook, reference, and professional guide. It provides practical instruction and concrete examples of how to use the power of story to build literacy and presentation skills, as well as to create community in those same educational spaces. This text illustrates the value of storytelling, covers the history of storytelling in libraries, and offers valuable guidance for bringing stories to contemporary listeners, with detailed instructions on the selection, preparation, and presentation of stories. It also provides guidance around the planning and administration of a storytelling program. Topics include digital storytelling, open mics and slams, and the neuroscience of storytelling. An extensive and helpful section of resources for the storyteller is included in an expanded Part V of this edition.

A listing of 547 songs contained on 308 recordings for children, organized alphabetically under 170 subject headings. Includes a core list of forty-six recommendations.