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Story Hour Kits

This collection of Story Hour Kits is available from the Willimantic Library Service Center for loan to libraries. If you wish to borrow an item from this collection please contact your local public library. For questions or suggestions call or email Linda Williams (lwilliams@cslib.org or 860-456-1717 x302)

Bathtime: Casey in the Bath (DeFelice), Harry and the Dirty Dog (Zion). King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub (Wood) and No More Water in the Tub! (Arnold)
Finding Courage:  Brave Martha (Apple), Harry and the Terrible Whatzit (Gackenbach), Lizzy and Skunk (Fitzpatrick), and Some Things are Scary (Heide)
Foxes: Flossie and the Fox (McKissack), Fox’s Dream (Tejima), Hattie and the Fox (Fox), and What’s in Fox’s Sack? (Galdone)
Room in the Bed!: The Biggest Bed in the World (Camp), Is There Room on the Feather Bed? (Gray), May we Sleep Here Tonight? (Koide), and Bearsie Bear and the Surprise Sleepover Party (Waber)
Seeds: The Tiny Seed (Carle), A Handful of Sunshine (Eclare), Titch (Hutchins), and The Carrot Seed (Kraus)
Wheels!: Mr. Gumpy’s Motor Car (Burningham), Freight Train (Crews), The Seals on the Bus (Hort), and Sheep in a Jeep (Shaw)
Other contents : Fox puppet, Paul Goble trains stamps with ink pad, Let's Sing Finger Plays (Glazer) cassette.

All Together Now: The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Asbjornsen), The Funny Little Woman (Mosel), and Pierre (Sendak)
Bedtime: The Sun’s Asleep Behind the Hill (Ginsburg), Peace at last (Murphy), and The Napping House (Wood)
Ducks: One Duck, Another Duck (Pomerantz), Three Ducks Went Wandering (Roy), I'm a Duck! (Sloat), and Have You Seen My Duckling? (Tafuri)
Hearing : Drummer Hoff (Emberley), I Hear (Isadora), and Too Much Noise (McGovern)
Oceans: Mister Seahorse (Carle), Swimmy (Lionni), Sophie’s Bucket (Stock), and Harry by the Sea (Zion)
Traveling: Tumble Bumble (Bond), What Next, Baby Bear? (Murphy), We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (Rosen), and Little Fox Goes to the End of the World (Tompert)
Other contents: The Flannel Board Storytelling Book (Sierra), Three Billy Goats Gruff puppets, Bernard Most Octopus stamp with ink pad, rhythm instruments, fish flannel board figures

Colors: Freight Train (Crews), Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue? (Hoban), and Colors (Hughes)
Get Dressed!: Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing (Barrett), Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? (Carlstrom), and How Do I Put It On? (Watanabe)
Kings & Queens: The Knight and the Dragon (DePaola), 17 Kings and 42 Elephants (Mahy), and King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub (Wood)
Outer Space Adventures: Space Case (Marshall), What Next, Baby Bear! (Murphy), and Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! I'm Off to the Moon! (Yaccarino)
Scary Stories: Ghosts Hour, Spook’s Hour (Bunting), Go Away, Big Green Monster! (Emberley), Harry and the Terrible Whatzit (Gackenbach), and The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything (Williams)
Snakes: Hide and Snake (Baker), Small Green Snake (Gray), Lizard’s Home (Shannon), and Mouse Count (Walsh)
Other contents: Old lady who swallowed the fly puppet, Edward Marshall Space Case stamp w/ink pad, Lady bug flannel board figures, Children's Greatest Hits Volume 2 cassette by Tom Glazer

Cats & Dogs: King of the Cats (Galdone), Whistle for Willie (Keats), The Owl and the Pussycat (Lear), and Hannah and Jack (Nethery)
Chicken & the Egg: The Chick and the Duckling (Ginsburg), Good Morning, Chick (Ginsburg), The Most Wonderful Egg (Heine), and Minerva Louise and the Colorful Eggs (Stoeke)
Food: The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Carle), Walter the Baker (Carle), Little Red Hen (Galdone), and Gregory, the Terrible Eater (Sharmat)
Music: The Wheels on the Bus (Kovalski), Abiyoyo (Seeger), Raccoon Tune (Shaw), and Bravo, Ernest and Celestine! (Vincent)
Shoes: My Best Shoes (Burton), Not So Fast, Songololo (Daly), The Elves and the Shoemaker (Galdone), and The Foot Book (Seuss)
Snow: The Snowy Day (Keats), Snow (Shulevitz), Henry the Explorer (Taylor), and Owl Moon (Yolen)
Other contents: Dog puppet, Eric Blegvad cat stamp w/ink pad, Rise and Shine cassette by Raffi, rhythm instruments, Snowman flannel board figures

Cats & Dogs: Angus and the Cat (Flack), Fat Cat (MacDonald), and Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard (Martin)
Hats: Martin’s Hats (Blos), A Three Hat Day (Geringer), Jennie’s Hat (Keats), and Caps for Sale (Slobodkina)
Jungle: Little Gorilla (Bornstein), Hot Hippo (Hadithi), and Love From Uncle Clyde (Parker)
Mice are Nice: Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (Cauley), Whose Mouse Are You? (Kraus), Frederick (Lionni), and The Maid, the Mouse, and the Odd Shaped House (Zelinsky)
Once Upon a Time: The Gingerbread Boy (Galdone), The Three Bears (Galdone), Three Little Pigs (Galdone), and Little Red Riding Hood (Hyman)
Rain: Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain (Aardema), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Barrett), Mushroom in the Rain (Ginsburg), and Letter to Amy (Keats)
Other contents: Gorilla puppet, Eric Blegvad cat stamp w/ink pad, Singable songs for the very young cassette by Raffi, hat box with hats, mirror

Babies: The Very Worst Monster (Hutchins), Peter’s Chair (Keats), and The Wild Baby (Prelutsky)
Bears: Corduroy (Freeman), The Three Bears (Galdone), and Deep in the Forest (Turkle)
Birthdays: Aunt Nina and Her Nephews and Nieces (Brandenburg), The Secret Birthday Message (Carle), A Birthday for Frances (Hoban), and Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present (Zolotow)
Magic: The Paper Crane (Bang), Strega Nona : An Old Tale (DePaola), and The Wizard, the Fairy and the Magic Chicken (Lester)
Sleeping: Bedtime for Frances (Hoban), Good Night, Owl (Hutchins), Quiet Night (Singer), and The Napping House (Wood)
Zoo: Dear Zoo (Campbell), May I Bring a Friend? (De Regniers), A Children’s Zoo (Hoban), and Smile if You’re Human (Layton)
Other contents: Three bears puppets, Don Freeman Bear stamp with ink pad, Mainly Mother Goose cassette by Sharon, Lois and Bram

Bears: Mooncake (Asch), Teddy Bears Cure a Cold (Gretz), and Little Bear (Minarik)
Cats: Have You Seen My Cat? (Carle), Millions of Cats (Gag), Three Little Kittens (Galdone), and Cat Count (Lewin)
Farms: The Very Busy Spider (Carle), Ox-Cart Man (Hall), Barn Dance (Martin), and Old MacDonald had a Farm (Pearson)
Frogs: Seven Froggies Went to School (Duke), The Caterpillar and the Polliwog (Kent), and Frog and Toad are Friends (Lobel)
Hats: The Scarecrow’s Hat (Brown), Whose hat? (Miller), Caps for Sale (Slobodkina), and Ho for a Hat! (Smith)
Wind: Gilberto and the Wind (Ets), The Wind Blew (Hutchins), and Who Took the Farmer’s Hat? (Nodset)
Other contents: Frog puppet, Arnold Lobel frog stamp and stamp pad, hat box with (5) hats, Early childhood songs cassette by Ella Jenkins, frog flannel board figures.

Dinosaurs: Patrick's Dinosaurs (Carrick), The Trouble with Tyrannosaurus Rex (Cauley), If the Dinosaurs Came Back (Most), and Tyrannosaurus was a Beast (Prelutsky)
Food: The Shopping Basket (Burningham), The Gingerbread Boy (Galdone), and Blueberries for Sal (McCloskey)
Growing Up: When You Were a Baby (Jonas), Pig Pig Grows Up (McPhail), and You’ll Soon Grow Into Them, Titch (Hutchins)
Look Again!: Arthur’s Nose (Brown), Where’s Spot? (Hill), Look Again! (Hoban), and Look! Look! Look! (Hoban)
Magic: Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse (Lionni), The Boy Who Was Followed Home (Mahy), Do Not Open (Turkle), and Heckedy Peg (Wood)
Zoo: Dear Zoo (Campbell), May I Bring a Friend? (De Regniers), and Sam Who Never Forgets (Rice)
Other contents: Felt Board fun for Everyday & Holidays (Wilmes), Dinosaur puppet, Olivier Dunrea dragon stamp w/ink pad, noses, mirror, More singable songs for the very young cassette by Raffi

Bedtime: Goodnight Moon (Brown), Sleepy Bear (Dabcovich), Sam’s Bath (Lindgren), and Goodnight, Goodnight (Rice)
Colors: The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Carle), Red, Blue, Yellow Shoe (Hoban), Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Martin), and Growing Colors (McMillan)
Farm: The Very Busy Spider (Carle), Who Took the Farmer’s Hat? (Nodset), and  Old MacDonald had a Farm (Pearson)
Hide-and-Seek: Each Peach Pear Plum (Ahlberg), Anno’s Peekaboo (Anno), Where’s Spot? (Hill), and Rosie’s Walk (Hutchins)
Teddy Bear's Birthday: Ask Mr. Bear (Flack), Good Morning, Chick (Ginsburg), Happy Birthday, Sam (Hutchins), and Benny Bakes a Cake (Rice)
Zoo: Dear Zoo (Campbell), A Children’s Zoo (Hoban), Sam Who Never Forgets (Rice), and Me Baby You Baby (Wolff)
Other contents: Spot doll, spider puppet, Pat Hutchins Rosie the hen stamp w/ink pad, face paints, mirror, Music for One's and Two's cassette by Tom Glazer

Big & Little: Just Like Daddy (Asch), When You Grow Up (Goodings), Titch (Hutchins), and When You Were a Baby (Jonas)
Dressing Up: Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? (Carlstrom), Whose Hat? (Miller), and How Do I Put It On? (Watanabe)
Eating: The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Galdone), The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Carle), and Feast for Ten (Falwell)
Exploring: Mr. Gumpy’s Outing (Burningham), Spot’s First Walk (Hill), Rosie’s Walk (Hutchins) and What Does Bunny See? (Park)
Monkey and Friends: Little Gorilla (Bornstein), Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree (Christelow), Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb (Perkins), and Caps for Sale (Slobodkina)
Spot's Birthday: Don't Wake Up Mama! (Christelow), Ask Mr. Bear (Flack), Spot’s Birthday Party (Hill), and Benny Bakes a Cake (Rice)
Other contents: Spot doll, Mark Brown Arthur stamp w/ink pad, Music for One's and Two's cassette by Tom Glazer Themes: Exploring, Big & little, Dressing up, Once upon a time, Monkey & Friends, Spot's Birthday Party

Cakes & Cookies: A Cake All For Me! (Beil), Spot Bakes a Cake (Hill), If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Numeroff), and Bunny Cakes (Wells)
Cars: Mr. Gumpy’s Motor Car (Burningham), In the Driver's Seat (Haynes), Sheep in a Jeep (Shaw), and Big Yellow Taxi (Wilson-Max)
Colors: White Rabbit’s Color Book (Baker), The Color Box (Dodds), Lunch (Fleming), and Mouse Paint (Walsh)
Growing Things: Flower Garden (Bunting), Growing Vegetable Soup (Ehlert), The Surprise Garden (Hall), and Mud (Ray)
Nursery Rhymes & Stories: Big Fat Hen (Baker), Knock at the Door : And Other Baby Action Rhymes (Chorao), Three Little Kittens (Galdone), and Mary Had a Little Lamb (Hale)
On the Farm: Big Red Barn (Brown), Barnyard Banter (Fleming), Old MacDonald (Souhami), and This and That (Sykes)
Other contents: Literate Beginnings : Programs for Babies & Toddlers (Jeffery), Toddle On Over : Developing Infant and Toddler LIterature Programs (Davis)