Notes from the Story Room

One of my family storytime programs this summer will be about robots. There are plenty of books about robots but I try to have a variety of...

I wrote a version of this story for a "Night Animals" storytime in 2012. It is based on the popular folktale theme, be careful w...

I found the story this is based on while searching for stories for my Worms Family Storytime which took place last summer. I used it even...

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams is another story that is popular with Flannel Friday folk this time o...

While searching the Web for folktales about animals that lived underground, I came across the website of storyteller Dr. Mike Lockett . Amo...

While I was searching for worm stories for an upcoming program I came across a story called "The Art Contest" told by an ESL stud...

One of my family storytime programs this summer will be about "Worms." This theme ties in with the summer reading program theme, ...

The Most Wonderful Egg in the World by Helme Heine is a great story that has been adapted for the flannel board. I found one with fantasti...

This post is part of a series of posts about "Telling One Story Five Ways." It is also my Flannel Friday contribution for this w...

This week's Flannel Friday post was written to go along with this summer's CSLP theme, "Dig Into Reading." The story was...

This story can be told two ways, either as a draw and tell story or as a board story. Karen’s Valentine’s Day Surprise Linda Meuse 1...

I wrote the following for an upcoming family story time program on penguins. Porter Penguin’s Adventure by Linda Meuse January 11, 2...

As I was weeding our professional collection last year, I came across a collection of puppet plays,  Pocketful of Puppets: Three Plump Fish...

I came across a version of this Ojibwa story when searching for folktales about tails for my next Family Story Time. The version that I bas...

This summer one of our preschool storytimes featured hedgehogs . Since there are not too many stories available about hedgehogs, I searched...

I needed a board story for a recent " Dreams " storytime. I found a story from 1001 Nights that I used as a starting point for t...