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STORYTIME @ HOME
Youth Services staff has created special resources to help facilitate a fun storytime experience in your home. We’ve outlined early literacy activities to help keep kids reading, singing, playing, writing, and talking every day.
1) The umbrella
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carlos goes into the cloud forest to look for animals, but he manages to miss seeing them even though they have an adventure with his umbrella.
3) Jaguarundi
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Although the other animals also feel threatened by the encroachment of humans, only Rundi and Coati journey north in search of a safer place to live.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 6
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.
8) Monkey time
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Monkey tries to catch the brightly colored--and tasty-looking--minutes on the minute tree in his forest. Introduces basic concepts about time and how time passes and is measured"--
10) Kyle goes alone
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Kyle the sloth has to go to the bathroom, he must make the long trip down to the forest floor all alone, but soon finds lots of friends along his journey.
Author
Language
English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Children
Indigineous Peoples
Native American Heritage Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
Indigineous Peoples
Native American Heritage Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
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Description
Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in an illustrated story that's complemented by back matter about the Asháninka community.
Author
Language
Español
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Formats
Description
Explora las maravillas de la Amazonía con Zonia, una niña asháninka, cuyas alegres aventuras en la selva se interrumpen un día por un misterioso y desconcertante descubrimiento. La selva es el hogar de Zonia. Es su jardín y su patio, su vecindario y su parque. Cada mañana, la selva llama a Zonia. Cada mañana, ella responde: le dice "hola" a la familia de perezosos, saluda al oso hormiguero, da una carrera con el veloz jaguar... Una mañana,...
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2016: Lea volume 2
Girl of the year Lea volume 2
Girl of the year. 2016 Lea volume 2
Girl of the year Lea volume 2
Girl of the year. 2016 Lea volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
During a hike with her brother through the Amazon rainforest, fifth-grader Lea discovers a badly injured baby sloth.
18) Gogi's gambit
Author
Series
Lost rainforest volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Gogi and the other shadowwalkers race to save their magical rainforest home before the Ant Queen makes it her own"--
Author
Series
Mary Pope Osborne's Magic tree house volume 6
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Retells, in graphic novel form, the tale of eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie, who are whisked away to the Amazon rain rainforest for a high-stakes adventure"--
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