If You're a Monster and You Know It -- 10/14/25

Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am. A monthly virtual Story Time is posted the first Tuesday of the month on the library's Facebook page.  It is available to view for one month before the next video is posted.

Click HERE for this month's virtual story time.

Skeleton Hiccups by Margery Cuyler
I Just Ate My Friend by Heidi McKinnon
If You're a Monster and You Know It by Rebecca & Ed Emberley

Books:
Buddy and the Bunnies in: Don't Play With Your Food by Bob Shea
Give Me Back My Bones! by Kim Norman
Go to Sleep, Little Creep by David Quinn
Jeepers Creepers: A Monsters ABC by Laura Leuck
The Most Terrible of All by Muon Van
The Skeleton in the Closet by Alice Schertle

Craft: Skeleton
- Print skeleton outline onto colored paper
- Print skull onto white paper and cut out

- Cut white paper into short paper strips (1/2" x 1-1/2")

- Glue strips onto skeleton outline for bones

- Glue head to top of skeleton

Extension Activities:

- Learn about our bones and different types of skeletons.  Check out an informational book from the library to look at true skeletons.

- Talk about friendship and how we should treat out friends.

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Skeleton Hiccups -- 10/18/22

Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am.  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)

Click HERE for this week's Story Time video.

Skeleton Hiccups by Margery Cuyler

Books:

Black and Bittern Was the Night by Robert Heidbreder

Bonaparte Falls Apart by Margery Cuyler

The Bones of Fred McFee by Eve Bunting

Give Me Back My Bones by Kim Norman

Samira and the Skeletons by Camilla Kuhn

Skeleton for Dinner by Margery Cuyler

The Skeleton in the Closet by Alice Schertle

Craft: Skeleton

- Print skull onto regular white paper

- Print skeleton guide onto colored paper making sure to leave room for skull to fit at top

- Cut white paper into small strips for bones

- Glue bones onto colored paper using the guide

- Glue skull to colored paper on top of bones

Extension Activities:

- Learn about the human body and the skeletal system.  Check out one of the nonfiction skeleton books from the library.

- Continue the skeleton craft fun by printing out some simple animal coloring sheets.  Then have your child draw or glue on white bone strips in what they think would be its skeletal system.

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Skeleton Hiccups (Monster) Story Time: October 1-2, 2018

Books:
Bonaparte Falls Apart by Margery Cuyler
Skeleton for Dinner by Margery Cuyler
Skeleton Hiccups by Margery Cuyler *
The Skeleton in My Closet by Alice Schertle *
Where's My Mummy? by Carolyn Crimi *

Craft: Skeleton Picture
Kids glued a skull and small strips of paper (bones) to a simple skeleton outline on a piece of paper.


Literacy Extensions:
- Practice number recognition when doing the craft.  Write numbers on the strips of paper (bones) and have your child glue them to the picture in order.
- Monsters are a common fear for young children.  Discuss reasons we fear things and why we do not need to fear the monsters we are reading about.


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Skeleton Hiccups Story Time: October 20-21, 2014

Books:
Bedtime for Monsters by Ed Vere
The Skeleton in the Closet by Alice Schertle *
Skeleton Hiccups by Margery Cuyler *
Thelonius Monster's Sky-High Fly Pie: A Revolting Rhyme
              by Judy Sierra
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Craft: Skeleton Picture
Children glued cut out bones and a skull to paper with an simple line-drawing skeleton.

Literacy Extensions:
- Talk about why people have / need bones.  Check out a nonfiction, informational book about skeletons and look at the pictures of the different bones in the body.
- Pick a simple recipe and make it with your child - discussing the various steps as you do them (i.e. Thelonius Monster's Sky-High Fly Pie)

Notes:
This story time is not for children with fears of monsters.  While the children found Skeleton Hiccups funny, several of the children were scared by The Skeleton in the Closet and Bedtime for Monsters.  I suggest reading the books yourself before sharing with your children.