Building Block Award Nominees: Week 4 -- 9/30/25

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.

Simon and the Better Bone by Corey R. Tabor
Bear's Lost Glasses by Leo Timmers
Just One Flake by Travis Jonker

Books:
Bear's Lost Glasses by Leo Timmers
Dig Dig Dinosaur by Professor Anjali Goswami
I Live in a Tree Trunk by Meg Fleming
Just One Flake by Travis Jonker
Mr. Fox's Game of No by David LaRochelle
Peg Gets Crackin' Jo RenfroPloof by Ben Clanton
The Quiet Forest by Charlotte Offsay
Simon and the Better Bone by Corey Tabor
Towed by Toad by Jashar Awan

Craft: Snowflake
- Print template onto cardstock or heavy paper
- Cut out pieces (snowflake arms)
- Glue arms together in center to make snowflake shape
- Decorate snowflake by coloring or gluing on sparkles




Extension Activities:
- Click HERE to vote for your choice for the Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award.  (Voting will be open through December 31, 2025.)
- Set up a bone scavenger hunt for your child(ren).  Print and cut out bone shapes and then hide them around your house for your child(ren) to find.


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Virtual Story Time: Snow! -- 1/12/21

Join us weekly for an online story time featuring a book read by Miss Amy on Tuesdays at 10:00 am.  The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.

Click HERE to view the latest video. 

Hello, Snow! by Hope Vestergaard
Winter Woes by Marty Kelley



Books: (Snow)
Best in Snow by April Pulley Sayre
First Snow by Peter McCarty
Grandmother Winter by Phyllis Root
It's Snowing! by Gail Gibbons
Snow by Cynthia Rylant
Snow by Uri Shulevitz
The Snow Globe Family by Jane O'Connor
Snow Music by Lynne Rae Perkins
Snow Scene by Richard Jackson
White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt

Craft: Snowflake
- Print out a snowflake onto heavy paper
- Optional: Cut snowflake out by cutting a circle around the snowflake

- Color snowflake

- Glue on sequins to decorate

Extension Activities:

- Discuss with your child what should be worn in the snow.  Ask them to find all the clothes items they would wear outside in the snow.

- Make paper snowflakes.  Simple patterns can be found online or simply make your own by cutting shapes out of folded paper.