Storytime September 30th

One day, while great big lions lie basking in the sun, a little lion cub goes off to find some fun.

Roars the little lion cub.

"Who will play with me?

1 red monkey rushes up a tree.

Poor little lion cub! All he wants is someone to play with, but he is simply too noisy. As the little lion cubRoars his way across the grassland, young picture-book readers can count the African animals,identify them by color...and Roars along too.

This rollicking, Roaring poem, about a rambunctious little lion cub, is a collaboration of the talented author and illustrator team Pamela Duncan Edwards and Henry Cole.

Children's Pick of the Lists 2000 (ABA)

A CLASSIC IN THE MAKING FROM THE 2008 CALDECOTT HONOR WINNER

ONE BOY is a perfect example of why Kirkus Reviews calls Laura Vaccaro Seeger the “emerging master of the concept book”—a die-cut book exploring counting and words-withinwords, and the power of art and imagination. At the start, readers see a sad boy surrounded by empty, lonely chairs. At his feet is a bag with paint brushes peeking out. The text reads “ONE boy” which—with a turn of the page and a look through a cleverly cut hole—turns into “all alONE.” Page after page, the book becomes populated with seals, apes, and monkeys, all examples of words-within-words. Finally, we come back to “ONE boy” who is “all dONE,” and we discover where all the characters came from.

One Boy is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

The above images and discriptions have been taken from amazon.com

Literacy Extenders:

• Counting! As you read the first book, Roar! ask your child to count the animals on the page. Ask them what color the animals are and what type of noise they make?
• Make a connection! Ask your child how the two above books are like...see if they can make the correlation of numbers and counting with each title.
• Sing 5 little monekys but change the lyrics to 5 little lion cubs.
• Go further and talk about emotion! Ask your child why the animals did not want to play with the lion cub? Ask them how they should talk to their friends and if we yell at our friends what would happen. Would they want to play with someone who yelled and roared at them? 

Craft: Crocodiles

• For this craft you will need a large paper plate, scissors, glue, crayons, and the crocodile printable from below
• Cut out the crocodile, fold the paper plate in half, glue the face of the crocodile on the outside of the paper plate, glue the tongue on the inside of the folded paper plate. Color. Now your child will have a snapping crocodile puppet.