School Library Journal Review
| If you've been looking for a way to add activities to your storytimes, look no further. Divided into six sections; art, games, movement, music, playacting, and props, this title provides detailed instructions on how to use children's books and activites to engage preschool-aged children through movement. The author includes 500 books with strong movement tie-ins, and all have been published in the year 2000 or later. Many of these activities would be useful in storytimes for children with special needs. Whether you have a specific special needs program, or are including children with special needs in your regular storytimes, you will find these activities useful to those children who need more movement. In fact, these activities provide a good way of helping all preschool children succeed at your storytime programs. Activities range from creating art like the characters in the story to encouraging young children to pretend along with the characters in the book. Back matter includes art patterns, an author, title, and subject index. An excellent resource for public and school libraries.-Renee McGrath, Nassau Library System, Uniondale, NY (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. |
Booklist Review
| Dietzel-Glair's book offers simple ideas on ways that children's librarians and early childhood educators can incorporate art, games, movement, music, playacting, and props into their storytimes. Each section begins with an introductory paragraph, followed by a bulleted list of tips pertaining to the topic. The rest of each chapter is devoted to specific book titles and their suggested activity. Each title listing includes the author and/or illustrator, publisher and publication date, and a one-sentence summary. (The author chose to include only books published since 2000.) Each book entry concludes with a suggested action to go along with the reading, but many seem overly simple. For example, most of the activities in the art chapter are about handing out a coloring page and crayons as you read the story; and in the music section, many of the suggestions essentially call for handing out shakers for the children to shake on the refrain of the story. Concluding with a list of other storytime resources, art outlines, and author, title, and subject indexes, this book would be especially useful to those new to presenting storytimes.--Ostergard, Maren Copyright 2010 Booklist |
