Be INSTRUMENTAL in encouraging an INCREDIBLE IMAGINATION!

Hello, Storytime Friends!

Join us as we IMMERSE ourselves in ICICLES, musical INSTRUMENTS, and other child-friendly ISSUES – like INSECTS! See you INSIDE, where the hive is always INVITING.

Buzzingly yours,

The Bee Cave BEE

LITERACY LINK – I is for INFORMATION

INITIATE the New Year by getting INVOLVED with your child. Lots of child-rearing skills are INTUITIVE, of course, but you can also INVESTIGATE these great parenting books right here at BCPL!

14 Hours ‘Til Bedtime by Jen Singer

The Art of Parenting Twins by Patricia Maxwell Malmstrom

Childhood Unbound by Ron Taffel

Even June Cleaver Would Forget the Juice Box by Ann Dunnewold

Sleep is for the Weak edited by Rita Arens

Hope you have a LETTER-PERFECT Holiday Season!

A, B, C, D, E, F, G…

Here we are at “H”, you see.

No storytime the day before Christmas Eve;

The year’s almost done, can you believe?

But storytime’s back on December 30,

When the letter will be “I”, so tall and “perty”.

And if, this holiday, your home is buzzin’,

Take some quiet time, and READ with your cousin (or aunt, neighbor, or cat!)

Buzzingly yours,

The Bee Cave BEE

HOME for the HOLIDAYS with a HANDFUL of “H” books!

HANUKKAH by Roni Schotter

Shall I Knit You a HAT? A Christmas Yarn by Kate Klise

A Christmas Like HELEN’S by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

HOW the HIBERNATORS Came to Bethlehem by Norma Farber

O HOLY Night; Christmas with the Boys Choir of HARLEM, pictures by Faith Ringgold

HO! HO! HO!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS to all of you from Ms. Laurie and me! We HOPE you HAPPEN to HAVE some time to celebrate “5 Years and 5 Stars” with us on Thursday, December 9. HOP on by; the library will be HUMMING with some HEARTY HOSPITALITY!

See you at storytime, too –

Buzzingly yours,

The Bee Cave BEE



LITERACY LINK – H is for HOME for the HOLIDAYS

As you HIBERNATE this season with some HOT cocoa and HEALTHY, HOMEMADE soup, make reading a part of your HOLIDAY HABITS. Fill a basket with favorite stories and read a different one each night. Or choose a longer book, and read one chapter each evening. Many holiday classics have been made into movies; read the printed version and then view the movie adaptation. HOST a neighborhood book/cookie exchange or HAVE each family member submit a favorite title HE/sHE is HOPING to receive, and draw straws!

HELP yourself to HEAPS of HOLIDAY HAPPINESS: Read!