I had a blast this weekend at not only the Storybook Breakfast (pics to follow tomorrow on here – or already posted on my FB page!) where I was able to shake the hands of Curious George, Stelleluna, Paddington Bear, and Carol from Where the Wild Things Are.  Then, on Sunday I took my daughter to Maple Sunday at the Science Center in Norwell, and after we went sledding.  My daughter is enjoying the outdoors more and more!  Dream come true!

Since the first week of Preschool Building Stories in Kingston had a snafu – we are starting the first week round again this week!  So, come on out and enjoy yourself as we explore telling stories in a new and fun way!  Pembroke Library had a great turnout and we enter the second week there.  Let’s keep our fingers crossed for great weather!

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Tuesday: Lil’ Munchkins Day Care and Preschool @ 10:00/10:30am
• Tuesday: Eldredge Library @ 4:00pm
• Tuesday: Jonathan Bourne Library @ 6:30pm
• Wednesday: Barret Russell School @ 9:15/10:00am
• Wednesday: First Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Kingston Library at 2:00pm – This week: Using Voices and Sound Effects!
• Wednesday: Second Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Pembroke Library at 4:00pm – This week: Puppets!
• Thursday: Stepping Stones Preschool @ 10:00am
• Friday: Leddy Preschool @ 6:30pm
• Saturday: Early Childhood Fair at the Kingston Elementary School @ 11:00am
• Saturday: Attleboro Arts Museum @ 2:00pm

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Scituate
2. Chatham
3. Bourne
4. Brockton
5. Kingston
6. Pembroke
7. Hanover
8. Taunton
9. Kingston (again!)
10. Attleboro

March?  It doesn’t look like March!  We need a lot of sunny days in order to clean things up for the first day of Spring in just a few weeks!  Besides that, I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.  My visit to Sherborn was a huge success and the crowd there was fantastic!  I will be doing a bit of traveling once again this week – this time to Winchester on Tuesday.  I really enjoy going to the Winchester Library as I have noticed a couple of return audience members.  I love it when I start to see familiar faces!

We are starting up the newest round of Preschool Building Stories at both the Kingston and Pembroke Libraries!  Hingham was a huge and fantastic success with many families joining us each week – hopefully we’ll end with even more people joining the fun in Kingston and Pembroke.  Let’s cross our fingers for great weather!

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Tuesday: Winchester Library @ 3:30pm
• Wednesday: First Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Kingston Library at 2:00pm – This week: Using Voices and Sound Effects!
• Wednesday: First Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Pembroke Library at 4:00pm – This week: Using Voices and Sound Effects!
• Friday: Montclair Elementarty School @ 9:00am
• Friday: L.B. Merrill School @ 7:15pm
• Saturday: Storybook Breakfast at Plymouth South High School @ 10:00am

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Winchester
2. Kingston
3. Pembroke
4. Quincy
5. Raynham
6. Plymouth

I get to entertain at my daughter’s school this week – one of the major perks of being a storyteller is that you can visit your child’s school and make the kids laugh – and then, by default, you’ve made your kid even cooler than she already is!  I am also heading to Sherborn this week.  While this is quite the ride, I really don’t mind the traveling, as long as it’s not in the deep snow!

We are wrapping up the latest round of Preschool Building Stories at the Hingham Library!  We had quite the turnout for vacation week – which was awesome – and hopefully we’ll end with even more people joining the fun.  Hopefully we will have only really nice days this week – so join us for the fantastic finale!

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Wednesday: Carver Elementary School – Kindergarten @ 9:30am
• Wednesday: Final Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Hingham Library at 3:30pm – This week: Wordless Picture Books!
• Wednesday: Teacher Training at 6:30pm for CNK: The Perfect Circle
• Thursday: Sherborn Library @ 3:30pm
• Friday: West End Day Nursery @9:30/10:00am

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Carver
2. Hingham
3. Pembroke
4. Sherborn
5. New Bedford

I know this snow is really messing with people’s schedules – I know it’s made my schedule a constant headache.  No worries though, if we have an event booked and you are open I will make it!  If you need to reschedule, I can do that too!  I am as flexible as possible and really try to work everyone in – so don’t worry about a thing!

That said, the latest round of Preschool Building Stories began last week at the Hingham Library and we had a great turnout!  We have room for a few more so if you’d like to join us this week – please don’t hesitate!  Also, Wednesday is supposed to be one of the only really nice days this week – so come out while you can!

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Wednesday: Early Bird Academy at 10:00am
• Wednesday: Second Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Hingham Library at 3:30pm – This week: Playing with Puppets!
• Wednesday: Teacher Training at 6:30pm for CNK: The Perfect Circle
• Thursday: Lil’ Munchkins Preschool and Day Care at 10:00/10:30am
• Friday: Camp West Wood at 11:00am
• Friday: Triumph Head Start at 2:00pm
• Saturday: HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Pembroke
2. Hingham
3. Scituate
4. Stoughton
5. Taunton

I hope everyone is enjoying the snow – there’s plenty of it to go around!  My daughter really isn’t the outside kid that I was so she spent most of these snow days either snuggled in her covers and watching Disney movies or playing with her dollhouse.  She did pretend to make her dolls go outside to play… so that is something!

The latest round of Preschool Building Stories are beginning this week at the Hingham Library.  Also, the week we missed in Carver is rescheduled for today at 5:00 – so come and join us for the final week where we will discuss wordless picture books and how to use them!  Here is this week’s schedule:

• Wednesday: Hedge School at 10:30/11:15
• Wednesday: First Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Hingham Library at 3:30pm – This week: Using Voices and Sound Effects!
• Wednesday: Final Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Carver Library at 5:00pm – This week: Wordless Picture Books!
• Friday: Growth Unlimited at 9:30am
• Saturday: Paul Pratt Memorial Library at 3:00pm

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Plymouth
2. Hingham
3. Carver
4. Kingston
5. Cohasset

2015 has been a mild winter but it looks as though we may be making up for it this week!  I am booked the entire week – so of course the snow would wait till now to make an appearance!  I don’t mind though – if I have something with me this week and have to reschedule just let me know as soon as you can and we will work something out!

The latest rounds of Preschool Building Stories are ending this week in the Carver and Plympton Libraries.  If you haven’t had a chance to join us yet - come this be the week!  It will be loads of fun discussing wordless picture books!  Onto this week’s schedule:

• Monday: Steeple School at 9:15 & 10:15am
• Monday: Teacher Training at the Ridgehill School at 6:00pm
• Tuesday: Steeple School at 9:15/10:15am & 1:00pm
• Wednesday: Growth Unlimited at 9:00am
• Wednesday: Final Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Carver Library at 4:30pm – This week: Wordless Picture Books!
• Thursday: Final Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Plympton Library at 4:00pm – This week: Wordless Picture Books!

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Marshfield
2. Norwell
3. Kingston
4. Carver
5. Plympton

 

Another week into 2015 and I have been feilding many calls for new winter shows – but also a ton of spring and even summer shows already!  I look forward to a new year of tales – but I also recieved one of the best emails!  It came from the Children’s Librarian at the Kingston Library who had a very special request:

“I am thinking forward to the summer (oh boy), and this year the theme is “Every Hero Has a Story” and I was wondering if you would like to do a one-session story telling (or writing) program around the HULK?

Thanks,

Stephanie

Stephanie Legg
Kingston Public Library”

As most of you know, if you come to this site, I have been busy performing the Preschool Building Stories in many of the surrounding libraries.  Building Stories, though, started as a writing workshop for elementary school children from the first to fifth grade.  I love the writing workshop as I get to see children’s eyes get excited when given an assignment of creative writing.  They have the opportunity to create something straight from thier mind.  Now, with this challenge, I get to base the ideas around my favorite comic character of all time!  I will be discussing this with the Kingston Library a bit and secure a date for this super great idea!  Details to follow!

Also, speaking of the Building Stories, we are entering our third week of the workshops at the Carver and Plympton Library – so if you haven’t had a chance to come to one – let this be the week!  Here is this week’s schedule:

• Wednesday: Bright Horizons at 10:00 & 10:30
• Wednesday: Week 3 of Preschool Building Stories at the Carver Library at 4:30pm – This week: Making Puppets!
• Thursday: Week 3 of Preschool Bilding Stories at the Plympton Library at 4:00pm – This week: Making Puppets!
• Friday: ECDC Nursery School at 6:30pm
• Saturday: Arnone School at 11:00am

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Bedford, NH
2. Carver
3. Plympton
4. Sherborn
5. Brockton

I have a slow start to the week but I make up for it at the end.  As we roll into 2015 my voice-mail and email starts to fill up – which is always exciting!  I have a harder time keeping up sometimes but I am working on it.  Right now my February looks like it will be full of fun places to visit.  Keeping within this week though, the Preschool Building Stories chug along and then visiting Head Start to finish the week off.  Look at the schedule below:

• Wednesday: Week 2 of Building Stories at the Carver Library – this week: PUPPETS!
• Thursday: Week 2 of Building Stories at the Plympton Library – this week: PUPPETS!
• Friday: Hull Family Network show at 10:00am
• Friday: Triumph Head Start show at 2:00pm

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Carver
2. Plympton
3. Hull
4. Taunton

 

Sometimes when you do something over and over it almost becomes a second nature and you do it without thinking.  As I was rushing through the holiday seasons I had a whole slew of Preschool Building Stories.  As much as I love doing them it was nice to have a small break from them so that the batteries can recharge!  Well, now they are full power and I am ready to go!  I am starting the Preschool Building Stories at the Carver and Plympton Library this week – both are afternoon (after school) opportunities to come and find new ways to enjoy telling stories at home!  More information is available on the Upcoming Shows page.

• Wednesday: Carver Library @4:30pm – Preschool Building Stories (Week 1)
• Thursday: Plympton Library @4:00pm – Preschool Building Stories (Week 2)
• Friday: Lil’ Munchkins Day Care and Preschool

This is the first week of the Preschool Building Stories – but if you can’t make it, don’t worry, you can come to the second session (Week 2) and pick right up with what we’re doing!  Each week is a different subject and hilarious to boot!  First week we talk about how to do voices and sound effects into your story-times!

Places I am visiting this week:

1. Carver
2. Plympton
3. Scituate

 

With the New Year around the corner I have to update the Upcoming Shows Page – I usually procrastinate setting things up for the new year because I like to look back on the year I’ve had instead of all the things I have coming up.  I do love working and all – but the end of the year I like thinking back to all the new places I’ve seen and the great people I met.  I don’t have any shows this week as I usually try to take this week to get my new brochures ready – speaking of which – here is a sneak peek of them:

I am mailing them out this week and also spending vacation time with my daughter.  All in all – great week!  Next week I have new Building Stories sessions starting up.  I will put the dates below – so mark your calendars!

Building Stories starting up next week:

• CARVER LIBRARY @ 4:30pm – Jan 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th
• PLYMPTON LIBRARY @ 4:00pm – Jan 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th

Remember, you don’t have to come to every session – but you should!  Each week we explore a different way to tell stories that you can use at home and make storytime fun for everyone!