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!

I am pretty sure that this week will be plenty busy – even without many shows.  I am still entertaining at a school on Tuesday – but after that it’s vacation time!  My daughter will be home with me for two weeks straight.  I’m sure my wife is cringing at the thought of all the trouble the two of us can get in!  Of course, Thursday is Christmas, if you celebrate it or not I hope you have a wonderful day.  I know that I still get excited to see what’s under the tree for me that morning from the ones I love!

• Tuesday – Blue River Montessori School

That’s all for this week folks!  A new round of Preschool Building Stories is set to begin in January and I hope all that can come will attend!  It should be a blast!

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Duxbury

I am going to Bridgewater Schools late in the week – very excited about that – some of my favorite people are there.  It’s always good to see friends you rarely get to visit, especially around the holidays!  Speaking of which, I hope everyone is having a stress-free holiday season.  One of my favorite things about celebrating Christmas is coming home every-night to a lit up Christmas Tree.  There’s hardly anything as calming as a Christmas Tree lighting your living room.  Anyways, on to the schedule!

• Monday – Bright Horizons
• Thursday – George Mitchell Elementary School
• Friday – George Mitchell Elementary School
• Saturday – Plymouth Police Department Christmas Party

Another week of no public shows – but they are coming in January!  So keep checking back for dates!  Also, if you’d like for me to visit your school or library let the powers that be know!  That’s the best way to have me visit your neck of the woods!

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Bedford, NH
2. Bridgewater, MA
3. Bridgewater, MA
4. Plymouth, MA

 

I am super excited about an opportunity that has presented itself this week – something that I really can’t discuss at the moment – and mainly because there isn’t very much to talk about right now anyways, but just know it’s a very amazing opportuinty that I hope works out in the end.  Also, heading into a very busy Decemeber week I was already rushing between shows today (Sunday) where I started out in Rockland and then to Newton.  I have to come to really enjoy commutes between shows – seeing all of the different towns and being able to travel all over Massacusetts.  Still hate traffic though… I don’t think I will ever get used sitting in traffic.  My schedule is as follows below:

• Sunday – Christmas Party at the VFW in Rockland
• Sunday – Christmas Party in Newton
• Tuesday – Christmas Tales at LPC
• Wednesday – Lil’ Munchkins Preschool
• Friday – Triumph Head Start

This week there are no public shows but no worries – I have plenty of things on the horizon for everyone looking to see me!  Also, if you’re curious on how to get me to come to your neck of the woods – the best thing to do is suggest to your local library or your child’s school and tell them that they should invite me to come tell my tales there!  Nothing speaks louder than words!  Let them know you’d like to have me visit your town!

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Rockland
2. Newton
3. New Bedford
4. Scituate
5. Taunton

I have a nice, slow week this week.  While I love working and telling my tales sometimes I enjoy a slow week to get other things done.  I am working on getting the new 2015 brochures out and getting my final Christmas shopping done.  So, this is a welcome break.  I still have a few shows though – so check out the schedule below:

• Thursday: Provincetown Elementary School
• Friday: Week 4 (Final) of Building Stories at the John Curtis Library in Hanover (Open to the Public)
• Saturday: Carver Elementary School Winter Wonderland – shows at 10:30 and 12:00

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 visting this week:

1. Provincetown
2. Hanover
3. Carver

This week I will be filling myself up with cranberry-sauce – because it is delicious! That and plenty of dark meat from my Mother-in-Law’s amazingly tasty turkey.  I do love me some grand Thanksgiving meals!  I hope everyone out there is spending time with your favorite loved ones and eating until you explode with happiness over being able to have times like this!  Other than that I do have a few shows this week, including the finale of the Preschool Building Stories in Halifax on Black Friday.  Instead of feeding the consumerism machine come and spend time with your family at the Holmes Library finding some new ways to have fun reading together!  I promise you it is a grand, fun time!  Anyways, the schedule for my week is below:

• Wednesday: Bright Horizons
• Thursday: THANKSGIVING!
• Friday: Week 4 (Final) of Building Stories at the Holmes Public Library in Halifax (Open to the Public)
• Saturday: Eastward Ho! Country Club Cookie Party

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! We will NOT be meeting at the John Curtis Library to finish the Preschool Building Stories Workshop this week but instead we will meet next week on Dec.5th.  Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Foxboro, MA
2. Halifax, MA
3. Chatham, MA

 

We are deep into November now and I am just plugging along with shows featuring Thanksgiving Tales!  My original tale of Melissa’s Turkey is a hit, as usual, and makes me smile to see all the reactions it gets.  The rundown for the week is below, make sure to mark your calendar if you see something you’d like to attend!

• Monday: Clarke Elementary
• Tuesday: Bright Horizons
• Wednesday: WEEK 4 of Preschool Building Stories at the Paul Pratt Memorial Library in Cohasset! (Open to the Public)
• Thursday: Head Start and Child Care
• Friday: WEEK 3 of Preschool Building Stories at both the Holmes Library in Halifax and John Curtis Library in Hanover! (Open to the Public)

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. Swapscott, MA
2. Bedford, NH
3. Cohasset, MA
4. Taunton, MA
5. Halifax , MA
6. Hanover, MA