We’ll be travelling the world during Story Hour this year! Each week, children will visit a different country through stories and crafts with Miss Kristina! Story Hour is held on the first and third Wednesdays of the month, starting at 10:15 am.
Here’s our travel itinerary for the year, along with reading lists from previous weeks if you’d like to place holds on them and read along at home!
Week Seven: Brazil
- Bisa’s Carnaval by Joana Pastro
- There’s a lion in the forest! by Mônica Carnesi
- For the love of soccer! by Pelé
- The sock thief by Ana Crespo
- The life of Pelé by Patty Rodríguez
- So say the little monkeys by Nancy Van Laan
- The spark in you by Andrea Pippins
- Welcome to Brazil with Sesame Street by Christy Peterson
- The best tailor in Pinbauê by Eymard Toledo
- The quest for Z : the true story of explorer Percy Fawcett and a lost city in the Amazon by Greg Pizzoli
- Along the Tapajós by Fernando Vilela
- The dancing turtle : a folktale from Brazil by Pleasant DeSpain
- The yellow cab by Marcus Pfister
- Brazil by Chloe Perkins
- A is for anaconda : a rainforest alphabet by Anthony D. Fredericks
- From my window by Otávio Júnior
Week Six: Australia
- Wombat said come in by Carmen Agra Deedy
- Don’t call me bear! by Aaron Blabey
- Birrarung Wilam by Joy Murphy Wandin
- Easy breakfasts from around the world by Sheila Griffin Llanas
- Slow adventures by Carl Honoré
- Down under by Tessa Paul
- A platypus’ world by Caroline Arnold
- Do you really want to meet a platypus? by Cari Meister
- Australia : treasure quest by Steven Wolfe Pereira
- Platypus! by Ginjer L. Clarke
- Waking up down under by Carol J. Votaw
- One night in the Coral Sea by Sneed B. Collard
- Are we there yet? by Alison Lester
- Swim, little wombat, swim! by Charles Fuge
- Over in Australia : amazing animals Down Under by Marianne Collins Berkes
- Wombat, the reluctant hero by Christian Trimmer
Week Five: Kenya
- Papa, Do You Love Me? by Barbara Joosse
- Masai and I by Virginia Kroll
- 14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy
- Chirchir is Singing by Kelly Cunnane
- Count Your Way through Kenya by James Haskins
- Mama Panya’s Pancakes by Mary Chamberlin
- For You are a Kenyan Child by Kelly Cunnane
Week Four: Thailand
- Mela and the Elephant by Dow Phumiruk
- The Umbrella Queen by Shirin Yim Bridges
- The Floating Field: how a group of Thai boys built their own soccer field by Scott Riley
- The girl who wore too much : a folktale from Thailand by Margaret Read MacDonald
- Hello, Bumblebee Bat by Darrin Lunde
- Hush! : a Thai lullaby by Minfong Ho
- An Elephant in the Backyard by Richard Sobol
- From the tops of the trees by Kao Kalia Yang
- The whispering cloth : a refugee’s story by Pegi Deitz Shea
Week Three: Russia
- The Black Geese: a Baba Yaga story from Russia by Alison Lurie
- On the Edge of the World by Anna Desnitskaya
Week Two: Chile
- Lucia’s Travel Bus by Nam-joong Kim
- On the Edge of the World by Anna Desnitskaya
Week One: Introduction
- A Day in the Sun by Diana Ejaita
- Only for a Little While by Gabriella Orozco Belt
- My Librarian is a Camel by Margriet Ruurs
- Families Around the World by Margriet Ruurs
- B My Name is Boy by Dawn Masi
- Maps by Aleksandra Mizielińska