For 2026, our theme is “Reading is the Road to Success”, and we’ll be taking a road trip across the United States! Children will visit every state 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! Click on the triangles next to each week to see the reading lists.
Week 2: New Hampshire & Vermont
New Hampshire
- “What’s great about New Hampshire?” by Rebecca Rissman
- “The New Hampshire colony” by Kevin Cunningham
- “New Hampshire” by Colleen Sexton
- “New Hampshire” by Ann Heinrichs
- “A gathering of days : a New England girl’s journal, 1830-32 : a novel” by Joan W. Blos
- “Enemy in the fort” by Sarah Masters Buckey
- “Tuttle’s Red Barn : the story of America’s oldest family farm” by Richard Michelson
- “Sarah Whitcher’s story” by Elizabeth Yates
- “Granite Baby” by Lynne Bertrand
- “Yours Truly” by Heather Vogel Frederick
- “The bear that heard crying” by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
- “Papa is a poet : a story about Robert Frost” by Natalie Bober
Vermont
- “Vermont” by Colleen Sexton
- “Kate’s Vermont venture” by Janice Hanna
- “What’s great about Vermont?” by Darice Bailer
- “Kitty and Mr. Kipling : neighbors in Vermont” by Lenore Blegvad
- “Nearer nature” by Jim Arnosky
- “Here comes Darrell” by Leda Schubert
- “The story of the Green Mountain Boys” by Susan Clinton
- “A Christmas like Helen’s” by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
- “Vermont” by Ann Heinrichs
- “Bear goes sugaring” by Maxwell Eaton III
- “Sap to syrup” by Inez Snyder
Week 1: Maine & Massachusetts
Maine
- “First Bear Hunt” by Matt Chandler
- “Maine” by Ann Heinrichs
- “Maine mission : a big woods hunting story” by Jimmy Tidmore
- “Welcome to Maine” by Åsa Gilland
- “One morning in Maine” by Robert McCloskey
- What’s great about Maine? by Andrea Wang
- “Maine” by Rachel A. Koestler-Grack
- “Lenny the Lobster can’t stay for dinner” by Finn Buckley
- “Miss Rumphius” by Barbara Cooney
- “Sarah, Plain and Tall” by Patricia MacLachlan
- “Skylark” by Patricia MacLachlan
Massachusetts
- “Massachusetts” by Nathan Sommer
- “Massachusetts” by Ann Heinrichs
- “Celebrating Massachusetts” by Marion Dane Bauer
- “Midnight in Massachusetts” by Daniel Kenney
- “Zellie Blake, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834” by Kathleen Duey
- “What’s great about Massachusetts?” by Amanda Lanser
- “M is for Mayflower : a Massachusetts alphabet” by Margot Theis Raven
- “Pirateology : the sea journal of Captain William Lubber, pirate hunter general, Boston, Massachusetts” by Dugald Steer
- “I survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919” by Lauren Tarshis
- “My uncle Emily” by Jane Yolen
- “Make way for ducklings” by Robert McCloskey