Category Children’s Story Hour

The Little Rabbit Nicola Killen Ages 4-8 Ollie and her favorite friend bunny have been waiting for the rain to stop and spring to come, and at long last the sun arrives. Ollie puts on her rain boots, wraps bunny…

The Lion Who Wanted to Love Giles Andreae  Ages 3-5 Leo isn”t like other lion cubs. Instead of chasing zebras and antelopes, he wants to make friends with them. But can a lion who”s so different ever fit in with…

The Library Dragon Carmen Agra Deedy Ages 6-9 Sunrise Elementary School had a BIG problem. Their new librarian was a real Dragon! When Miss Lotta Scales read an ad for a thick-skinned librarian with a burning love of books, she…

The Kissing Hand Audrey Penn Ages 2-5 School is starting in the forest, but Chester Raccoon does not want to go. To help ease Chester’s fears, Mrs. Raccoon shares a family secret called the Kissing Hand to give him the…

The Invisible String Patrice Karst Ages 3-7 In this relatable and reassuring contemporary classic, a mother tells her two children that they’re all connected by an invisible string. “That’s impossible!” the children insist, but still they want to know more:…

The Incredible Book Eating Boy Oliver Jeffers Ages 3-7 Like many children, Henry loves books. But Henry doesn’t like to read books, he likes to eat them. Big books, picture books, reference books . . . if it has pages,…

The Hungry Thing Goes to a Restaurant Jan Slepian & Ann Seidler Ages 6-8 The Hungry Thing takes twins Buster and Sue to a restaurant, where the two children interpret the Hungry Thing’s requests for “bapple moose” and “spoonadish” to…

The Hungry Duckling Claude Clement Ages 5-6 Quack the duck is accidentally hatched by a chicken, but he does not find true happiness until Mother Duck shows him how to swim and eat like other ducks.

The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson Ages 2-4 When Mouse takes a stroll through the woods, he meets a fox, an owl, and a snake who all want to eat him! So Mouse invents a gruffalo, a monster with “terrible tusks and…

The Grouchy Ladybug Eric Carle Ages 2-4 As children follow the Grouchy Ladybug on her journey, they will learn the important concepts of time, size, and shape, as well as the benefits of friendship and good manners. Readers will love…