One Mitten

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One Mitten by Kristine O’Connell George, illustrated by Maggie Smith is a great book for toddler story times. It tells the audience all sorts of ideas that a little girl comes up with to do with her one yellow mitten. Then she finds the mate to the mitten and we get another list of ideas of what you can do with two mittens. The text is short and fun, a perfect match with the colorful illustrations.
Share this with your toddler storytime for a winter theme. Best of all would be to have kids either bring their own mittens or supply the kids with mis-matched mittens to help act out the story. Even without the mittens, kids can pretend to have a mitten on and do the gestures along with the characters. A fun time indeed!

New Teen Books

DesMoinesRegister has an article that lists new books for teens. I enjoy the fact that they have included books that will actually interest teens, ones with lots of that racy appeal we have been hearing so much about in the news.