{"id":464,"date":"2008-05-28T13:02:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T20:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2008-08-01T08:39:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T15:39:32","slug":"a-is-for-alligator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/a-is-for-alligator\/","title":{"rendered":"A is for Alligator"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a>Animal-themed storytimes are plentiful. Tons of picture books, tons of fingerplays, and tons of ideas for crafts\/activities. If you’re looking for something more exotic than dogs and cats, an alligator storytime might be in store.<\/p>\n

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What would you do if an alligator slipped inside your house, with only your siblings to share in your terror? You’d be plenty scared, wouldn’t you? That’s exactly the situation in which three young siblings find themselves when an alligator invades the homefront. Eventually, the kids get tired of all the scary alligator stuff.\u00a0 Snip, Snap! What’s That?<\/em>\u00a0is one of the first stories I read to my toddlers when they can handle slightly longer storylines; it’s an excellent balance of suspense and humor.<\/p>\n

If you give a kid a saxophone, you should expect noise. Lots of noise. Unfortunately, Miles’s parents can’t take the noise any longer and banish him outside, which doesn’t endear them to the neighbors.\u00a0\u00a0Miles and his Swamp Band find an encouraging audience in the swamp, including an alligator who has dinner plans\u00a0with the band.\u00a0 Boisterous scenes will make\u00a0Mama Don’t Allow<\/em>\u00a0a highlight of your storytime. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Imagine you’re a frog. You’re doing what any normal frog would do: relaxing on a log and gorging yourself on a generous array of bugs and insects. Naturally, you get a little fatter. Not so naturally, the log on which you are resting moves.<\/p>\n

A Frog in the Bog<\/em>is one of the longer “counting” books that I read to my toddlers.\u00a0 Don’t let the length of the book dissuade you from\u00a0including it in a storytime;\u00a0the many opportunities to create a spirited reading (editorial comments on the frog’s diet) and the refrain of “And the frog grows a little bit bigger” combined with the wild ending make this a fun choice for toddlers and preschoolers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Any awesome alligator tales you’d like to share?<\/p>\n

Books Mentioned:<\/p>\n

Bergman, Mara.\u00a0 Snip, Snap! What’s That?<\/em>New York: Greenwillow Books, 2005.<\/p>\n

Hurd, Thacher.\u00a0 Mama Don’t Allow<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Harper & Row, 1984.<\/p>\n

Wilson, Karma.\u00a0 A Frog in the Bog.\u00a0 New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Animal-themed storytimes are plentiful. Tons of picture books, tons of fingerplays, and tons of ideas for crafts\/activities. If you’re looking for something more exotic than dogs and cats, an alligator storytime might be in store. What would you do if an alligator slipped inside your house, with only your siblings to share in your terror? You’d be plenty scared, wouldn’t you? That’s exactly the situation in which three young siblings find themselves when an alligator invades the homefront. Eventually, the kids get tired of all the scary alligator stuff.\u00a0 Snip, Snap! What’s That?\u00a0is one of the first stories I read to my toddlers when they can handle slightly longer storylines; it’s an excellent balance of suspense and humor. If you give a kid a saxophone, you should expect noise. Lots of noise. Unfortunately, Miles’s parents can’t take the noise any longer and banish him outside, which doesn’t endear them to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[71,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-jennifer-schultz","category-childrens-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}