Misadventures of the Monster Librarian

This is my FAVORITE! If Dr. Seuss were still alive today he would have turned 110 years old on Sunday, and been able to see his works all over the world, all over the internet, and still loved by children EVERYWHERE! So, for our 2nd year in a row we decided to celebrate Dr. Seuss with a party complete with Seussically silly snacks, crafts, and lots of laughter. If you're looking for some craft or food ideas, these were a hit (also we try and cleverly keep both our food and crafts for parties relatively inexpensive, and these were both!): IF I RAN THE CIRCUS peanuts (aka circus peanuts) HOP on POPcorn (aka cheesy popcorn) IF I RAN THE ZOO animals (aka animal crackers) FISH in the POT crackers (aka goldfish crackers) BIPPOLO SEEDS (aka nerds( Craft 1: Die cut door knob hangers which we turned Seussically silly with messages and Seuss characters (didn't have much time to finish this sample, so beg your pardon for it's sloppiness) Ou...

I've been so insanely busy these past few weeks. The fast catch up: Our storytimes that I'm now co-leading with the Education students from Sticks College have been GREAT! As part of their responsibility the kids have to not only pick and read books with the same theme, but also have to plan an art project. Double awesome that I don't have to do that! :) Did I mention something about a mural one hundred years ago?  When I first started I got in touch with an art professor at Sticks College and asked if she and her students would like to donate their services to paint a mural for us. Because of the short notice, Professor Awesome couldn't fit it into their schedule, but offered to do the work PRO BONO over their spring break! That's this week!! And since my office is on the edge of the Children's Dept. I've gotten to watch the mural progress. The Professors Awesome (Professor Awesome's hubby is also an Art Prof) have been coming in before we open and ...

I wrote about our Dr. Seuss Birthday Party , so I thought I would post two pics of Monster Niece S and Monster Nephew A. Monster Nephew A coloring his "Cat in the Hat," with me. Monster Nephew will be 2 in May, and his mother refuses to cut his "cute baby curls" until then. My boy's got a MULLET ! I put his hair in a pig tail the other day...cute...he looked like a mini- Westley ! Here is a picture of Monster Niece S (the blondie in the middle), 3 1/2, also making her "Cat in the Hat." There was also a really cute picture of me reading Horton Hears a Who to the kiddies, but alas, the pic would have betrayed my anonymity...so for those of you know the real me check out my Facebook page. Pics soon to be posted on Myspace too.

Had our Dr. Seuss Birthday party this weekend. We had a really great turn out for our Dr. Seuss' Birthday party, which was held this past weekend. We had 56 people of all ages come out for an hour spent reading Dr. Seuss books, Dr. Seuss themed art projects: create the cat in the hat, decorate red fish and blue fish, and create Horton's egg, and we also sang "Happy Bitrthday Dr. Seuss," complete with a Cat in the Hat cake. My Mom and sister A1 brought Monster Niece S and Nephew A. It was totally adorable--when they walked in Monster Nephew A walked up to me while I was reading our first story, McElligot's Pool , and said, "Monster," (using my real name of course) and just grinned at me. Such a sweet child and talking so much these days. We also read Horton Hears a Who! since I know that people will be taking their kids to that blasted movie!! Is anyone else dissapointed to see that a book which takes all of ten minutes to read is being turned into a mov...