International Day of Peace, Sunday, September 21, 2025

 

I gathered these wonderful titles for story time on Monday, September 22, 2025, the day after the International Day of Peace, Sunday, September 21, 2025.

Five Minutes' Peace by Jill Murphy

Classic! Adults enjoy this one because it is cute how the mother elephant cannot get 5 minutes alone in this book. 

Wild Peace written by Irene Latham; illustrated by Il Sung Na

A gorgeous book about gaining peace from being out in the woods. Front end papers show a drawing of the woods in outline. Back end papers are of the same picture only all colored in. It is a lovely way to sandwich these beautiful pages. 

Can You Say Peace? by Karen Katz

On each page, we see a painting of a child in a country and how they would say "peace" in their languge. Very helpful that pronunciation is right next to each word.

Peaceful Me by Sandra V. Feder & Rahele Jomepour Bell

A wonderful book about recognizing calming opportunities such as looking at clouds or reading.

This one I did not get to use and I feel would be better for school agers. 

So delightful!

 

For a grandparents story time, I channeled my inner Mike Myers (from SNL days when he did the character Linda Richman) to read this hilarious book about a Jewish grandmother who is absolutely OVER THE MOON about her grandbaby! Charming! Plus you learn some very cool Yiddish words. 

I highly recommend. 

In 1990, a similar classic book about boundless love for babies won a Caldecott honor. More More More Said the Baby by Vera B. Williams would make a perfect pairing with SWEET BABE!

A fun book that does word play with the prefix li-

This was a delightful book to read for "COLOR OUR WORLD". As the story progresses the "li" for green light becomes other things. My top three are "livestock", "library books" and "lightning bugs". I also shared with patrons how to play this running game in the sideyard of the library. 

 

Two books which celebrate our wonderful world, COLOR OUR WORLD!

 

The next time I enjoy a cup of tea I will think of where it may have come from--what village? What family? It is a beautiful story about working together and being proud of the work. It is about the working conditions and what nature is like where tea is grown. Beautiful illustrations accompany the words.

I am so impressed by this gorgeous book. Rose loves drawing flowers and her drawing becomes a blueprint for making a rug. Her Baba joon is delighted to show her how he weaves rugs and how he ties strings and how he dyes yarn. Baba joon falls ill and Rose takes the time to continue working on the rug. She is able to take the rug to his sick bed and they resume working on it together. Lovely multigenerational story and relationship!

This perfect charmer hits all the notes!

Today was PACE and we were celebrating rainbows. We are still enjoying the summer reading theme, COLOR OUR WORLD! This book was perfect with the bear eating 7 different colors of berries after a long winter hibernating. The illustrations popped in this book!

 

A fun fractured fairy tale with a Peruvian flavor!

 

This fractured fairy tale is just wonderful. Instead of pigs we have three guinea pigs and the Andean fox takes the place of the "big, bad wolf". It turns out that the fox is so forceful with the pigs for a very good cause. Leftover materials are used at the end of the book for a playground and stage for all. I just adored all the new (positive) twists in this version. And this sentence: "All three guinea pigs popcorned in pure delight." This gave me the opportunity to teach about the word popcorned! So cool. A special word for movements of guinea pigs!

A new book about Harry!

A new story about Harry (the dirty dog). A perfect book to share this character and pique interest in the original books! Harry is jealous of the guinea pig that is being looked after at his house (for a short time). Harry gets himself into a jam when the guinea pig escapes the cage at show and tell at school. Harry comes to the rescue and everything ends well including the guinea pig going back home!  Adorable!