Books in Motion: Connecting Preschoolers with Books Through Art, Games, Movement, Music, Playacting, and Props

If you've been looking for a way to add activities to your storytimes, look no further. Divided into six sections; art, games, movement, music, playacting, and props, this title provides detailed instructions on how to use children's books and activites to engage preschool-aged children through movement. The author includes 500 books with strong movement tie-ins, and all have been published in the year 2000 or later. Many of these activities would be useful in storytimes for children with special needs. Whether you have a specific special needs program, or are including children with special needs in your regular storytimes, you will find these activities useful to those children who need more movement. In fact, these activities provide a good way of helping all preschool children succeed at your storytime programs. Activities range from creating art like the characters in the story to encouraging young children to pretend along with the characters in the book. Back matter includes art patterns, an author, title, and subject index. An excellent resource for public and school libraries.—Renee McGrath, Nassau Library System, Uniondale, NY