Storytime at Richland Library
Library Storytime is a developmentally important and meaningful experience for children. When you bring your child to storytime, you introduce him to the Library, the best picture books, and what may be his first group experience with children his own age. By attending weekly, you make storytime part of his routine, and teach him that the library is not only where you go to get more free books, but where you go to have lots of entertaining fun. This fun time is also enriching.
Storytime helps your child prepare for school. By sharing books that stretch his attention span, we introduce him to a rich vocabulary, and prepare him to look with his eyes and listen with his ears, to pay attention to a leader, which is a kindergarten readiness skill. His phonological awareness grows (words are made up of small sounds), as he listens to stories and learns rhymes and songs. His large motor skills get a workout, too, with stretching rhymes and movement. Best of all, your child will experience the best picture books, old and new, books that are part of his literary heritage.
We believe that if he sees the best books, he will know what the best is, in art, poetry, literature, and language. At the end of storytime, we always bring out a wealth of age appropriate books for you and your child to peruse and take home. We stay in the storytime area to help you select books to take home and share. We know you will see some old favorites (Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, to name just one), and we’ll be there to find more books on trains, trucks, princesses or dinosaurs. Tell us what your child loves, and we have the books!
Get a library card for your child. Take home up to 60 books per card. Make storytime part of your child’s life. His life will be richer for it.
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