Featuring our four-legged, no-legged, winged, scaled, and feathered friends, this new series of story program lesson plans from bestselling author Reid will help librarians and teachers unleash kids' curiosity and learning. Using a combination of high-quality picture books, fingerplays, movement activities, songs, and games, these ready-to-use, mix-and-match lesson plans focus on universal themes such as family, friendship, and school but with animal protagonists. Useful for both school and public libraries, for teaching as well as collection development, Reid's book

Includes two dozen complete 30-minute story programs for preschoolers that can also be adapted for K 2 children
Offers 70 new ""in-between"" activities such as fingerplays and movement activities, songs and musical activities, chants, creative dramatics, imagination exercises, and more
Provides alternate book lists at the end of each story plan so readers can further customize their own storytimes
Gives tips on how to energize presentations and encourage audience participation

Using Reid's sure-fire story programs, kids and grownups alike will have a howling, barking, clucking, roaring good time.