Pre-K Library Storytime

        P l a y s Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh. I have an enormous snake puppet and ten little mice and a stone I quickly harvested from the library landscaping. Remembering all I had learned from magicians visiting this summer, I palmed the mice and pulled them out from behind folks' ears. Wonderful story! Update: Big crowd this year. I think next year I'll try doing this like a little play, and letting the kids in on setting up the scene.  Intro: hungry snake, first three snakes, other four snakes, other three snakes, and way over here, the rock.  Then get them in on the joke about, "Go over and get that rock, too!" B o o k s Mouse, Look Out!   by Judy Waite. The children loved joining in on the chorus, "MOUSE, LOOK OUT! THERE'S A CAT ABOUT." Choral reads are  always  fun. Whose Mouse Are You? by Robert Kraus. Great pictures, charming, simple story. Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young. This very simply told tale is relative hi...