Our Favorite Resources

Quality resources for getting your storytimes started or boosting them to the next level.

 
 

Books We Love

Thematic book suggestions to diversify your storytime reads.

 
 

Songs We Love

Songs and rhymes that are safe for storytime.

This space supports librarians, teachers, and educators in developing diverse, equitable, and inclusive early literacy programming and book collections. We share songs, tips, resources, and book recommendations that support little learners, their families, and our fellow educators.

Courses in Solidarity

Fun and affordable professional development for early childhood educators doing storytime.

Niche Academy

Storytime Solidarity

Follow our solidarity blog of storytimers conquering issues and creating the space to let kids grow!

They hold the line book cover.Book ListsStorytimeTough TopicsDealing with disasters
January 16, 2025

Dealing with disasters

Praying for everyone in LA. Hoping for the safety of the families, the babies, the elderly, the unhoused, the libraries, of you all .   Those winds are relentless, those wildfires…
Storytime Solidarity team.Diversity & InclusionSongsStorytimeWill You Come to Storytime?
January 14, 2025

Will You Come to Storytime?

Join a few members of the Storytime Solidarity team as we welcome everyone with this kind and inclusive song! https://youtu.be/0MgamVImRdY?si=4-kEj7IwT4J3Zy0p Lyrics and Chords:  CHORUS: Will you come to storytime, to…
If you plant a seed book cover.Book ListsProgrammingSongsStorytimeTough TopicsPlanting a Kindness Seed
November 25, 2024

Planting a Kindness Seed

But, it can be really hard. Hard to keep smiling, when you want to rage. Hard to sing, when you want to scream. To help, we've gathered together some of…
What Lolo wants book cover.Diversity & InclusionInterviewsFilipino American History Month: Interview with author Cristina Oxtra
October 24, 2024

Filipino American History Month: Interview with author Cristina Oxtra

I was thrilled to first meet children’s author, Cristina Oxtra, in May 2022 at the public library I work at. Cristina read her book, TAE KWON DO TEST, followed by…
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