Baby Storytime, Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m.
Join us for bounces, songs, books, play, and social time with other babies and their caregivers. Geared to babies birth to 24 months. Siblings always welcome.
Evening Storytime, Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m.
Join us to talk, sing, read, write, and play together as we build early literacy skills while having fun! Geared to children aged 2-5 and their caregivers. Siblings always welcome.
Family Storytime, Thursdays at 10:00 a.m.
Join us to talk, sing, read, write, and play together as we build early literacy skills while having fun! Geared to children aged 2-5 and their caregivers. Siblings always welcome.
NEW for 2025!
Oasis Storytime, first two Thursdays of the month at 11:00 a.m.
The Library Oasis is in the Northfield Community Resource Center Building at 1651 Jefferson Parkway. Join us to talk, sing, read, write, and play together as we build early literacy skills while having fun! Geared to children aged 2-5 and their caregivers. Siblings always welcome.
Bilingual Storytime will now meet once a month on a Saturday. January's will be on Saturday, January 18.
Don't forget that you can "attend" storytime with Northfield Public Library any time you like! Please visit our archive of storytimes on the library's YouTube Channel.
You are your child's first teacher, and your child will get more out of storytime if you take what we shared home with you and reintroduce it.
If you attend Baby Storytime, try doing the rhymes and bounces we shared at home.
If you attend Family Storytime, notice and point out the "letter of the day" wherever you see it. Ask your child to retell one of the stories we shared to a friend or family member who wasn't there. Play "I spy something that starts with [the letter of the day--or any letter; it's always a good game]."
These are quick and easy ways to boost your child's early literacy skills and the effects of storytime. Give them a try!
See below for favorite storytime rhymes and songs to listen, dance, and bounce to at home.
Try singing and moving to these storytime favorites at home! Singing and rhyming build children's listening skills and help them hear that words are made up of smaller sounds.
Further down, you'll find a video playlist of librarians performing songs and fingerplays in Spanish.
Family Storytime Favorites
Baby Storytime Favorites
If you need help finding the music CDs that contain these songs, just ask. If the library doesn't carry the CD you need, we can order it for you via interlibrary loan. Some musicians we recommend and play often: Laurie Berkner, Jim Gill, The Learning Groove (available through MNLink), Ralph's World, and the CD Songs for Wiggleworms.
Storytimes other than Northfield Public Library's that you can access at any time.
*Storytime from Space features astronauts reading story books while floating around in orbit!
*Tell Me a Story from the King County Library System offers TONS of action rhyme and fingerplay videos by librarians, so you can chant along and do the motions with them just like in in-person storytime! Rhymes and chants like these build children's ability to hear that words are made up of syllables, an important skill for learning to read. Below is one playlist; you'll find even more at the site.
*Storyline Online offers videos of celebrities reading picture books like The Kissing Hand, Harry the Dirty Dog, Strega Nona, and more. One reservation: rather than showing people reading books while facing the viewing audience, the videos are done as voice-overs in which the illustrations are "animated" slightly and the text does not appear--so children can't see the words and connect them to the story. Your child will hear the text of picture books, but the experience will be more like watching a slow-moving cartoon.
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