READING ADVENTURE TREASURE CHEST KIT #33
AROUND THE WORLD

This Reading Adventure Treasure Chest Kit has been assembled to provide a thematic list of storytime materials for use by enhanced members and their patrons.  The kit is geared toward the preschool age group yet is flexible enough to capture the interest of toddlers and early school age children.  The Activity Ideas are designed to be aids to use the materials listed in the kits.

If you would like more information concerning this project, contact SERLS via e-mail at dirserls@oplin.org.oplin.org.

Material Type	Title	Author
BOOK	Arroz Con Leche	LULU DELACRE
BOOK	Arthur's Family Vacation	MARC BROWN
BOOK	Away From Home	ANITA LOBEL
BOOK	The Big Big Sea	MARTIN WADDEL
BOOK	The Cajun Gingerbread Boy (with cardboard gingerbread boy)	BERTHE AMOSS
BOOK	Cleversticks	BERNARD ASHLEY
BOOK	Counting Our Way To Maine	MAGGIE SMITH
BOOK	Faces	SHELLEY ROTNER and KEN KREISLER
BOOK	Flood Fish	ROBYN EVERSOLE
BOOK	Hats Hats Hats	ANN MORRIS
BOOK	How To Make An Apple Pie And See The World	MARJORIE PRICEMAN
BOOK	Moe The Dog In Tropical Paradise	DIANE STANLEY
BOOK	Not So Fast Songololo	NIKI DALY
BOOK	One White Sail: A Caribbean Counting Book	S. T. GARNE
BOOK	Rata Pata Scata Fata	PHILLIS GERSHATOR
BOOK	This Is The Way We Eat Our Lunch	EDITH BAER
BOOK	Until I Saw The Sea	ALISON SHAW
BOOK	The Way To Captain Yankee's	ANNE ROCKWELL
BOOK	What A Wonderful World	GEORGE DAVID WEISS and BOB THIELE
BOARD BOOK	In - Out Dentro - Fuera	RICHARD DUERRSTEIN
BIG BOOK	Tikki Tikki Tembo	ARLENE MOSEL
RESOURCE BOOK	Big Book Of Fun	CAROLYN BUHAI HAAS
BOOK & TAPE	Dr. De Soto Goes To Africa	WILLIAM STEIG
CASSETTE	Down The Do-Re-Mi	RED GRAMMER
VHS	Sesame Street Celebrates Around The World
TOY	Hug A Planet Ball

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ACTIVITY IDEAS AND FINGERPLAYS

Listen to the song "Brothers and Sisters" on Red Grammer's Down The Do-Re-Mi. Teach the children the easy-to-follow chorus and sing along with the recording. The song opens and closes with greetings from children around the world.

After hearing the big book Tikki Tikki Tembo, read aloud, older children will quickly memorize the refrain: Tikki Tikki Tembo No-Se Rembo Chari Bari Ruchi Pip Peri Pembo. Even younger children will memorize portions of the refrain. This can be used as the basis for a tag game in which the child who is "it" tags someone while the others chant the rhyme. Or you bounce a ball back and forth as the group chants the refrain in unison.

Read The Cajun Gingerbread Boy by Berthe Amoss. Use the cardboard gingerbread boy as you tell the story. The book has slits on several pages which you can slide the gingerbread boy through. After this story follow the recipe and make gingerbread boys of your own. Or share store bought gingerbread boy treats.

Invite children to look at the Hug a Planet Ball. Point out to them how much of the world is covered by water. Many children in Southern Ohio may never have had the opportunity to see the sea. Ask your children if they have ever been to the ocean. Have them describe their experiences. For a special treat, turn your story area into a beach. Invite children to sit on blankets or beach towels. Surround them with pails, shovels and shifters. Read Counting Our Way To Maine.

Ocean Shell
I found a great big shell
(Hold hands cupped as if holding large shell)
Upon the ocean floor.
I held it close up to my ear.
I heard the ocean roar!
I found a tiny little shell one day
(One hand cupped as if holding little shell)
Upon the ocean sand
The waves had worn it nice and smooth.
(Pretend to roll shell between palms of both hands)
It felt nice in my hand.

Different and the Same
You use the chopsticks,
(Open and close two fingers on one hand)
I use a fork.
(Hold up three fingers of other hand)
You're not all like me.
(Shake head)
I eat my hot dot,
(Hold out hand in fist)
You like rice.
(Cup other hand)
You're not all like me.
(Shake head)
But your mom cooked your food for you.
(Point to other person)
You eat it to grow tall.
(Touch head)
My mom did the same for me.
(Open hands, hold up shoulder high)
We're not so different after

all!

Ask your local children's librarian about more fingerplays, activities and books such as these recommended titles:

• The Day Of Ahmed's Secret by Florence Parry Heide. Young Ahmed views his city of Cairo through new eyes as he's bursting to tell his new secret he's learned to write his name.
• Our Home Is The Sea by Riki Levinson. One the last day of school, a young boy hurries through the busy streets of Hong Kong, home to the harbor and his family's houseboat.
• Wee Gillis by Munro Leaf. Wee Gillis can't decide whether to live in the lowlands and call the cows or in the highlands and stalk stags. In the mean time, his lungs develop and he is the finest bagpiper in Scotland.