Storytelling Resources

1. These storytelling materials check out through the Central Kansas Library System Youth Services Department and are to be used in member libraries for library programs.

2. Please request these items by title and code number on the Storytelling Materials

3. Request Form. Use a separate request form when requesting items for different dates.

4. Storytelling materials will be mailed four days before the requested date. Please allow for mailing time.

5. The storytelling materials need to be back to the System on, or before, the due date.
   Please consider the other librarians and have them back on time.

6. Storytelling materials are due two weeks from the request date.

7. You will be notified only if the storytelling materials requested are NOT available or substituted.

8. Send requests to CKLS, 1409 Williams, Great Bend, Kansas, 67530.

9. If you have any questions, call Marquita Boehnke or Children's Department Assistant at 1-800-362-2642, and they'll be glad to help.

10. You can search for items with the Great Bend Public Library's Athena Catalog using the link above.

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Object Stories

• OB 1(A,B,C,D) "Barnaby Bunny's Basket" Pocket Story (includes poem)

• OB 2 "The Carrot Seed" large, stuffed, orange carrot (includes story)

• OB 3 "Elmer, The Patchwork Elephant" Apron Story (includes story)

• OB 4 "The Enormous Turnip" large, stuffed, purple turnip (includes story)

• OB 5(A,B,C) "Fat Old Lady" Pocket Story (includes story)

• OB 6 "The Fat Cat" Box Story (includes script, cassette and 9 pieces)

• OB 7(A,B,C) "Greedy Dog" Pocket Story (includes story and 16 pieces)

• OB 8(A,B) "Popcorn Dragon" green felt dragon fits most hot air popcorn poppers (includes story)

• OB 9(A,B,C) "Plush Food Models" Drumstick, Carrot, Strawberry, Bread Slice, Milk Carton, Raisin Bran Box (includes poem and riddle)

• OB 10(A,B,C) "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" (Includes story, 1 leaf w/pearl, 1 leaf, 1 caterpillar, 1 butterfly, and 26 "food" items)

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Flannelboard Stories

• FB 1 "Blue Bug's Vegetable Garden" (includes story)

• FB 2 "Calico Cat Looks Around" (includes cat with book)

• FB 3(A,B) "Chicken Little" (includes story)

• FB 4(A,B) "Eight Giggling Ghosts" stick or flannelboard story (includes poem)

• FB 5 "Five Colorful Kittens" (includes poem and five kittens)

• FB 6 "Five Fat Walruses" (includes poem)

• FB 7 "Five Snowmen" (includes poem)

• FB 8 "Fruits and Nuts" (includes 19 very colorful felt pieces: apple, apricots, avocado, bananas, cherries, fig, grapefruit, grapes, guava, lemon, 2 clusters of nuts, orange, peach, pear, pineapple, plum, strawberries, watermelon)

• FB 9(A,B) "The Little Red Hen" (includes story)

• FB 10 "The Proud White Cat" (includes story and cassette)

• FB 11 "Spilt Milk" story about shapes and clouds (includes story)

• FB 12 "Stone Soup" (includes story and 12 very colorful felt pieces)

• FB 13 "Under the Sea" (a set of 26 felt sea shapes)

• FB 14 "Bugs" (a set of 30 felt bug shapes)

• FB 15 "Weather" (a set of 30 felt weather shapes)

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Flip Cards

• FL 1 "Clothespin Games" Set of 20 game cards. Requesting library will need to provide spring clothespins for games.

• FL 2 "The Fat Cat Folktale" by Jack Kent. Flip Cards (includes story)

• FL 3 "Monkey Face" Flip Cards (includes story)

• FL 4 "The Snake That Sneezed" Flip Cards attached to "snake" (includes story)

• FL 5 "Alka Seltzer" Chorus Cards

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Last Updated 06/14/2005