Story Hour Kit

Get Your Extraordinary On

Posted by Kirsten Cappy on Jan 1, 2015 in Activity Kit, Book Themed Events, Children's Book Awards, Event Kit, Kinetic Literacy, Story Hour Kit | Comments Off on Get Your Extraordinary On

Congratulations to Sarah Dillard! Her Extraordinary Warren: A Super Chicken is a Finalist for the Cybils! The Extraordinary Sarah reached out to Curious City looking for ways to get the word out about her two forthcoming picture book/early reader/comic book chicken-hero releases. As with each new client, we started with a brainstorm, That brainstorm looked like this… Makes perfect sense right? The result of the brainstorm was the decision to create a Story Hour Kit where readers could become “extraordinary” themselves. Together Sarah and I developed three...

All Hat, No Cattle: Marketing Q&A

Posted by Kirsten Cappy on May 27, 2013 in Book Trailer, Community Partnerships, Contest, Event Kit, Marketing Item, School Visits, Social Media, Speaking, Story Hour Kit | 2 comments

Thanks to all the creators that attended Curious City’s “All Hat and No Cattle Children’s Book Marketing in Today’s Wild, Wild West” talk at the SCBWI Wild, Wild Midwest Conference. You had great questions. I hope these are great answers. (For those with website or blog questions, I answered your questions over yonder.) CURIOUS CITY How does Curious City work with new clients? What do you cost? Does Curious City work with unpublished authors and illustrators? Self-published creators? Thanks for asking. That is swell of you. These questions are best answered on...

Raj Roars Into Virginia

Posted by Kirsten Cappy, Curious City on Jul 24, 2012 in Activity Kit, Giveaway, Story Hour Kit | Comments Off on Raj Roars Into Virginia

Having heard that Raj the Bookstore Tiger by Kathleen T. Pelley (Charlesbridge Publishing) was nominated for a Library of Virginia Whitney and Scott Cardozo Award for Children’s Literature, the fabulous Curious City summer intern, Allison Chase bundled up 50 Raj the Bookstore Tiger Story Hour Kits to send to Virginia libraries to help them celebrate. Booksellers, librarians, and educators, you can download your very own Story Hour kit with tigerish crafts, tigerish word games, and tigerish poems HERE. Share...

Pond Babies Shower

Posted by Kirsten Cappy, Curious City on Aug 2, 2011 in Event Kit, Giveaway, Story Hour Kit | Comments Off on Pond Babies Shower

Quack away, my dear friends, because a group of national schools and libraries just won signed copies of Pond Babies by Cathryn Falwell (there she is signing right now!) Thanks to the kind and clever folks from Down East Books, this toddler picture book will be paddling through the mail to the fine folks below. But, my dear ducks, you can all win by downloading a FREE Pond Babies Story Hour Kit with animal matching games, fun movement prompts, and a rather sweet craft. Dedham School Dakota County Heritage Library MCLS: Bedford Branch Ben Franklin Elementary Adrian School...

Anna Alter, Master of Disguise!

Posted by Kirsten Cappy, Curious City on Oct 29, 2010 in Activity Kit, Event Kit, Story Hour Kit | 2 comments

The fabulous Anna Alter has just released a book sure to rescue all us wallflowers and to playfully sedate the bodacious amongst us. The picture book, Disappearing Desmond depicts a young creature who would just as soon NOT be noticed. Desmond is a master of disguise, pulling attention away from himself by blending into the background. He meets his match in Gloria, a gal who likes to notice and BE noticed. Anna Alter and Curious City started their brainstorm with Desmond’s Master of Disguise Kit (Lovely Anna modeling in photo!) and grew that into ‘an activity kit...