Laurie’s Stories
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The “Mother Goose Rapper”, Laurie Story brings her BookTelling show to _________________ Library to celebrate literacy and add to the fun of the (Summer Reading) Youth Program. Laurie Story shows are for families, preschoolers and school age kids; the Laurie Story characters and books will have you reading, singing and rhyming along.

Laurie Story Vela, aka, the “Mother Goose Rapper” is an Author/Illustrator and BookTelling performer with her all original Laurie’s Stories. (Hailing from California,) Laurie Story will be here on ___________________with her special BookTelling show; at _______ a.m./p.m. (The show is sponsored by the Friends of The Library.)

Laurie's Stories has a special summer show, Laurie's Bedtime Stories: Dream Green in keeping with the nation's theme of Dream Big - Read. We will be rhyming, singing, dreaming green with the Queen, sleeping deep with sheep, flying on Red Fred's red bedspread, finding an armadillo on the pillow, a bed on Mel's head & more! Laurie's Bedtime Stories is linking soon as another branch of Laurie Story's Leaping Literacy Online Library.

Laurie Story has hundreds of books, songs, videos. You can read and play along with Laurie Story on the web site: http://www.lauriesstories.com  The site features the Leaping Literacy Online Library with free membership for delightful, digital downloadable videos and sample mp3s & Laurie StorEBooksTM. Free Marvelous Membership also offers Fun Phonics Play Pages with interactive language games to play with the Laurie Story characters. Laurie Story says that Laurie's Stories & the Leaping Literacy Online Library put the FUN in reading FUNdamentals because children deserve play time & literacy lasts a lifetime.
Laurie Story Vela, M.A. has been touring the nation's schools and libraries since the early 90’s  with Laurie's Stories. With a strong foundation in the FUNdamentals of literacy, the all original stories, rhymes, songs and characters forge the way with an unusual voice for edutainment. The strong literacy foundation of Laurie's Stories grew out of Laurie’s Master's Thesis from UC Davis in 1992. Her focus was on blending phonics and whole language and she's been letting her audience's refine the fun ever since. Her interactive shows combine Laurie Story Books & Songs, Word Wonders and Phonics Farm characters in a celebration of language, literacy and imagination.

The "Mother Goose Rapper", Laurie Story invites you to join in on
 the BookTelling rhyme, alliteration, and song. So, come on and read along!