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

Laurie Story Vela, aka, the “Mother Goose Rapper” is an Author/Illustrator and BookTelling performer with her all original Laurie’s Stories. Her 8 year old son, Jeremiah sometimes performs with Laurie. Hailing from California, Laurie Story (& Jeremiah) 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 Story has hundreds of books and dozens of shows and her featured show this summer is Book Bugs in conjunction with the nation's library cooperative theme, "Catch The Reading Bug ." You can read and play along with the Laurie Story show on the web site: http://www.lauriesstories.com

The site features Laurie Stor-E BooksTM to read and hear as well as interactive language games to play with the Laurie Story characters. Laurie's Stories is also launching a video component which will offer short Booktelling performances weekly as part of the 13 week online program. You can join Book Bugs and read and play for free each week for 13 weeks from June 1-September 1 on the Laurie Story website: http://www.lauriesstories.com The site has free downloadable mp3s and Laurie Stor-E BooksTM year round and also the practically free Leaping Literacy Online Library. The Leaping Literacy Program covers all the vowel sounds as well as more than a dozen themes with hundreds of interactive language games and hundreds of Laurie Stor-E BooksTM.

Laurie Story Vela, M.A. has been touring the nation's schools and libraries since the early nineties with Laurie's Stories. Using 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 on blending phonics and whole language in 1992 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!