There are plenty of everyday activities for kids and their caretakers to enjoy. A walk in the park, playing with a favorite toy or spending time with friends all offer opportunities to be engaged and amused. But there’s something special about attending a planned entertainment.
Whether it’s a celebratory party, a community get-together, a dance performance or a concert, appreciating others’ talents (or exploring your own) can be a wonderful experience. Celebrations of all sorts take center stage in the titles below. Check them out—and enjoy as many encores as you like.
This booklist was created in support of BUZZWORD PGH to encourage imagination, investigation, creation, and reflection. Available to families throughout Allegheny County, BUZZWORD PGH engages young children and their families as they discover the words that are all around them.
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Kindergartner Alaina is excited about thanking the audience at the end of the second-grade play, but she is overwhelmed by the performance and has to share her enthusiasm, center stage.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Hoopla.
A young girl makes her way through an urban neighborhood filled with children playing, men debating, women cooking, and jazz music playing as her community gathers to celebrate “Neighbors’ Day.”
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Hoopla.
Illustrations and easy-to-read text celebrate a baby’s first birthday and all of the different babies who attend the party, whether friendly, sleepy, or wriggly.
This upbeat picture book–a companion to “Ride, Roll, Run: Time for Fun!”–follows the nine children from the first book as they help plan a big, musical block party.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook Hoopla.
It’s Friday night, and on the bustling streets of Mumbai, a girl heads out with her family to the cinema. As she rides through the winding blocks with her maa, baba, and bhai, old melodies fill the car. And as she captures the sights and sounds of the city with her camera, she imagines a movie unfolding before her eyes.
This happy, vibrant tribute to Rock Your Mocs Day, observed yearly on November 15, celebrates the joy and power of wearing moccasins–and the Native pride that comes with them.
A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby.
When Little Lobo, his dog Bernabé, and their pals El Toro and La Oink Oink use a new truck to carry party supplies over the bridge, they run into a long line at the border crossing. How will they pass the time?
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudio on Libby and as an eBook and eAudio on Hoopla.
Inspired by watching a performance of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, a young black boy longs to dance and enrolls in ballet school.
The moose plays the cello. The deer, violin. And it’s ONE-two-three, ONE-two-three, time to begin!