The New Digger & David Season is here!!!
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Eat Like a Pirate
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It’s a grand Pirate adventure it ‘tis, a race between Captain Cook and Captain Drive-thru!
And along the way our young Pirates git to larn ‘bout eating in mod-arr-ation, the importance o’ exercise and moving their bodies, how to choose the good stuff to snack on (food identification) and discover why y’ should steer clear o’ the dreaded Sugar Shack on Processed Food Island; Arrrrgh!!!
Themes: Healthy Eating, Dining Table Bravery, Trying Something New. And Pirate Jokes!
Q: What’s a Pirate’s favorite workout? A: The Plank!!!
The Big Sleepover Halloween Show
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It’s a cold and rainy Halloween night and Digger just wants to go to bed. Suddenly there’s a knock on his door! Someone’s out in the cold and the rain and wants Digger to share his warm and very dry home tonight. What should Digger do? What would you do?
This age appropriate, highly interactive story of friendship, sharing, and personal responsibility was created especially for the 2-to-6-year old crowd and is the perfect way to swing into fall. Perfect for Halloween, too! (And it's not scary at all.)
Themes: Friendship, Sharing, Personal Responsibility, Judging Others.
Related Books:
Bearsie Bear and the Surprise Sleep Over Party by Bernard Weber
The Mitten by Jan Brett
Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems
The Mine-O-Saur by Sudipata Barchan-Quallen
Caution: There's a little bit of water in this show!
How Coyote Saved
The Day!
(A Winter's Tale)
The Sun has been stolen and all the world is cold and in the dark!
Coyote and his intrepid animal friends set out to bring the Sun with its warmth and light back to the earth.
A exciting story inspired by several major winter myths from around the world.
How Coyote Saved the Day! is age appropriate and highly interactive.
Winter is coming, and this is a great story to tell when it gets here!
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Themes: Team Work, Cooperation, Animals, Seasons, World Myth.
Related Books:
Where Does The Sun Go? by Gary Craig
Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott
The Reasons For Seasons by Gail Gibbons
Winter Is For Snow by Robert Neubecker
Caution: There's a little bit of water in this show!
The Snow Show
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It’s white, it’s cold, it’s covering everything…It’s SNOW!!
And Digger wants to go out and play the day away!
Join Digger and David as they explore this amazing thing called Snow!
And you don’t even need to put on your heavy boots and mittens.
Related Books:
Snow by Ray McKie and P.D. Eastman
Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner
The Snowy Day by Ezra Keats
The Story of Snow by Mark Cassino
The Mitten by Jan Brett
Oh Say Can You Say What’s the Weather Today? by Tish Rabe
The Seuss is Loose Show!
Great for Read Across America
Puppets, Magic, Storytelling, Rhyme,
and Words, Words, Words.
A show that honors the most beloved children’s book author of all time.
Puppets, Magic, Storytelling, Rhyme, and Words, Words, Words.
And to think it all happened in your school or library!
One Fish, Two Fish
Green Eggs and Ham
Fox in Socks
And so many more!
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Dr. Zing-Zong's Mus-ick-ological Show!
Our own one-of-a-kind Doctor of Mus-ick-ology brings his silly-merry brand of dance, magic, clowning, rhythm making, music vocabulary and general folderol in celebration of the joys of music and moving to the beat.
This is a very interactive show with lots of music, lots of movement, lots of kids on stage and it all ends with a big dance party!
Caution: There's a little bit of water in this show.
Ideal for all ages.
Themes: Music, rhythm, movement and having fun while you move to the beat!
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Inch Bear
An Unexpected Bullying Story
For every child who was ever told that she couldn’t
when inside knew she could.
Inch Bear is so small and cute you could just pinch her cheeks.
And being so small and cute the Bullies always pick on her.
They tell her she is not good for anything.
They laugh and tell her to just give up.
But Inch Bear never gives up and, in the end, teaches a timeless lesson on standing up for yourself, and about the assumptions we all make about people we don’t know very well.
Themes: Bullying and self-respect
Related Books and stories:
Thumbeline by Hans Christian Anderson
Little Inchkin by Fiona French
Tom Thumb by English folktale
Erkenek by Turkish Folktale
The Magic Pot Show!
The idea of the magic pot that can cook by itself is centuries old. Our version is inspired by Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice and the much loved children's book, Strega Nona.
The Magic Pot Show features Gram Adele, a wise, old magical woman who uses her magic to help all her friends. But Digger, her new assistant, comes on and soon has her magic pot cooking and can't figure out how to make it stop!
Themes: Personal Responsibility and Truth-Telling.
Related Books:
Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola
The Magic Pot Story by Pleasant deSpain
Two of Everything by Lily Toy Hong
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The Wizard of Color
Perfect for Spring!
Seems like Winter has been here forever and The Wizard longs for something more than grey. He decides to help things along when he whips up something new: Color! Soon it’s, “Goodbye Grey, hello Blue and Yellow and Red!“ Spring can’t get here soon enough!
The Wizard of Color is an age appropriate story that uses Puppets and Color Magic to make the world a much more colorful place. It’s a story of Spring and all the things that can come from the Primary Colors.
Inspired by Arnold Lobel’s children’s classic,
The Great Blueness.
Themes: Spring, Color Identification, Color Blending.
Related Books:
The Color Bugs by Barbara Backes
How Do Dinosaurs Learn Colors and Numbers by Jane Yolen
Babar's Book of Colors by Laurent de Brunhoff
There's Something
Under My Bed
The Perfect PJ Day or Back-to-School Puppet Show!
School starts tomorrow, and Digger needs a good night’s sleep. But something is keeping him up! David doesn’t believe him, so Digger just has to deal with it himself.
There’s Something Under My Bed is an age appropriate, highly interactive puppetry show about PJ’s, getting ready for school and overcoming your fears about that thing that goes bump in the night.
Caution: There’s a little bit of water in this show!
Themes: Back to School, PJ Day, Overcoming Fear, Self-reliance.
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Related Books:
There's an Alligator Under My Bed by Mercer Mayer
There is a Monster Under My Bed Who Farts by Tim Miller and Matt Stanton
There's A Kid Under My Bed by Lisa Funari-Willever and Lon Levin
A Gift From The Moon
A Puppet show about Space, the Moon, with a touch of Magic.
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Since before people figured out how to read and write, they have looked up at the Moon and wondered.
And probably everyone you have ever met has a story about the Moon.
And a question or two.
How big is the Moon?
How far away is the Moon?
How old is the Moon…
…And what does it want for its birthday?
A story of friendship and forgiveness
all wrapped inside the bigger story
of the Moon and Space itself.
Caution: There’s a little bit of water in this show!
Inspired by Frank Asch’s Happy Birthday, Moon.
Themes: Space, the Moon, Forgiveness, and Adventure.
Related Books:
Nonni’s Moon by Julia Inserro & Lucy Smith
Owl Moon by Jane Yolan
The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons
My Golden Book about The First Moon Landing by Charles Lovitt and Bryan Sims
Little Red Writes Her Own Story
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Little Red Riding Hood has to take her basket of goodies to Granny’s house,
just like she has since the 6th century.
That’s how old the story is!
But just because someone wrote the story a certain way a long time ago doesn’t mean we have to always follow what they wrote.
What if Little Red decided to do something different for a change?
And what if she helped other story book characters do something different too?
Who knows what could happen when you start to follow your heart on these things?
Themes: Fairy-tales, Self-empowerment, Risk-taking, and the wonder of making Bold Choices.
Related Books:
We Are in a Book by Mo Willems
Oh, The Thinks You Can Think by Dr. Seuss
The Princess & the Pepperoni Pizza (What Happens Next?) by Amy Joy
Digger’s Big “All Together Now” Magic Show
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Perfect for library’s 2023 “All Together Now” summer theme.
Digger has created his first magic show and naturally he asked his best friends to help.
Minky the Monkey-in-a Hat, and Shelby the Sheepdog both do their best to out-Houdini Houdini and total silliness results.
Age appropriate and very audience interactive.
Themes: Cooperation, friendship, teamwork, and MAGIC!
Related Books:
The Big Book of Magic Tricks for Kids Using Everyday Objects: Easy Step-by-Step Magic Tricks with Coins, Ropes, Matches & More! By Jasper Todd
Magic Tricks for Kids: Easy Step-by-Step Instructions for 25 Amazing Illusions By Phil Ackerly
Magical Things: How to Draw Books for Kids with Unicorns, Dragons, Mermaids, and More (How to Draw For Kids Series) By Alli Koch