I recently began a monthly Nature Story Time program at the Humboldt State University Natural History Museum. Each month, I post the programs here on the website, and include the program guide in the Spirited Review newsletter. It is my hope that parents and educators will find this a useful resource for building both personal and public libraries as well as story programs. (Note: when a program includes books I have reviewed, those titles are be linked for your convenience.)

Rocks. We live on, build with, burn and wear them. What are they, how do they take shape? And what do they mean?

• Everybody Needs A Rock by Byrd Baylor, ill. by Peter Parnall
• Rock by Maia Cheli-Colando
• The Fossil Girl: Mary Anning's Dinosaur Discovery by Catherine Brighton
• Two poems by Chia Tao, translated by Mike O'Connor in When I Find You Again It Will Be in Mountains
• The Mountains of Tibet by Mordicai Gerstein
• Rocks in His Head by Carol Otis Hurst, ill. by James Stevenson
• and various rock and mineral resource books

• Animal Song