Date: Friday, June 6, 2025
Time: 10:30 a.m. EST
Location: The Learning Center, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Cost: Free and open to the public
Theme: Women Musicians & Songwriters
Join us in the museum’s Learning Center for our monthly Museum Storytime program. Aimed at toddler-age children and their grown-ups, we will gather on the first Friday of each month for a music- or Appalachia-related storybook, a tune or two by WBCM Radio Bristol show host Ella Patrick, and a related activity or coloring sheet. The craft will be swifty friendship bracelets.
Books that will be featured at Storytime include:
- Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
- Little People, Big Dreams: Ella Fitzgerald by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara (Author), Bàrbara Alca (Illustrator)
- Little People, Big Dreams: Taylor Swift by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara (Author), Borghild Fallberg (Illustrator)
Date: Friday, May 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 a.m. EST
Location: The Learning Center, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Cost: Free and open to the public
Theme: The Highwaymen
Join us in the museum’s Learning Center for our monthly Museum Storytime program. Aimed at toddler-age children and their grown-ups, we will gather on the first Friday of each month for a music- or Appalachia-related storybook, a tune or two by WBCM Radio Bristol show host Ella Patrick, and a related activity or coloring sheet. The craft will be bandana decorating.
Books that will be featured at Storytime include:
- Hello, I’m Johnny Cash by G. Neri (Author), A.G. Ford (Illustrator)
- A Little Golden Book Biography: Willie Nelson by Geof Smith (Author), Jeffrey Ebbeler (Illustrator)
Date: Friday, April 4, 2025
Time: 10:30 a.m. EST
Location: The Learning Center, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Cost: Free and open to the public
Theme: Rainy Days
Join us in the museum’s Learning Center for our monthly Museum Storytime program. Aimed at toddler-age children and their grown-ups, we will gather on the first Friday of each month for a music- or Appalachia-related storybook, a tune or two by WBCM Radio Bristol show host Ella Patrick, and a related activity or coloring sheet. The craft will be making a rain cloud.
Books that will be featured at Storytime include:
- Lorraine: The Girl Who Sang the Storm Away by Ketch Secor (Author), Higgins Bond (Illustrator)
- Come A Tide by George Ella Lyon (Author), Stephen Gammell (Illustrator)
Date: Friday, March 7, 2025
Time: 10:30 a.m. EST
Location: The Learning Center, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Cost: Free and open to the public
Theme: Animals
Join us in the museum’s Learning Center for our monthly Museum Storytime program. Aimed at toddler-age children and their grown-ups, we will gather on the first Friday of each month for a music- or Appalachia-related storybook, a tune or two by WBCM Radio Bristol show host Ella Patrick, and a related activity or coloring sheet. The craft will be working with miniature banjos.
Books that will be featured at Storytime include:
- Hello, Crow by Jeff Daniel Marion (Author), Leslie Bowman (Illustrator)
- Mousie HiWay: The Adventures of Banjo Mouse in the Appalachian Mountains by Michael Johnathon
