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Dial-A-Story
Dial-A-Story Picks July 2021
Do you want to hear a story from YCL staff at any time?
Call the Library’s Dial-A-Story phone line at 803-620-8585. You'll hear stories for adults, teens, and children, as well as music and songs, poetry, jokes and riddles, history tidbits, trivia, and more! You can also listen online via the links below as stories become available.
Children
Information on the Tales and Tails Summer Learning Challenge
Joke selections from The A to Z Food Joke Book and The A to Z Knock Knock Joke Book, by Vasco Icuza
Lullabies from The Big Lullaby Songbook, compiled by Wise Publications
Parts, by Tedd Arnold
Pirate Nell's Tale to Tell: A Storybook Adventure, by Helen Docherty
The Relatives Came, by Cynthia Rylant
Tiny Little Fly, by Michael Rosen
A Weekend with Wendell, by Kevin Henkes
Teens
"Facts about the 50 States," from Weird But True!: 300 Fascinating Facts about the Fifty States, published by National Geographic
Information about National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, from "Power to the Poets," an article from Teen Breathe Magazine, Issue 26
Olympic Trivia, from CNN.com
Adults
"Eternity," by William Blake
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," by William Wordsworth
Independence Day Information
Library News and Updates
"Life Is Fine," by Langston Hughes
Patriotic Piano Medley
"A Sunny Day Waterfall," by Sybrina Spencer
"Wild Nights – Wild Nights!" by Emily Dickinson
View the Dial-A-Story picks from last month.