Large group storytimes: no pre-registration
All Together Storytime @ the JCC
Tuesdays @ 9:30 or 10:30
(All ages)
Tuesdays @ 9:30 or 10:30
(All ages)
Informal storytime & lively music that seeks to build positive relationships with books for all ages.
3960 Montclair Rd
Birmingham, AL 35213
Enter through the main doors (not the school or ELC) and check in at the front desk. Storytime is in the auditorium. Library staff will be there to direct you. No registration is necessary - all ages welcome!
Birmingham, AL 35213
Enter through the main doors (not the school or ELC) and check in at the front desk. Storytime is in the auditorium. Library staff will be there to direct you. No registration is necessary - all ages welcome!
Due to renovations, LOL is indefinitely suspended
LOL Story Adventure
Tuesdays @ 3:30
LOL Story Adventure
Tuesdays @ 3:30
(Grades K - 2nd)
Sign in and drop off for a live-action storytime.
Sign in and drop off for a live-action storytime.
Small group storytime: limited space
Storytimes @ The Jewish Community Center
3960 Montclair Rd. Birmingham, AL 35213
Enter through the main doors (not N.E. Miles School or ELC) and check in at the front desk.
Library staff will be there to direct you. No registration is necessary - Register for small group storytime before attending.
Patty Cake @ The JCC
Starting back on September 3
Thursdays @ 10:30
(infant to around 18 month)
Caregiver guided storytime activities designed to boost development.
Register Here
Starting back on September 3
Thursdays @ 10:30
(infant to around 18 month)
Caregiver guided storytime activities designed to boost development.
Register Here
Toddler Tales @ The JCC
Starting back on September 2Wednesdays @ 10:30
(Toddlers to around 3 years old)
Directed movement storytime by establishing routine & build attention and literacy skills.
Register Here
Directed movement storytime by establishing routine & build attention and literacy skills.
Register Here
Movers & Makers @ The JCC
Starting back on September 2Wednesdays @ 1:30
(age 3 - 5)
Kindergarten Prep storytime by building cooperation, enthusiasm for reading & readiness skills.
Register Here
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- The octopus 6/4
- My sister, Goose 6/4
- Now you know your ABCs 6/4
- Little Ghost's summerween 6/4
- Capy Capy Capybara 6/4
- The naked streak 6/4
- The sun thief 6/4
- The whale's tale and the otter's side of the story 6/4
- The sun thief 6/4
- The naked streak 6/4
- Gigantic 6/4
- Billie builds a robocorn 6/4
- Sheep & Goat climb the world 6/4
- Can you grow a striped banana? 6/4
- Sockflea : a stuffie in the wild 6/4
- Claire and the cathedral 6/4
- Hide, fish, hide! 8/18
- First fire: an Algonkian story 8/18
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- How to say you're sorry 4/17
- who nests here? 4/17
- Welcome to the anthill 4/17
- Mama won't mind 4/17
- Claire and the cathedral
- Into the Wilderness 4/17
- Quietly...quietly...quack! 3/30
- Wake up, grouchy bear! 3/30
- Read all about it! 3/30
- Is this . . . spring? 3/30
- Read all about it! 3/30
- Better than a touchdown 3/30
- Laugh 3/30
- Alone & together 3/25
- Unexpected guests 3/25
- Plenty of pancakes 3/25
- Goodnight, Bruce 3/25
- Wally and Mammoth: Hide and seek 3/25
- Forty the Fortune Teller 3/25
- My tiger 3/25
- Here come the cousins 3/24
- Being the biggest 3/24
- Sasha feels shy 3/24
- Tiny garden 3/24
- Don't do it, Doug! 3/24
- Are you bored, Minimoni? 3/24
- It's spring! 3/24
- Welcome, spring! 3/24
- Is it spring?
- Beatrix and the unicorn 3/18
- Hummingbird's big trip 3/18
- Bread is love 3/18
- The Chick-O-Saurus 3/18
- The sweater : a story of community 3/18
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- How to hatch : a gosling's guide to breaking free 2/26
- Mungo on his own 2/17
- There is not usually a hole 2/17
- We all love 2/17
- The trouble with children (according to cat) 2/17
- Rock and roll 2/17
- Welcome to the nighttime train 2/13
- Bath time for the crayons 2/13
- The bear who wanted to dance 2/13
- Tic, tac, and toe 2/13
- The most wonderful gift in the world 2/13
- Spaghetti : a mouse and his treasure 2/13
- Bennett's roof 2/3
- The snow theater 1/23
- Through the telescope 1/23
- A hatful of dreams 1/23
- Our solar system! : a stellar neighborhood 1/23
- I'm trying to love farts 1/23
- Piccolo 1/23
- The night of the hedgehog 1/23
- Penguin palooza 1/23
- ARLO 1/23
- The trouble with children 1/23
- Year round 1/23
- The bestest big brother, ever 1/23
- Mama car 1/23
- This is how you know 1/23
- Sleep here, wake there
- The coziest place on the moon 12/16
- Dropbear 12/16
- All the cats 12/12
- Don't eat Eustace 12/12
- Night flight 12/12
- My dog Smudge 12/12
- Broken 12/12
- Come on out! 12/12
- Unicorn post 12/12
- Piggypine 12/12
- If I built a town 12/12
- Emmie builds something new 12/12
- A snow day for Amos McGee 12/11
- Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo 12/11
- The aliens do not want to go home 12/11
- The gift of everything 12/11
- The Bakery Dragon and the fairy cake 12/11
- One day a mayfly 12/11
- Robot's first snow 12/11
- The winding willow 12/11
- Nunu and the sea 12/11
- I'm like a tree and a tree's like me 12/11
- Moby Duck 12/11
- The boy, the troll, & the chalk 12/11
- Moon song 12/11
- A scrub in the tub
- The great dinosaur sleepover 12/11
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- My path 11/25
- I truck 11/25
- One can be 11/25
- My Abuela is a bruja 11/25
- My pollinator garden 10/27
- Cats and us 10/27
- Take me out to the ball game! 10/27
- Bear loves his home 10/27
- Help! 10/21
- Evelyn Witch gets a pet 10/21
- The big snowdown 10/21
- How to be brave like a snail 10/21
- I hate everything! 10/21
- Found you! 10/21
- The box full of wonders 10/10
- Hazel is all that 10/10
- The zoo : the inside story 10/10
- Safe at last 10/10
- The silver shadow 10/10
- We go slow 10/10
- Is it asleep? 10/10
- If you want to write a story 10/10
- If we were dogs 10/10
- The interrupted plans of Mango and Nan 10/10
- That's my truck! 10/10
- Gymnastica fantastica! 10/10
- Little rebels 10/10
- Dragons love underpants 10/3
- The riding lesson 10/3
- Nightsong 10/3
- Speak your heart 10/3
- Floor it! 10/3
- Whoa Panda! 10/3
- The found things 10/3
- Together, united 10/3
- Oh dear, look what I got! 10/3
- The monster in the lake 10/3
- Quentin Blake's fantastic journeys 10/3
- The wishing leaf 10/3
- Fluffy McWhiskers. Crunchazaur kaboom 10/3
- Clovis meets his match 10/3
- Good golden sun 10/3
- Don't lose Mr. Cuddles 10/3
- The everything trail 10/3
- Aggie and the ghost 10/3
- Leonard builds a haunted house 10/3
- Papa doesn't do anything 10/3
- The biggest dog in the book 10/3
- Tuck me in! 10/2
- Little Boo 10/2
- Goats afloat 10/2
- Time runs like a river 10/2
- The mushroom of doom! 10/2
- A fall day for bear 10/2
- The heart of winter 10/2
- Colin's castle 10/2
- Humpty's great fall 10/2
- Dawn 10/2
- The moon moved in 10/2
- Norman and the smell of adventure 10/2
- Oops! 9/22
- Whose eyes? 9/22
- Things that go 9/22
- A home like this 9/22
- Don't tickle the turkey! 9/22
- B is for birthday 9/22
- 10 dogs 9/22
- Grumpy Monkey mine! 9/22
- Let's go home, baby puppy 9/22
- Hello, Potty! 9/22
- I spy dinosaurs 9/19
- Butt or face? : super gross butts 9/19
- Five little friends 9/19
- Trapped in the tar pit 9/19
- Who's making all that noise?! 9/19
- Ready, steady, sloth! 9/19
- This is how a ball rolls 9/19
- Hello hello shapes 9/19
- Baby's very first noisy book farm 9/19
- Baby garbage truck needs repair 9/19
- Dinosaurs in trucks because hey, why not? 9/19
- A rock is born 9/19
- Chirp! chirp! I'm a chick! 9/19
- Suki Cat : farmer 9/19
- Flora and friends colors 9/19
- Baby animals 9/19
- Ray : how light works 9/19
- The ABCs of fall 9/19
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