Free with Museum Admission
Ages 3–7

This week at Sunday Story Time, we’re celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.! We will talk about love, compassion, and community as we read We March.  Afterwards, kids will create a dove paper airplane with a special message so they can share words of love and hope from MLK.

Free with Museum Admission
Ages 3–7

What would we do in New York City without the subway system?!  It connects us to our jobs, families, and friends.  It gives us time to rest, read and reflect. This week at Sunday Story Time, we’re reading Subway and exploring how one family turns the subway train into an adventure.  Following the story, we will create our own miniature subway trains!

Subway written and illustrated by Christoph Niemann, 2010

Support for Sunday Story Time provided by Macy’s

Free with Museum Admission
Ages 3–7

This week at Sunday Story Time, we’re joined by author Rhoda Knight-Kalt for a special reading of her book Tigers and Tea with Toppy. This adorable book tells the story of Rhoda spending time with her beloved grandfather, Toppy, all around New York City. Together they visit the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park Zoo, and even have tea at the Plaza Hotel! A book signing will follow at the NYHistory Store.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Free with Museum Admission
Ages 3-7

We have had a blast in 2018, but it is time to welcome a new year!  Join us during Sunday Story Time to celebrate 2019 with P. Bear and all his fancy friends. After reading P. Bear’s New Year’s Party, we will have a little party of our own!  And as a craft we will create the appropriate New Year’s Eve attire so we are sure to look as dapper as P. Bear and his friends

Support for Sunday Story Time provided by Macy’s

Free with Museum Admission
Ages 3-7

Whether it is hearing a symphony or watching a ballet, performing arts can entertain us, enlighten us and even inspire us.  Ballerina Anna Pavlova was inspired to become a dancer while watching a ballet when she was just a girl.  When she saw the first dancers take stage, she felt as though she was entering a fairyland!  After reading about Anna in Swan, we will create wings as an art craft so we know how to fly once we arrive in Anna’s fairyland.

Support for Sunday Story Time provided by Macy’s

Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for ages 9-12

Join us and author Cynthia DeFelice via Skype to discuss her novel about a boy who explores a shocking experimental cure for a disease that has ravaged his town in 1849. After the discussion, explore disease and medicine before germ theory.

This February, join us at the Museum as we welcome back celebrated author Tonya Bolden to discuss her book Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl. Ask questions about her research and writing and discuss topics throughout the story, then afterwards Bolden will join us on a special guided group tour of our exhibition Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow.

Free with Museum Admission

This week at Sunday Story Time, join us for our very special puppet show singalong! We’ll sing some of your favorite songs, including “Baby Shark,” “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,” and “Family Fingers.” Afterwards, we’ll each create our own puppet! 

Generous support from Shelley and Tommy Mulitz
Support for Sunday Story Time provided by Macy's

Free with Museum Admission
Ages 3–7

This week at Sunday Story Time, we’re joined by author Deborah Blumenthal for a very special reading of her book Polka Dot Parade: A Book about Bill Cunningham! This beautifully rendered picture book tells the story of iconic fashion photographer Bill Cunningham and inspires old and young audiences alike to embrace their creativity. The reading will be followed by a book signing.

Free with Museum Admission
Ages 3–7

Have you ever visited a department store, fallen in love with an adorable teddy bear, and then felt he was meant to be yours? This week at Little New-Yorkers we will read Corduroy and learn how this little bear found someone to love him. Corduroy lived in a huge department store like Macy’s, which open opened around this time of year 160 years ago! As a craft, we will create Corduroy bears to take home to make our own.

Corduroy written by Don Freeman, 1968