KidsPlay Market Square

Every Friday

MARKET SQUARE - Downtown Pittsburgh

May 23 - August 1 (except July 4)

10:30 - 11:30 am

Suggested Reading Titles

May 23

Firetrucks Going so Fast!

A visit from City of Pittsburgh Fire Department

Firefighters by Peter Sis

Fire Engine Man by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha

Fire Engine by Anne Rockwell

Alphabet Rescue by Audrey Wood, illustrated by Bruce Wood

May 30

So Dirty!

with Bill Crean from City of Pittsburgh Department of Public Works

(Rumor has it that he may bring a real live smelly garbage truck)

I Stink; I'm Dirty by Kate Mcmullan and Jim Mcmullan

Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham

Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha, illustrated by Dan Yaccarino

June 6

Build It NOW!

Meet a real carpenter.

I Love Tools! by Philemon Sturges; iluustrated by Shari Halpern

Alphabet Under Construction by Denise Fleming

Easy Street by Rita Gray, illustrated by Mary Bono

Tip Tip Dig Dig by Emma Garcia

B is for Bulldozer by June Sobel, illustrated by Melissa Iwai

June 13

Just Clowning Around

June 20

Hats off to You!

Flossie's Hats by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

Guest: John Burnett (KDKA)

Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

A Hat for Minerva Louise by Janet Morgan Stoeke

Jennie’s Hat by Ezra Jack Keats

The Hat by Jan Brett

June 27

Urban Country

City Mouse, Country Mouse - An Aesop Fable

Night City by Monica Wellington

The Neighborhood Mother Goose by Nina Crews

Round Trip by Ann Jonas

Cowboy Sam by Kitty Griffin

July 4 - NO PROGRAM (but you can still read!)

Happy Fourth of July

Trains of States by Peter Sis

So You Want to be President by David Small

Duck for President by Doreen Cronin; illustratedby Betsy Lewin

Picnic by Emily Arnold McCully

July 11

Bags to Books

Make you own book

Hot City by Barbara Joosse, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

Book! Book! Book! by Deborah Bruss, illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke

Beverly Billingsley Borrows a Book by Alexander Stadler

Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn, illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw

Fix-It by David McPhail

Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies by Carolyn Crimi, illustrated by John Manders

Wolves by Emily Gravett

July 18

Speedy Delivery

Write, address and mail a letter.

Curious George Gets a Medal by H.A. Rey

Dear Annie by Judith Caseley

Dear Mr. Blueberry by Simon James

Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell

Letter to Amy by Ezra Jack Keats

July 25

Be Green!

Plant and decorate pots

Up, Down, and Around by Katherine Ayres; illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott

Guests: Katherine Ayres and KDKA's Dave Crawley

Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert

The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss, illustrated by Crockett Johnson

Flower Garden by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt

Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! By Candace Fleming, illustrated by G. Brian Karas

August 1

Imagine This!

Chalk art is so much fun.

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

David’s Drawings by Cathryn Falwell

Not a Box by Antoinette Portis

Dragon Dancing by Carole Lexa Schaefer, illustrated by Pierr Morgan

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw

You Are Here by Nina Crews