Ken Frawley

Library Summer Reading Themes 2022 – New shows each year featuring fun interactive songs and stories told with large puppets that foster a love for coming to the library and reading lots of books.

Wonderful World of Stories and Songs – Audiences will travel the world to places like Asia, Europe, So. America, America, and Africa and experience wonderful tales full of humor, message, and depiction of mankind’s universal connections through their stories. Songs are all hundreds of years old and feature lots of audience engagement and interaction.

Animal Tales and Musical Scales – Every song and story feature animal themes. Songs include new and traditional animal songs that will have audiences singing-along to as well as actively engaged in a variety of actions.  Stories feature large animal puppets that help tell international animal tales in a fun, ventriloquist style presentation.

Magical Tales and Musical Scales –Every story told in this program features some form of magical experience from diamonds appearing from bubbles to very special fruit juice disappearing right before your eyes.  The songs are highly engaging with children moving along, singing along, and creating their own verses.

Preschool Fun Show –Fun age appropriate interactive new and traditional preschool songs with stories featuring large puppets to bring them alive for this age group.

The Halloween Party a fun, not scary, Halloween show for children’s and family audiences featuring Halloween songs that they get to scream along to, move along to and sing along to. Stories are all Halloween themed from a “Jump” story – “Debra’s Halloween” to a Puppet tale – “The Great White Bear Ghost of Halloween” featuring a large white ghostly Bear puppet.

Patrick’s Day Show – a fun Irish Heritage show with traditional Irish songs like “Molly Malone” and “Hi Ho the Rattlin’ Bog” along with Irish stories about how St. Patrick removed the snakes from Ireland to “A Field of Buttercups” where audiences learn all about leprechauns.

Christmas Hanukkah Holiday Show – This show features fun new and tradition Christmas songs from “Jingle Bells” to “Feliz Navidad” along with stories about how Santa chose the Reindeer and Brehr Gramma’s Christmas Pies.

Play Along Movement Songs for Kids and Families – a show for preschool, elementary ages, and complete family audiences featuring wonderfully interactive, on and off stage, songs for audiences to sing along to, move along to, add special effects to and in come cases sign along to using American Sign Language, ASL.

We Play Along American Sign Language Music Show –Interactive songs that all feature American Sign Language, ASL.  Each song is instructed prior to singing and signing and all songs are easy to learn, participate with, and be successful and learning some American Sign Language vocabulary. Can be adapted for preschool, elementary and all ages family audiences.