Press 4 to listen to poem, My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson.Press 3 to listen to the story, All Through the Night: Important Jobs that Get Done at Night by Polly Faber, read by Miss Anne.Press 2 to listen to jokes about pizza, read by Miss Anne.Press 1 to listen to this menu in Spanish.Links in this list show print, audiovisual, and electronic materials in the Mount Prospect Public Library’s collection with the same title that are available for check-out. However, if you don’t want to wait, you can press # to go to the main menu. Our menu selections vary and change monthly, so we have created this go-to Web page for you to see what is playing during a specific month.Īt the end of each selection, you will automatically be redirected to the main menu. Just call 84 and follow the prompts to select the number of what you’d like to hear.
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Some items are read by your librarians, and some by other great narrators, but all have been carefully selected by library staff. Call 84 to listen to stories, jokes, songs, and more. It was during this time that she developed her love of storytelling and limited colour palettes.įollowing graduation she moved to Edinburgh, where she was inspired by the impressive architecture and buildings became a recurring theme in her work.Welcome to MPPL’s Dial-a-Story! We’re here to read to you, wherever and whenever with Dial-a-Story. She left her hometown of Yorkshire to embark on an undergraduate degree in Illustration at The Cambridge School of Art, where she stayed on to study the esteemed MA in Children’s Book Illustration. Little did she know that she would become a (real!) Illustrator for a living. Her best impression is of a tortoise eating a strawberry.Īs a child, Harriet Hobday would spend hours drawing what was around her and filling sketchbooks with imagined characters and scenes. She worked as a midwife and a sandwich maker before becoming a writer, and has also mashed potatoes for Prince Edward’s dinner. ►About the Authors: Polly Faber lives in London with her husband, sons, and two black and white cats called Alan and Babs. ► Details: Hardback | 32 pages | 30.0 x 24.0 cm Meet the people doing the important jobs that help keep the city running all through the night, ready for the next day to come. But where will she go, and who will she see along the way?Īs the night goes on, follow nurses, cleaners, delivery workers, doctors, police officers, journalists and many more. Meanwhile, her mother is putting on her coat and getting ready to go to work. In a big city, a little girl is eating her dinner, brushing her teeth and getting ready for bed. A beautifully illustrated picture book exploring the jobs that keep a city running all through the night, and make it ready for the new day.
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