I read some of my favorite stories and non-fiction children’s books and share stories of my own. Storytelling is a fundamental way of sharing our sense of the world and expressing our place in it. Stories frame everything we do in the world, what we know and don’t know, and our understandings of the impossible and possible. Stories encircle and open up the world.
Jan Brett is a beloved children's author who has written many classic Christmas stories, retellings of fairytales, and original stories drawn from her own delightful imagination. The Mitten is a…
As we cross the threshold of 2025 into 2026 I thought it might be wise to kick off the new year by sharing Robert Macfarlane's gorgeous exhortation and call to…
https://youtu.be/1ZycE-GefhM Love Your Colors tells the tale of how some elves recover their colors after a witch turns them invisible with a curse. Nicole Elizabeth wrote this amazing story and created…
The Happy Prince is a fairytale written by Oscar Wilde and if you haven't heard it I would give it a listen. It shares certain qualities with those found in…
Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun: A Cherokee Story tells the tale of how the animals that lived on the dark half of the earth managed to bring a piece of…