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.
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…
I found this story in an amazing collection of stories called The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas, collected and told by Maria Garcia Esperon, illustrated by Amanda Mijangos,…
Today's story is "Make meatballs Sing: the life and art of Corita Kent", written by Matthew Burgess and pictures by Kara Kramer. It tells the remarkable story of the life…