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.
Anansi the Spider is written/adapted and illustrated by Gerald McDermott. I have found it a compelling story for young children in exploring family, cooperation,spirit animals, the moon, sky and earth,…
Earth and Me, Our Family Tree: Nature's Creatures, by J. Patrick Lewis and illustrated by Christopher Canyon, was commissioned by a group of Japanese educators and publishers to "convey global…
This week's story, Giving Thanks, written by Jonathan London and paintings by Gregory Manchess,follows a father and son through a day outdoors and focuses on the father's practice of giving…
This week's "story" is a short section from Thich Nhat Hanh's book "A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles." I plan on writing a more substantive piece on meditating…
The story of the week is A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History by Lynne Cherry. This exquisitely rendered depiction of the history of the Nashua River flows from when…