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.
Jim Arnosky is a master naturalist who has devoted his life to sharing his knowledge, joy, delight and fierce protectiveness of the natural world with children. His entire oeuvre is…
I have the day off today because it is "Christopher Columbus Day." I would prefer, like many other people, that we as a society rename this holiday, Indigenous Peoples Day.…
The story of the week, The Antlered Ship, comes by way of my daughter Sylvia and her son Jackson. Written by Dashka Slater and illustrated by The Fan Brothers it…
This deep story about the fate of a turtle carving made by someone from the Delaware tribe that had been lost in the mists of history and then recovered, refurbished…