The Runaway Bunny
Margaret Wise Brown's classic story of a mother's willingness to go to any lengths to care for her child communicates a profound sense of love, caring, and kindness. This story…
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April 17, 2018
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.
Composting Fever
This week's stories are both about composting. Oftentimes we see the discontinuities between human beings and the natural world. But if we look at how the natural world recycles dead…
April 9, 2018
Water is Water
I love this romp through the water cycle, the different forms that water takes, and the different things water does and what we do with water! Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzZLoSTtYGk
April 2, 2018
Let the Children March
Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robertson https://monicaclark-robinson.com/about-me/, illustrations by Frank Morrison https://morrisongraphics.com/, chronicles the role of children in the Civil Rights struggles in the 1960s. This powerful children's picture…
March 25, 2018
All in A Day
All in a Day , written by Cynthia Rylant and illustrated by Nikki McClure, with a simple, beautiful text and evocative, expressive illustrations gives us a sense of the expansive,…
March 25, 2018