When the Root Children Wake Up
This week I read a retelling of the German story Etwas von den Wurtzelkindern translated as When the Root Children. Be sure to seek out the original for some amazing…
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March 20, 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.
EarthDance
Written by Joanne Ryder and illustrated by Norman Gorbaty, Earthdance encourages us to identify with the Earth, to leet our bodies intermingle with the body of the earth in an…
March 13, 2018
Stone Soup
This week I read one of my all time favorites, Stone Soup, as retold and illustrated by Jon J Muth. He sets the story in China and uses the Buddhist…
March 4, 2018
The Lion and the Mouse
This week I read Jerry Pinkney's, The Lion and the Mouse. Read all his renderings of the Aesop's Fables including the Tortoise and the Hare, and The Grasshopper and the…
February 25, 2018
Frederick
Leo Lionni is a remarkable storyteller whose deceptively simple collages are surprisingly expressive. A prolific writer and illustrator, he has over 94 books to his name. Some of my favorites…
February 19, 2018