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…
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March 4, 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.
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
The Nian Monster
The Chinese New Year is February 16th and I found this gripping, funny and heartwarming modern day retelling of the classic Chinese New Year's folk tale, The Nian Monster. Enjoy!…
February 11, 2018
Let’s Talk About Race
January 29, 2018 Sadly, Julius Lester, folklorist, writer, photographer and professor extraordinaire passed away recently. I first learned about him through his wonderfully modern retellings of the Brer Rabbit stories.…
January 29, 2018