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!…
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 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!…
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.…
This is a great story by Ruth Krauss who wrote many wonderful children's books including The Carrot Seed and Open House for Butterflies. https://youtu.be/yFaVEb9Fkb4
This website is mostly for grown ups but on this page you will find only stories I tell, books I read, and songs that I sing to my students, my…