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.
I found this story in an amazing collection of stories called The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas, collected and told by Maria Garcia Esperon, illustrated by Amanda Mijangos,…
Today's story is "Make meatballs Sing: the life and art of Corita Kent", written by Matthew Burgess and pictures by Kara Kramer. It tells the remarkable story of the life…
Greetings gentle readers and Welcome to 2022. I am eager to embrace the challenges and opportunities of the new year. Storytelling, the stories we tell, the stories we listen to,…
In honor of Martin Luther King's birthday I share A Place To Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation, written by Barry Wittenstein and illustrated…
Happy Winter Solstice! December 21st, 2020! Let us appreciate and celebrate the sun, the changing seasons, winter, the short days, the long nights, our friends, families, communities, and the interconnectedness…