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.
Preaching to the Chickens: the story of the young John Lewis, written by Jabari Asim, illustrated by E.B. Lewis Enjoy this amazing "origin story" about the extraordinary civil rights leader…
https://youtu.be/mHLqXzf_AvU An Earth Day Story, read atop of Hobbamock's jaw in Sleeping Giant State Park, by Charlie Malone, "On the Day You Were Born" by Debra Fraser, wraps the child's…
I am very excited to share this beautiful version of The Way of the Bodhissatva, adapted by Dominique Townsend especially for children and their families, and illustrated by Tenzin Norbu.…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4lOUk85e30&t=16s Listen is written by Holly M. McGhee and illustrated by Pascal Lemaitre. The story exhorts us to listen with all our hearts and to do everything we do with…
A Tree is Nice, by Janice May Udry and illustrated by Marc Simont is a beautiful homily to the sacred power of trees told in a very down to earth…