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.
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…
The story of the week is The Woman Who Outshone the Sun, from a poem by Alexandro Cruz Martinez and pictures by Fernando Olivera. Martinez was a Zapotec Indian poet…
The Story of the Week is The White Snake, one of the many folk tales collected by the brothers Grimm. The White Snake tells the story of a servant whose…
This week's story is I Can Do Hard Things: Mindful Affirmations For Kids, by Gabi Garcia and illustrated by Charity Russell. As the new school year starts I want all my…