The People Shall Continue
The People Shall Continue is Simon Ortiz's masterful history of Native American people for children. Required reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5gtzCv-NFg
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July 10, 2019
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 Steadfast Tin Soldier
The Steadfast Tin Soldier, written by Hans Christian Anderson, is a remarkable story of disability, adventure, evil, determination, and love. It is a story that never fails to set…
June 20, 2019
The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story
This week's story is The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story retold by Joseph Bruchac, pictures by Anna Vojtech. Originally Cherokee Indians were an Indian nation living in the area of…
June 11, 2019
Peter Rabbit
The story of the week is Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. I like how unnerving this recognized classic can be to the contemporary adult reader. Children inevitably find it compelling…
May 22, 2019
The Woman Who Outshone the Sun
The story of the week is The Woman Who Outshone the Sun, adapted from a poem by Alejandro Cruz Martinez, a Zapotec poet who collected many folktales from the Zapotec…
May 16, 2019
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