Waiting is not Easy
Mo Willems's Gerald and Piggie books are legendary for their humor, moral wisdom, and tender, madcap zaniness. One of my favorites is Waiting is Hard, as Piggy has a surprise…
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January 31, 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.
Martin’s Big Words
This week's story is Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport and illustrated by Bryan Collier. The story starts out in the segregated South with a young Martin Luther King confronted…
January 22, 2019
Dem Bones
The story of the week is Dem Bones by Bob Barner which juxtaposes short, straightforward expositions of different parts of the human skeleton with the lyrics to the African American…
January 15, 2019
Thanks to the Animals
This week's story is Thanks to the Animals told (written) by Allen Sockabasin a Passamaquoddy storyteller. The story is part of a concerted effort of mine to share many different…
January 8, 2019
An Algonquian Year: The Year According to the Full Moon
An Algonquian Year: The Year According to the Full Moon, written by Michael McCurdy and read by Charlie Malone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ldv0yAPrpk
January 2, 2019
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