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.
This week's stories are The Shoemaker and the Elves collected by the Brothers Grimm, and The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson. Between the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian…
Definitely check out Wendy Pfeffer's The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice. She manages to meld science, nature, myth, history and various ways that different human cultures represent and celebrate…
With the winter solstice coming up next week we have been preparing for winter, celebrating the sun and learning about what causes the changes of the seasons. The story of…
Anansi the Spider is written/adapted and illustrated by Gerald McDermott. I have found it a compelling story for young children in exploring family, cooperation,spirit animals, the moon, sky and earth,…
Earth and Me, Our Family Tree: Nature's Creatures, by J. Patrick Lewis and illustrated by Christopher Canyon, was commissioned by a group of Japanese educators and publishers to "convey global…