August, 2020 Sion, an excellent and well-respected fortune-teller, lives in a kingdom just along the Great Wall of China. Everyone went...

I love how food brings people together, often accompanied by laughter, stories, love, friendship, camaraderie and sharing. I love when ...

Written by: Asha Nehemiah Illustrated by:Chetan Sharma Published by : Duckbill/Penguinsters So let me say right off the bat, that there...

August, 2019 Over the years of storytelling and reading-aloud, there is always this one thing that I notice have children crinkling up...

28 July, 2019 When I first planned to post a review of The Great Kapok Tree’ by Lynne Cherry, I didn’t know that it was World Nature...

“I've always wanted to be a Star Hunter. But I don't want to be the kind that looks for old stars that have already been burning for...

I started my class by reading the first chapter of a book. I didn’t tell my students the title or the author. I just read aloud the...

AUTHOR: Margot Theis Raven ILLUSTRATOR: Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen Was I glad to be hiding behind the ‘share screen’ option during my...

Don't you just love when the same book lends itself so beautifully to different age groups? I never marvel at the magic spun in the pages...

The joy of spring cleaning. ....notes from the first storytelling workshop I attended. 24 August, 2002 with the most wonderful...

I have a self imposed rule of only reading aloud books or orally narrating stories that I connect with. Yet every once in a while, I come...

September 2020 The last online library sessions of the term this week, and I wanted to leave my students thinking about books, reading...

Gagan is a happy, gentle little boy who loves observing ants, colouring, collecting stamps and other comparably gentle pursuits, with his...

14 NOVEMBER, 2019 A wish for all the children in my life, this Children’s Day…may books inspire you: To care… To be brave… Enough… To...

October, 2020 This term I planned a unit on books about people who created different things. I do not want to use the word inventor or...

So, I was ‘chopping onions’….chopping onions, I tell you!! The last few pages were blurry. I had to stop, go wash my face and come back...

This article first appeared on The Bookwallis, a Facebook page I write on with 2 other educators, we covered themes by 'Voicing the...

February, 2018 If an illustrator signs a copy of his book for my students at school, a bias is warranted isn't it? So at the outset, let...