I have very early memories of both reading, and watching, Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson. The concept that a story can quite literally pour out of the end of a child’s drawing tool is fascinating to me – but I’m even more drawn to the “errors” in Harold’s drawing that cause the…
Category: (story)time
(story)time: Along a Long Road by Frank Viva
Along a Long Road is one of those titles that is just so fun to say, over and over again. It’s a very wide book, so when you open to the first page you have a seaside townscape that stretches across your lap and into your kids’ laps a bit. This is a fun book…
(story)time: Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett, Illustrated by Jon Klassen
Here is where we sing our song of how much we love Jon Klassen. We do. Sing the song. Every time we read this book. The first time we read this book together – the girls and I – I shut the book at the end and exclaimed “I love Jon Klassen.” We read the…
