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Children’s Book Resources During Covid19 and Beyond
…reading! Story Time with Kathy Stinson — 26:32 A reading of Red Is Best and The Dog Who Wanted to Fly, an event live streamed for Northern Ontario Libraries during…
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“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 4
…or not you have the time or skills that the CNIB looks for, or the inclination to do this kind of volunteer work, if you’re a writer, reading aloud is…
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“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 13
…school as a teenager didn’t spoil it for me. Good poetry, like all the poems I’ve read today, begs to be read aloud. And so does good prose. Luckily for…
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Books and Violins and Music in General
…Like one man in his eighties who, after reading the book, recounted to me how music became such an important part of his life, rather late in his life, after…
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“Green 15”
Sometimes when it was my husband’s turn to drive this summer, I read aloud from William Trevor’s Selected Stories to help pass the miles. We often marveled at how compelling…
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Reading Aloud
I love reading aloud to any willing audience. This week is giving me lots of chances to do so. Reading Christmas-y excerpts from Brian Doyle’s Angel Square to my Book…
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“When I’m Sixty Four”
…CNIB, and an avid member of a book group. (No surprise there really. My favourite part of being a teacher was reading aloud to my students, and I’ve always been…
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September Weekends
…offered such a fine book and I know I’m going to enjoy in the months ahead reading it aloud at the CNIB Recording Studio. Sunday evening — Followers of my…
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5 Highlights of the 2018 IBBY Congress
…comment after reading about refugees, “This could happen to anyone.” International understanding through children’s books. Dr. Leila (Roya) Maktabi Fard’s keynote, “Two women, two continents, one aspiration” — in which…
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