Frosty weather, snowy weather,When the wind blows, we all go together.Three steps back and 1,2,3. A traditional Irish rhyme, found in many collections, like Ruth Crawford Seeger’s American Folksongs for Children and recordings by the Clancy Family. 2020 has been a year of surprises, both pleasant and unpleasant. Enough about the unpleasant, let’s focus on the...
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Endless stories are perfect for any occasion: long car trips, waiting in line at the grocery store or the doctors office, standing in line at the passport office, and best of all, at bedtime! What is an Endless Story? It’s a story that has no end. Often, at the end of an endless story, we find ourselves right back at the beginning of the story. So we tell it...
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Hello Everybody and how are you? It’s almost Spring – do you feel it in the air? All 3 of our parent and child videos are now on youtube! Today, parents often plant an iphone or tablet in their child’s lap. So, it seems like the right moment to launch our videos on YouTube. In 1998, Janice Dawe, our program participant with her first child, got the idea to make the...
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Recently I found this video from December 2017. My granddaughter Harlow was exactly one and a half years old! Harlow is playing a wonderful finger play created many years ago by my neighbour, Marina Pyo, when her own children were babies and attended our story time, Lullabies & LapRhymes. When our heads are full of rhymes and songs, they can offer us...
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What I noticed on Sunday, March 24, as I listened to stories at The Toronto Reference Library, was the gift of “seeing” so much of the stories! The Storytellers were painting with words! I think it was Laura Simms who said, “The law of the storyteller is to see with their inner eye everything of which they speak!”Here’s what I saw on...
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