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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photo credit: Carol Ashton The TD StoryJam Family Storytelling Day starts with Mariella, Carol and me! Join us on Sunday, March 24, at The Toronto Reference Library, for The Teddy Bear Picnic 11:00 – 12:00! Don’t forget to bring your Bears! Here’s the schedule:...
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From the very first Toronto Festival of Storytelling on April 1, 1979, I was hooked on storytelling. It was April Fools’ Day. David and I attended the very first festival at a church on Avenue Rd. with our 2 year old daughter, Anna. Erika was there, too, but had an insider’s perspective, being born the following July. It might be my favorite...
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