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Drawing Lessons for Kids with Mo Willems
Mar 27th, 2020
In the time of social distancing due to COVID-19, Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence, Mo Willems, “explore[s] ways of writing and making” despite being stuck at home. He also answers children’s… Read More
When ‘Here’ Is Home, But ‘Here’ Keeps Changing — A Family Flees In ‘Story Boat’
Mar 20th, 2020
When illustrator Rashin Kheiriyeh first read the manuscript of Story Boat, she recognized the children in it immediately. Kheiriyeh’s family fled Iran after war broke out in 1980 — she remembers what… Read More
Kids Around The World Are Reading NPR’s Coronavirus Comic
Mar 17th, 2020
How do you explain coronavirus to kids? Last week, NPR published a comic, written by Malaka Gharib, geared to children about the newly discovered virus. NPR also recently published the comic in Chinese. Since… Read More
Lotte Reiniger: Animation Before Disney
Mar 12th, 2020
Remembering Lotte Reiniger (1899 – 1981), who created the first feature-length animation, years before Disney.
‘The Undefeated’ Wins Caldecott, And ‘New Kid’ Picks Up Newbery
Feb 24th, 2020
It is a universally acknowledged truth that a curious reader in want of a good book needs only direct their footsteps (and questions) to the nearest librarian. Librarians, after all,… Read More