The funny line drawings that we today refer to as cartoons have been with us for probably as long as people have drawn on the…
Mrs. Robinson was my sixth grade teacher. She was a tall, raw-boned woman, who called herself not Martha Robinson–in fact, I didn’t know her first…
Now I think all of us intellectually understand the need to set land aside for when we’re gone. But there’s a long term problem even…
Shelley Fraser Mickle thinks that any month is a good month to laugh.
This recording is part of a collection of poems called Poetry Speaks to Children.
As a child I marked, with special reverence, the clockwork of spring flowers. The bulbs and blooms of spring in New England were reliable timepieces…
That’s the familiar theme from Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker,” dancing to the sound of the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra on a CD called The Golden Dreydl.
For Shelley Fraser Mickle, the holidays are not only a time for celebration, but also for waiting.
This is National Cookie Cutter Week, reminding me that the winter holiday season is fast approaching. It just doesn’t feel like the holidays until I’ve…
While it’s Geography Awareness Week, we wanted to mention some books that bring the subject of geography alive in unusual ways for young readers. Geography…