As we head towards St. Patrick’s Day and fanciful images of Leprechauns begin appearing in television commercials and on cocktail napkins, we might pause for…
If only teeth grew on trees, and you wanted a larger upper bicuspid, for example, you could just go to the tooth tree and pick…
That’s Roger Miller, playing the Dukes-of-Hazard-style minstrel Allan a Dale, with one of the songs from the 1973 cartoon version of Robin Hood.
If you thought saints couldn’t be funny, think again, for here comes Nasrudin, the witty and wise visionary holy man from Sufi culture, a branch…
It’s National Grandparents Day this Sunday, and the well-known storyteller, Jane Yolen, a grandparent herself, has offered a present specifically for grandsons, in her new…
Switzerland is home to a rich tradition of children’s literature. The Swiss, in fact, invented the annual, a gift of engravings and verses that were…
That’s Winton Marsalis with the opening from the story, “The Fiddler and the the Dancin’ Witch,” about a little boy named Simeon who’d rather play his father’s magic fiddle than almost anything else.
One of the oldest and most influential Italian folk tales is the legend of Cupid and Psyche, as told by the Roman philosopher, Lucius Apuleius…
In today’s world, where children have so many events organized for them, where the activities of childhood begin to mountain into a stack of soccer…
That’s Deborah Henson-Conant, the composer and author, reading the opening from her musical sequel to “The Frog Prince” — just in time for Jacob Grimm’s birthday tomorrow.