Storytime For A Just And Joyful World
A parent-led storytime and playdate bringing local families together through children’s books that celebrate diversity, acceptance, and empathy, with music, movement, and open Mega Blok play. Ages 0-5.
Suggested donation: $5–$25 (or any amount meaningful to you) to support an emergency fund to help raise money for members of our community that are in crisis. Link to donate.
The cover image comes from one of the books we will be reading: You Matter by Christian Robinson.
Here’s our lineup for April 19th:
🎶 Music and movement by Briana Williams
📚You Matter by Christian Robinson
In this full, bright, and beautiful picture book, many different perspectives around the world are deftly and empathetically explored—from a pair of bird-watchers to the pigeons they’re feeding. Young readers will be drawn into the luminous illustrations inviting them to engage with the world in a new way and see how everyone is connected, and that everyone matters.
📚We Share This Neighborhood: A Community Book by Dan Saks
This formative board book is an appreciation of neighborhood communities and the many ways in which they help develop empathy, compassion, and collective responsibility. Through a handful of specific yet universal scenarios, set in four different kinds of communities (suburban, urban, rural, and manufactured home), young readers will understand what it means to be a part of a neighborhood community and celebrate how to share with and care for one another.
📚Together by Mona Damluji
In Together, social justice kids book pioneer Innosanto Nagara teams up with poet and activist Mona Damluji for a stunningly tender and pitch-perfect visual feast that juxtaposes individual action with the power of people acting together. Each of the ten free-verse couplets in the poem is spread across four pages of imagery, to make a unique and different kind of board book for young kids to discover with their families.