Courage Book Review – “I will stir up the waters of the old days and shape the long-ago then into now.”Today’s offering is a great retelling of Beowulf. This version is subtitled, A Hero’s Tale Retold, and was written and illustrated by James Rumford. What…
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The Path to Courage: Irena Gutowa’s StoryComing up soon is Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, so my post is dedicated to one of my own heroes, rescuer Irene Gut Opdyke. About…
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Fenrir: Big, Bad WolfA few weeks ago I wrote about trickster tales, and the importance of reclaiming intellectual courage from the stigma of trickery. The tradition of the…
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Courage Book Review – Speaking of CourageToday we offer some books you might share with your kids. First, because Lion’s Whiskers is about courage, we have a simple, sweet and heart-felt…
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What’s the Monster Under Your Bed?Lion’s Whiskers asks: What’s the monster under your bed? Our children are not the only ones who fear monsters lurking under the bed, in the…
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The Briar Patch“What are your favorite stories?” I ask my daughter. Without hesitation the answer always comes back, “Anansi stories.” Anansi the Spider is a trickster in…
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Relativity“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”…
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5-Minute Courage Workout: Playing with FireWhy a 5-Minute Courage Workout on Playing with Fire? Cavemen and women needed it to survive: our kids need to know about fire so they…
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Guest Post Today on www.yourwildchild.comI’ve written a guest post for a wonderful blog written by Melynda Coble Harrison, to inspire parents to get outside with their kids and discover…
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Telling Our StoriesLong before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early…
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