Congratulations to the Story Squad storytellers for competing successfully for performance slots in the upcoming 2015 Durham County Library Storytelling Festival. Our tellers took all four available slots with their storytelling prowess. We’re immensely proud of them all! Please join us and the featured storytellers at the 2015 Celebration of Storytelling, Saturday, March 21st, from 10:00am until 2:00pm in the Main Library at 300 N. Roxboro St. in Durham. It’s free and open to the public.

I just read this quote from an interview with Ginny Moore Kruse about her experience on the Charlotte Zolotow award committee (for the best picture book text).  She says: “Experience with language in a wide range of ways makes a huge difference for all babies and preschoolers’ facility with spoken language and with their emergent literacy. To develop to their greatest potential, young children must have opportunities to hear a variety of language patterns and words put together in a variety of ways.”  I wonder if she was thinking about Story Squad when she said this????

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