Watch this totally ghoul #readaloud by KidTimeStoryTime: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f81...

You can get signed copies from Once Upon A Time #bookstore: www.shoponceuponatime.com/a...

📚 Art by Bonnie Lui, published by Page Street Kids.

@ignova ✨FOLLOW-UP: Microsoft Edge has Read Aloud built right into it, which adds further voices *and* shows each word as it reads. Useful for those with reading difficulties who might need extra help.

Convert your document to HTML, open in Edge (desktop or mobile, any OS), and choose Read Aloud from the contextual menu.

#Accessibility #ReadAloud

I'm a huge fan of #KidTimeStoryTime and StoryTeller's readalouds on #YouTube. Well, guess what! Today, they posted a faboolous and hilarious reading of my picture book #SoNotGhoul!

This underworldly tale about Mimi, a Chinese American ghost in bicultural limbo, is brought to life by Chinese-style rituals, Mandarin puns, and—of course—ghost fashion.

(Psst…please buy!) 👻 ❤️

From #PageStreetKids, art by Bonnie Lui.

#AAPIHeritageMonth #AsianAmerican #PictureBooks #KidLit #ReadAloud #StoryTime

I'm celebrating World Read Aloud Day by donating 3 school visits to #middleschools in #Sweden, #Wisconsin and #Illinois! I'll be reading from my book Friend Me and my not-at-all-unsettling robotic cat, FRED, will tag along.

(Want to know more about my virtual school visits? ➡️) https://www.sheilamaverbuch.com/for-teachers/

#SchoolVisits #authorVisit #ReadAloud #AuthorLife #AuthorsOfMastodon #MiddleGrade #thriller #WorldReadAloudDay #FriendMe #Scholastic #SheilaMAverbuch #books #teachers #librarians #WRAD

Pulled out one of the kid’s favorite “baby books” last night — David Shannon’s No, David! (His Oh, David! is another favorite of ours.) The kid is endlessly entertained by the illustrations of David’s hijinks, and by hearing me channel the mother’s frustration/annoyance/panic/exhaustion. (It’s not hard!) I love the simple, straightforward depictions of a parent-child relationship that’s challenging but always ultimately full of love.

#KidLit #PictureBooks #ReadAloud #ReadWithYourKids #MomLife

Not ready to give up the holidays just yet? Keep the celebration going with "My Brother Santa: Great Granddaddy's Christmas Storytelling Magic"

https://www.amazon.com/Brother-Santa-Granddaddys-Christmas-Storytelling/dp/B0BQXW8KZV

The new Classic Children's Book

A book for the Biracial Kid who loves their Black Family!

A book for the kid who loves talking to their #Grandparents and great grandparents!

A book that centers #BlackSanta!

#BlackMastodon
#BlackFedi
#StoriesForFamilies
#BooksForKids
#KidsRead
#ReadAloud
#ReadTogether

#WeNeedDiverseBooks

Yesterday Ben Franklin came up at the dinner table, so I broke out an old favorite as one of our bedtime books — Now & Ben, by Gene Barretta. Got a prompt “Oh yay, I LOVE this book!” when the kid saw it. Great collection of tidbits about history and science/tech — interesting to a 4yo, still inspiring deeper thought at 7. Absolutely adorable illustrations.

I need to pick up Barretta’s book about Leonardo da Vinci...

#KidLit #KidLitRecs #PictureBooks #KidsNonFiction #ReadAloud #ReadWithYourKids

#Teachers, check this wonderful read-aloud of the new picture book from #KwameAlexander and debut #kidlit illustrator #DareCoulter: AN AMERICAN STORY. From #JudyBlume's own #bookstore in Key West! Here's hoping this book leads to open, fearless classroom discussions on this central part of the American story -- slavery & Black resilience in the face of it.
➡️ https://fb.watch/hRg3LcfSMv/

#slavery #KwameAlexander #DareCoulter #pictureBooks @histodons #history #BlackMastodon #readAloud

Have you heard of the amazing 🌟Reading With Your Kids🌟 Podcast? It's really cool and I'm so chuffed to be featured on it!

Check this out: https://readingwithyourkids.com/

It was an absolute pleasure to chat with Jed Doherty about Mending the Moon, my writing inspiration/process & my great uncle Roald Dahl.

#mendingthemoon #picturebooks #kidlit #readaloud #roalddahl #childrensbooks #picturebook #kidlit #kidsbooks #readtokids #picturebookoftheday #folktales #readtogether #readwithyourkids #readtogether

Inside Out and Back Again was also my first attempt at reading a verse novel out loud. I was trepidatious, but it came much more easily than I expected, and I realized that the flow was reminding me of many of the picture books we’ve read...lots of which turn out to be written in verse without my ever even noticing, because the flow is marked by page breaks rather than line breaks. So I have much more experience reading verse aloud than I realized! #KidLit #ReadAloud #OwnVoices (2/2)

The last book I read to my kid before chest congestion mostly shut down read-alouds last week was Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again. It’s a beautiful book, heartbreaking but hopeful. The story was an eye-opening perspective for me on Vietnamese refugee experience in the US, as well as a reminder for the privileged among us of how our acts of kindness (or cruelty) can shape lives. Great way to share some history and an important message with my kid. #KidLit #ReadAloud #OwnVoices (1/2)

Is there a community here of #ChildrensLibrarians, booksellers, teachers, and/or parents sharing #KidLit / #ChildrensBooks recommendations and reviews? I’ve found some great hashtags populated by content creators posting about their own work, but I’d love to hear perspectives from people who work directly with kids about the books you’re seeing them connect with! Especially interested in #OwnVoices, #MiddleGrades, #GraphicNovels, #ReadAloud... Are my people out there?

trying to help someone out so posting this here as I saw it on twitter. it is a set of scripts he wrote for JFW. This is from Drew Webber, and I did get his permission to post this over here for him.
Do you find yourself without a Braille Display? With the need to read outloud? Use the all new, #ReadAloud JAWS Scripts! http://drewsound.com/2022/12/20/do-you-find-yourself-without-a-braille-display-with-the-need-to-read-outloud-use-the-all-new-readaloud-jaws-scripts/

For all #Android #Firefox users, the nightly version recently enabled some new #Addons. #FirefoxRelay, #Tampermonkey, #ReadAloud, #AdNauseam, and #ClearURLs.

More info at https://www.ghacks.net/2022/12/19/firefox-for-android-nightly-adds-support-for-5-more-extensions/

#FirefoxAddons, #FirefoxAddon, #FirefoxExtensions, #FirefoxExtension, #FirefoxForAndroid, #FirefoxOnAndroid, #AndroidFirefox, #Fenix, #Mozilla.

Do you need #gifts for #kids 3 to 6 yo? Please consider giving my picture book about inclusion: #WholeWhale!

100 animals try to squeeze into the pages of a book—but what about the 🐳?

Kids will love the foldout pages revealing the animals' creative solution.

:youtube: #Readaloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSMWYhkQuO0

🎁 My Bookshop affiliate link: http://bit.ly/whole-whale-bookshop

Art by #NellekeVerhoeff, published by #BarefootBooks.

#Gift #ChildrensBooks #KidLit #Counting #STEM #Rhyme #100Days #inclusion #Promo

Wow. Have you ever tried the #ReadAloud feature in @MicrosoftEdge browser? I'm not usually a Microsoft person, but this feature is amazing to listen to academic papers. ❤️ @AcademicChatter @Momademia

Wow. Have you ever tried the #ReadAloud feature in @MicrosoftEdge browser? I'm not usually a Microsoft person, but this feature is amazing to listen to academic papers. ❤️ @AcademicChatter @Momademia

Hooray! ⭐ MENDING THE MOON⭐ is now out in the UK!!

https://www.waterstones.com/book/mending-the-moon/emma-pearl/sara-ugolotti/9781645675600

#kidlit #picturebooks #christmasgiftideas #christmasgift #xmas #readaloud #kidlitart

It felt terrific to go to @UncutPoets in Exeter again last night. For me, it was like no time had passed.

I decided to read the last-thing-I-wrote, before my long hiatus. The commemorative poem for the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival 10th anniversary. Can’t believe I hadn’t read it in public before - it’s _meant_ to be spoken aloud.

#poetry #poetryCommunity #readAloud #SpokenWord

Listen here:
https://soundcloud.com/gj-davies/stratusstrata?si=ccd6fa9b50db4470b736a66348b65895&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

For those raising littles, we enjoyed reading this book together:

#Keepunumuk : Weeâchumun’s #Thanksgiving Story by Danielle Greendeer, Anthony Perry, and Alexis Bunten, which offers a version of the Thanksgiving story from the perspective of the Mashpee #Wampanoag tribe.
#indigenous #nativeamerican #firstpeople #parenting #childrensbooks #readaloud #colonization
https://youtu.be/r4kxFJFj6BQ