Ma and Pa and Pickles and Penny Pig are going on a picnic. Here comes Ma with the picnic basket. Please hurry up, Ma. What’s the Story? The Pig family is going to the beach to have their picnic so they get in their car and head out. Along the way they encounter …
“Everybody has a heart. Sometimes you gotta work hard to find it.” What’s the Story? Lost and alone in the woods, Otto meets three mysterious sisters. What follows is a decades-long quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a magical harmonica. Years later, Jewish Friedrich must save his father in Nazi …
“I feel sorry for all children who don’t live in Noisy Village” What’s the Story? Astrid Lindgren may be best known for Pippi Longstocking, but my favorite story by the celebrated Swedish author is The Children of Noisy Village. Not so much a village as a cluster of three farmhouses, Noisy Village is …
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important” What’s the Story? The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery is narrated by a crashed aviator stranded in the Sahara Desert. As he works desperately to repair his plane, a boy known only as “the little prince” shows up …
“Why do we celebrate Christmas?”“Because a child has come to earth,” said the tomte. What’s the Story? Grump is a tomte. What’s a tomte, you ask? A tomte is a mythological creature from Scandinavian folklore, similar in appearance to a garden gnome, and associated with Christmas. Grump lives alone, which is exactly how he …
