Storytime Across the Nation

For Judith Heineman, Story Time Is All the Time

Once upon a time, Mohegan Lake resident Judith Heineman was a professional actress (SAG-AFTRA union member) plus poet and teacher, but not yet a professional storyteller. Now, storytelling is her primary way of engaging an audience, and one she thinks of as especially important in times of strife.  “In my naivete, I believe we could achieve world peace if we’d only sit down and listen to each other, because if we truly hear each other’s stories,…

Storytime across the nation

More than 2.2 million tuned online to a national live-streaming of children’s book The Truck Cat at Springvale Library. The 25th annual National Simultaneous Storytime featured the author Deborah Frenkel reading to a captive audience of about 100 students seated in the library – as well as many more on YouTube. The book’s illustrator Danny Snell demonstrated how to draw the ‘truck cat’. Frenkel spoke of how she wrote the book after nursing an in…

National Simultaneous Storytime reaches more than 2 million readers | Books+Publishing

National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS), which ran internationally on 21 May, showed ‘that Australia is a reading nation — at every age,’ said the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), which organised the event.  ALIA reported that 2,204,658 registered participants from about 16,632 locations read The Truck Cat (Deborah Frenkel, illus by Danny Snell, HGCP) on […]