This year, I wanted to put my artist’s hat on. I’ve spent seventeen years volunteering for Ethiopia Reads, mostly concentrating on raising money to plant libraries, build schools, hire staff, support book centered learning.
Many other types of books, too, such as the biography of Johnny Appleseed that a Simon Schuster editor suggested I write. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Mo Willems with his twenty-five elephant and piggie books or Chris Raschka with Yo? Yes! or Whaley Whale and Wormy Worm. And the experimentation flowed on-artists putting together fun and fascinating words and phrases, in clever and often repeating combinations. Parents and educators still share Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon or Dr. (See more information about Dick and Jane books here.)Īs the decades passed, quirky people with quirky ideas took easy-to-read books in even more creative directions. In the 1930s in the US, Dick and Jane appeared, “characters with whom children could identify,” with stories that emphasized “the meaning of words rather than using rote phonics drills.” My mother taught me to read in Maji, Ethiopia, using Dick and Jane and other stories inspired by them. The topic of bookmaking has become a central feature of our organization’s work and we continue to explore to ways to create more and more local-language reading material for children across Ethiopia.Īrtists are also born every day, all around the world-people who see things in new ways and try to make their work true and bold and full of their own particular visions. Our first guest is Ethiopia Reads co-founder and former board chair Jane Kurtz, a well-known children’s author and professor of creative writing.
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