Tastes of award-winning books with audio

Grab your kids or students and get ready to move! “Gobble, Quack, Moon,” a rockin’ animal story with audio, is great for pre-K through 2nd grade. Winner of prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award. Enjoy this slightly shortened version!

This funny video in Spanish addresses why some parents hesitate reading to their kids: lack of confidence, fear of boring their child, preference for watching TV, etc. Kiki makes it abundantly clear that it’s the closeness and time together that counts!

Here’s some of the taiko drumming I learned in Japan. As a student, I lived for months in a Shinto shrine—a sort of temple—where I interned with taiko drummers. My sister, the artist Joan Gollub, made me the mask, inspired by the Japanese goblins in my book, Ten Oni Drummers.