Episode 135

Kino has brought a really heavy book to the Storyplace, and Mara helps him take it out of his backpack. It is one of poems and songs about America that was given to him by his grandfather, who read it as a young boy. Mara knows one of the songs, so they sing "The Erie Canal". Kino wants to sing it again, but Fred Savage is ready to read a book about a boy who loses a mitten. They talk about how this story couldn't have happened, because it was just fantasy. Then Leah Komaiko comes in to read two of the books she has written in rhyme. She asks the kids what it means to be cool and provides them all with sunglasses to read her first book, about a cool boy who does fantastic things. Her second one is about a best friend who has to move away. Finally, they all go on a picture book visit with Steve Guttenberg, who reads a book about snake brothers who learn to share.

Books Read

 * From Sea to Shining Sea: A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs
 * The Mitten
 * Earl's Too Cool for Me
 * Annie Bananie
 * Slither McCreep and His Brother, Joe

Story Picks

 * A Day with Wilbur Robinson
 * Leo the Late Bloomer