Read-a-long story time with Mommy

Join Mommy, Bryson, and Victoria as we read How to train your Porcupine? By Tom Toro  Two children bring home a pet porcupine, but they can only keep her if she's house-trained! After a whirlwind of increasingly zany approaches, the kids learn that sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to ask nicely. Support the show

join Mommy, Bryson, and Victoria as we read The Noisy Paintbox by Barb Rosenstock. Vasya Kandinsky was a proper little boy: he studied math and history, he practiced the piano, he sat up straight and was perfectly polite. And when his family sent him to art classes, they expected him to paint pretty houses and flowers—like a proper artist.    But as Vasya opened his paint box and began mixing the...

Join Mommy and Bryson as we continue our Art unit and read “Who Stole Mona Lisa?”: Narrated by the lady of the enigmatic smile herself--and brought to life with gorgeous paintings that take the reader from da Vinci's renaissance right up to the present day--this is a stylishly whimsical account of the glorious, wonderful, sometimes dangerous life of the best recognized painting of all time. D...

Join Mommy, Bryson, and Victoria as we continue with our Art Unit and read ‘The Sky Painter’:  Louis loves to watch birds. He takes care of injured birds and studies how they look and how they move. His father wants him to become an engineer, but Louis dreams of being a bird artist. To achieve this dream, he must practice, practice, practice. He learns from the art of John James Audubon. But as Lo...

Join Mommy and Bryson as we start our art unit.  Tommy knows he wants to be an artist when he grows up. He can't wait to get to school and have real art lessons. When Tommy gets to school and finds out that the art lessons are full of "rules", he is surprised and dismayed. How the wise art teacher finds a way to give Tommy the freedom to create and stay within the "rules"...

Join mommy and Bryson as we read about when Harry gets to the train station and tries to figure out how to get on the train!  Story Time With Wai Lana - The Lion and the Mouse Inspired by an Aesop Fable and the moral and spiritual values of yoga. Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Join Bryson, Victoria, and Mommy while We read one of Mommy’s favorite books from her childhood: David's little sister, Liz, proves that she is more than just a pest when she rescues a baby from walking over a bed of sea urchins at the beach. Support the show

Join Bryson, Victoria, and Mommy as we wrap up our Smoky Mountain vacation series in “and then comes Summer”: When the days stretch out like a slow yawn, and the cheerful faces of Johnny-jump-ups jump up . . . then it’s time to get ready for summer! From flip-flops and hide-and-seek to fireworks and ice-cream trucks, from lemonade stands and late bedtimes to swimming in the lake and toasting marsh...

Join Bryson, Victoria, and Mommy as we continue our Smoky Mountain vacation book series with the 2 parter: We visited the Cherokee American Indian village and museum today, so here are 2 Cherokee stories:  The First Strawberries: From an award-winning Native American storyteller comes this captivating re-telling of a Cherokee legend, which explains how strawberries came to be.  Grandmother Spider...

Join Bryson, Victoria, and mommy as we continue our Smoky Mountain vacation series. We went on a train trip on the Great Smoky Mountain railroad. Here is a book about Amazing Trains  Support the show

Join Bryson as he reads to us about Otter—the irrepressible picture book character sure to be adored by fans of Llama Llama—as he learns how to swim Support the show

Join Bryson, Victoria, and Mommy as we continue our Smoky Mountain vacation book series while reading about mountains:  A mountain might be thousands of feet high, but it can still grow taller or shorter each year. This classic picture book explores how mountains are made—including how Mount Everest grew from a flat plain under an ocean to become 29,028 feet tall. Support the show

Join Bryson, Victoria, and Mommy as we continue our Smoky Mountain vacation series. Tonight we read about Bears!!  Did you know that a grizzly eats about 35 pounds of food each day? Or that pandas were once thought to be raccoons? Each spread in this book features fascinating information and fabulous, full-color photographs. Support the show

Join Bryson, Victoria, and Mommy as we read a tale that concerns a shepherd boy who repeatedly fools villagers into thinking a wolf is attacking his town's flock. When an actual wolf appears and the boy calls for help, the villagers believe that it is another false alarm, and the sheep are eaten by the wolf.  Support the show

Join Bryson, Victoria, and Mommy on our first day of our vacation to the mountains as we  Read A book about all the things you see and do in the mountains.  Support the show

Join Mommy and Bryson as we read ch 5 Diagon Alley  Story Time With Wai Lana - The Lion and the Mouse Inspired by an Aesop Fable and the moral and spiritual values of yoga. Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Join Bryson and Mommy as we read about ch 4: the introduction of Hagrid!  Story Time With Wai Lana - The Lion and the Mouse Inspired by an Aesop Fable and the moral and spiritual values of yoga. Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Join Bryson, Victoria, and Mommy while We read how Daniel and Miss Elaina are playing together at school. Daniel wants to build a train. Miss Elaina wants to build a spaceship. How can they solve the problem? Teacher Harriet gently encourages, “try to fix the problem yourself and you’ll feel proud.” Support the show

Join Bryson and Mommy as we read chapter 3 of the 1st Harry Potter book  Story Time With Wai Lana - The Lion and the Mouse Inspired by an Aesop Fable and the moral and spiritual values of yoga. Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Join Victoria and Mommy while we read about Daddies: In a charming rhyme, this 1953 Little Golden Books asks, "What do daddies do all day? Daddies work while children play." It shows daddies working in all kinds of careers, from farming to teaching to even singing in the opera! And it assures children that at the end of the workday, "by taxi, train, by car and bus, Daddy rushes home...

Join Bryson and Mommy as we read chapter 2 of the first HP book  Support the show

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Join Mommy and Bryson as we start the Harry Potter series together. This is book 1, ch 1.  Story Time With Wai Lana - The Lion and the Mouse Inspired by an Aesop Fable and the moral and spiritual values of yoga. Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Join Bryson and Mommy as we read off facts 52-101 facts about Tech: Learn all about the crazy history of technology in this second Fact Attack book featuring over 250 awesomely incredible, weird, and crazy facts! Support the show

Join Bryson and Mommy as we read off the first 51 facts about Texh: Learn all about the crazy history of technology in this second Fact Attack book featuring over 250 awesomely incredible, weird, and crazy facts! Support the show