Read Across America Day

 Everyday should be Read Across America Day.  The special events calendars list March 1st as that very special day.

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation enlists screen and theater performers in reading picture books.  Then they post these readings online.  For Free.  Is that the most wonderful thing?  Hint: the answer is YES.

Click here to scroll through the Storytime Online library of read aloud videos.  Classics from long ago are mixed in with the best picture books of the day.

Like this one:  Harry, the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion, read by Betty White.

Re-Seussification

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss.  Happy Read Across America Day to everyone!  Happy birthday, childhood's favorite Muse!  A man of myth, and words, and wonder, and fun!

From @gallerynuclus by way of justpicturethis.tumblr.com

OK!  From Fuse#8 Productions we have a the results of Elizabeth Bird's  Re-Seussfication Project.  She challenged illustrators to re-illustrate a Seuss classic in the style of another illustrator, honoring both - I hope. I particularly like the last illustration. 

Jarrett Krosoczka re-seussified The Cat in the Hat in Bernard Waber style.  This is NOT the last illustration referred to above.