This amazing group visited East Bridgewater to help solve the case of The Unfortunate Passing of Pliant McTwist. The kids that came to play was one of the more excited groups this summer!

Everyone was racing to be the first to solve the case s they could be promoted to lead detective!

Ultimately, these ladies solved first and were the winners! The rest of the impressive groups finished right after with everyone able to solve the case, telling me who, what, where, and why!

Congratulations to all the detectives!

I am so humbled by the amazing parents and kids who jumped right into the mystery room with excitement! These brave souls discovered their lineage and then earned enough to obtain their totem!

Amazingly, these teams translated, searched, transported, assembled and even unlocked their way to success! The teams were so enthusiastic and were happy to spend an hour solving this mystery out of the summer heat!

These teams all finished with flying colors and are showing off the monsters they adopted on the way out of Bludhaven!:

The winners was this mother/son team who are proudly wearing their medals and winning smiles!

I had a blast bringing The Unfortunate Passing of Pliant McTwist: A Murder Mystery to the Wilbraham Library this past Tuesday! These groups came to play as they made their way through every suspect and their games to get the evidence they need to solve the case!

After completing the physical and mental challenges they sorted through the evidence and revealed the real culprit! The pic (above) is the winning ladies realizing that their deductive skills were a success and they were correct!

This brother/sister team (above) showed a lot of heart in getting the answers they needed to find the guilty party! They worked so well together and came up with the solution in the end! Although they were a little shy when it came to the taking a “Solved It!” picture they still deserve so much credit!

The winner pic of the trio of ladies who were promoted to full detectives!:

A few more pics of some great teams – these brother and sister teams solved the mystery and helped to bring the killer to justice!

If you’d like to see more pictures of the kids having a great time check out my Facebook page! If you’d like to book a mystery yourself, call me today! (508) 641-5336.

I love being at places like the Children’s Museum of Greater Fall River. Buildings dedicated to creating real opportunities for children to explore STEM skills but also, what I consider the most important, getting to use their imaginations! Room after room of exciting themes like space travel, music, colors and dinosaurs!

This is why when I get invited to come and share my stories at a place this fantastic I jump at the chance! Seeing families laugh along with my tales and then run off to discover all the wonders that this place offers, it just makes my whole day!

We had such a beautiful morning last week when we celebrated Maple Day at the South Shore Natural Science Center. The crowd came in and filled the forest with giggles and smiles! All while snacking on some delicious pancakes and syrup!

We were gifted with great weather and it seems like the rain held off until we were done having a great time! Overall, it’s wonderful being back in Norwell and I will see you again in the future!

I am so happy to show off the teams that arrived to help solve the case of The Unfortunate Passing of Pliant McTwist: A Murder Mystery! Even my daughter, Alexandra was on hand to help the detectives!

These skilled detectives went to work beating each of the suspects at their own games! They were constantly impressive and wonderfully enthusiastic in sifting through the evidence!

In the end, this Father/Daughter Trio finished first and earned their badges!

But no one leaves empty handed! Each player earned their badges as well, and took a victory photo!

The welcome that I received today was so surprising and amazing I’m STILL thinking about how sweet and wonderful it was! First of, the  welcome sign and balloon towers were above and beyond already. Then to receive a goody bag of water, popcorn and mints? Man, you treat your guests like royalty! Thank you so much!

Each of the groups were fantastic as well! The K-2nd grade kiddos heard George and the Loose Tooth and Abiyoyo with a quick intermission of The Button Factory. Then the 3rd and 4th grade came in to hear Cupcakes and Timmy.

I think I have mentioned in the past, but I truly do love telling Timmy to the older elementary school kids. The story always engrosses them in a way that leaves them absolutely silent in the end, expecting more, absorbing what they just heard. It always makes me so happy when the children begin to get dismissed from the room and they can’t stop asking questions about the story!

I still think about this email I received from a woman who still remembered the story over 10 years later:

Well, again, thank you to Clifford Marshall for the invite and the pictures. If you want to see more or want to see The Button Factory in action head over to my Facebook page!

Sometimes I get small surprises when visiting some of my favorite places! Like this painted rock greeting me at the Truro Library last week!

And, for the record, it did make me feel like I was okay!

It was a great day for stories! I was happy to entertain the kiddos who came to browse all the greatness that the farmer’s brought. Thank you to whomever took these great photos – I liked the one below so much that I made it my new Facebook photo.

I even snagged myself some amazing breads, jam and local honey!

Here is the storytelling schedule for this week:

• Monday: Temple Israel @ 10:00am/12:30pm
• Monday: Holmes Public Library @ 1:00pm – Raising a Reader – Week 3 (With guest teacher Miss Debbie)
• Tuesday: Scituate Public Library @ 10:30am – Raising a Reader – Week 3
• Wednesday: Holbrook Library @10:30am
• Thursday: Brown Bear Academy @ 10:00/10:30am
• Saturday: Medfield Public Library @ 10:30am
• Saturday: Jonathan Bourne Library @ 1:30pm *Preschool Building Stories – Final Week

This week Miss Debbie will be filling in for me at the Holmes Library.  She is fantastic and I know the kids will absolutely love her!  We continue with full workshops in Halifax and Scituate but will let you know when the new workshops will begin!  If you want to join us for Building Stories in Bourne this is our final week!

Towns I will be visiting this week:

1. Sharon
2. Scituate
3. Holbrook
4. Cohasset
5. Medfield
6. Bourne