Wordless picture books scare people. The crutch of the typed out words aren’t there, a lot of people aren’t sure of what to say – how to tell the story! Personally, I love wordless picture books because it gives the child a chance to tell the story to you.  Looking Down is a great story that simply gets a closer look, with every turn of the page, at this beautiful world of ours.  Check it out today!

  

After an extremely busy week, I was in Scituate on Tuesday, Fall River Wednesday, a wonderful show for the residents of Royal Nursing Home in Falmouth on Thursday, then Thursday night spent in New Bedford telling some families stories for Little People’s College Family Reading Night, then Friday where I spent the whole day in Hanover and ended in Hull for an Ice Cream Social hosted by the Hull Family Network, I am looking forward to my day off on Sunday.  My foot seems to healing just fine, and thank you to everyone who has either called or emailed me well wishes.  My doctor said nothing is actually broken. 

Lastly, after a quick meeting with the owner of Cubby’s Clubhouse (871 Washington St, Rte 53 – right across the street from McGee Toyota, in Hanover), I will be doing 2 shows this week.  Both Thursday (5/24) and Friday (5/25) I will be there from 5:30 – 7:00pm telling my funny tales and selling my CD’s.  Call Cubby’s for more information (781) 826 – 2582.  If you have the opportunity swing by and check it out!  Hope to see you there!

Below are some pictures from Family Literacy Night participating in the song “Hi My Name is Joe” with some pretty funny results.

• Family Literacy Night 1
• Family Literacy Night 2
• Family Literacy Night 3

  

Last Friday, after my shows in Pembroke, during a daring attempt to save a small child off of a rock that he climbed but could not get down, I slipped off the rock and my ankle rolled, spraining it severely.  It may not look pretty – but it felt worse.  No fears though!  I still did my show at the Charter School at 6:00 and even did my teacher training in Taunton the next day.  Check out the pictures!  Warning – some of them are pretty gross.

• Big Ryan Sign
• Big Ryan Sign II
• The Park where the Accident occurred
• Teacher Training
• Foot 5/6/07
• Foot 5/8/07

The visually stunning OH! is a hidden treasure in children’s literature.  Each simple picture, a tea cup, a clothes pin, a flower, the moon – becomes so much more.  The theme is arresting and children will pick this book again and again to flip through and enjoy!  Great book for toddlers – even better for preschool and early Elementary.  I can’t praise this book enough!  One of my absolute favorites!

  

This past Thursday and Saturday I had two great shows.  First, the Bourne Library packed the crowd in nice and tight – so that everyone who came to see me had a chance to!  There was hardly standing room!  What a enthusiastic crowd that showed up! 

Next, on Saturday, I visited the Buttonwood Zoo where another room FULL of people laughed along to my silly stories and had alot of fun meeting Edgar and Charlie and, of course, Alligator!  Check out the pics below to see all of the storytelling action!

• Wolf and Moose at Bourne                  Big Ryan Announcement
• Bourne 3                                                 Zoo Crowd 2
• Bourne 4                                                 Me Moving So Fast – I look all blurry!
• Zoo Entrance                                          Meeting Alligator
• Zoo Crowd                                               Juggling!

 

A large group of friends joined me at the South Yarmouth Library this past Wednesday evening.  Some of whom have never seen a Big Ryan show before!  After the show was over many of the new fans came over to tell me just how much they enjoyed the show!  A large thank you goes to the Children’s Librarian who took all of the pictures and shared them with me so I could post them here!

• Alligator – not behaving
• The Fishing Song
• Crowd Shot

These Pictures are from 2003 when I did a play called “Big Ryan’s Tall Tales presents Big Ryan’s Tall Tales Come Alive End of the Summer Spectacular!”  It was alot of fun but alot of money to put on – so eventually – the plays could not go on.  If you were there please leave a message telling me what you thought of the plays – if you’d like to see another play leave a message saying so.  Maybe, with enough interest, the play will go on!

• Play 1
• Play 2
• Play 3 (My favorite)

This story is about two boys who find a small treasure – an old pair of motorcycle goggles!  Along with thier dog Willie, Peter and Archie head home – only to encounter some older boys who want the goggles for themselves!  See what Peter and Archie do!  This story is one of my favorite Keats stories because it deals with issues that every young boy has had to deal with from time to time – bigger, scary, older boys!  I really like how Keats handles the situation he puts this characters in and it makes a wonderful addition to any library!

  

First, let me just appologize about not getting these pictures up right away.  I have been a bit busy – but I wanted to show you just how wonderful the crowds were at this past Saturday’s shows!  Alot of familiar faces showed up to hear my stories!  I told “Morphing Beans” and both Wolf and Moose and the Dog Puppets made appearences!  It was such a fantastic time.  It was also good to see David Mellow – a fellow storyteller – amuse the audience with his tales too!  Check out some of the pictures below!

• The First Group
• Crowd Shots
• Growing and Growing
• The Boys Hangin’
• Wolf and Moose – Hard at Work

 

It’s that time of year again!  Every March I get to visit the children from Kindergarten to 4th Grade in Bridgewater.  Today Mrs. Holmes took some wonderful pictures that I thought I’d share with you.  The children of Bridgewater always welcome me with such enthusiasm and it’s a pleasure to see them every year!

Check out these pics!

• In the Moment

• Peek-a-Boo

• Storyteller

• Wolf And Moose