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

 

This past Saturday I spent my morning entertaining the wonderful children of Taunton. A group of about 50 children were there and ready to laugh their way through my show. They were treated to “In the Tub”, they danced their way through “Hi, My Name is Joe” and a couple quick appearences by Max, Edgar, and Charlie (the dog puppets) rounded out the rest of the show. The Taunton Enterprise was there and did a quick story that you can read here

Alot of the pictures came out blurry – but check these pics out:

• Edgar and Charlie
• Dancing

 

The Plymouth Library just booked Friday, July 27th at 10:30am for me to come and tell my stories.  This is one of the best and most well-attended shows of the summer so I like to let everyone know in advance!  Write it on your calendars!  And look on the Upcoming Shows page for any other libraries in your area hosting a Big Ryan’s Tall Tales event! 

Below are some Plymouth Library shows from the past years.

• Plymouth 1
• Plymouth 2
• Plymouth 3

  

I’m sorry it took me so long to get these pictures up – I have not been feeling well the past few days – but these are pictures from Sat, 3/3/07.  The Plymouth Early Childhood Fair was my first stop of the day where I saw so many of my fans come to enjoy alot of fun stories and dancing.  The crowds for the 2 shows were both wonderful and energetic!  My next stop was at the Marshfield Yacht Club where the kids had a blast doing much of the same!  Pictures speak louder than words so just click on the links below to see more images and see for yourself just how much fun it was!

• Wolf and Moose                                     

• Two huge fans at the Fair    

• Wolf and Moose II                                 

• The Look Says it All    

• Where’s Big Ryan?                                  

• Alligator             

• Alligator II                                              

• Catch!