We’ve all heard of Drag Queen Story Hour. We also know that the content of children’s books keeps changing for the worse - ever more sex, including graphic depictions, and violence. Here is a solution: StoryNest.
My girls LOVED these when mama-bear here wasn't the reader herself--fine fairy tales too--all read with great diction an' with feelin'. Nothin' "woke" fer miles... (Imma sucker fer the lovely lilt of the Queens English!)
Yes, this is fabulous stuff. I also suggest people subscribe, if they can afford it (under 10 dollars - 7.50 or 7.95, if I remember right) and have children they want reading this stuff, as Taseyah and her husband and also the new authors they are bringing in, also need our financial support.
I wish them well! This is kinda my wheelhouse (not runnin' a company tho!)
Story Nory (which I suggested) is out of the UK, they've been around fer quite some time and are fully free, no subscription or need for an "app" even (we never used devices ourselfs, no earphones, buds, etc) but apart from playin' vintage albums with "great" actor's readin' old skool tales (Danny Kaye, Burl Ives, etc), we were partial to StoryNory which is just one more option fer parents if any are readin' this (?)
I know a bit about it all as me an' my younger gal have done this kinda thing too (paid voice work an' I've also done story-tellin' "live" for kids of all ages) an' it's a lotta fun!
One'a these days I may do a postin' on it an' share some... it's one of the joys of childhood to hear read lovely tales well-told ;-) Hope some parents of young'uns see this as I'm sad ta say the libraries have gone off the deep end--soitenly the ones in NewYawk which were my old stompin' grounds.
We were lucky that 'fore the Moldy Apple went full rotten we had a whole world of live storytellers--monthly Scandinavian tales from the Hans Christian Andersen Storytellers and the inimitable Vit Horejs who is legendary! No drag queens or adult material--post "plandemic" I'm wonderin' if some of the "elders" are still with us now--some were actors but others were NYC school teachers (past the age of retirement but still teachin') an' the union mandated the jabs--I hope these lovely folks are still around (better they retired than complied but so many did not know how unsafe they were...)...
https://www.storynory.com/archives/classic-authors/ is free! No drag, nothin' iffy.
My girls LOVED these when mama-bear here wasn't the reader herself--fine fairy tales too--all read with great diction an' with feelin'. Nothin' "woke" fer miles... (Imma sucker fer the lovely lilt of the Queens English!)
Yes, this is fabulous stuff. I also suggest people subscribe, if they can afford it (under 10 dollars - 7.50 or 7.95, if I remember right) and have children they want reading this stuff, as Taseyah and her husband and also the new authors they are bringing in, also need our financial support.
I wish them well! This is kinda my wheelhouse (not runnin' a company tho!)
Story Nory (which I suggested) is out of the UK, they've been around fer quite some time and are fully free, no subscription or need for an "app" even (we never used devices ourselfs, no earphones, buds, etc) but apart from playin' vintage albums with "great" actor's readin' old skool tales (Danny Kaye, Burl Ives, etc), we were partial to StoryNory which is just one more option fer parents if any are readin' this (?)
I know a bit about it all as me an' my younger gal have done this kinda thing too (paid voice work an' I've also done story-tellin' "live" for kids of all ages) an' it's a lotta fun!
One'a these days I may do a postin' on it an' share some... it's one of the joys of childhood to hear read lovely tales well-told ;-) Hope some parents of young'uns see this as I'm sad ta say the libraries have gone off the deep end--soitenly the ones in NewYawk which were my old stompin' grounds.
We were lucky that 'fore the Moldy Apple went full rotten we had a whole world of live storytellers--monthly Scandinavian tales from the Hans Christian Andersen Storytellers and the inimitable Vit Horejs who is legendary! No drag queens or adult material--post "plandemic" I'm wonderin' if some of the "elders" are still with us now--some were actors but others were NYC school teachers (past the age of retirement but still teachin') an' the union mandated the jabs--I hope these lovely folks are still around (better they retired than complied but so many did not know how unsafe they were...)...
Looking forward to your maybe doing a posting like the one you said you might do one of these days.
okey dokey! thx!