Mary Lee has some wonderful songs we played on the air. Her CD Whale Watching rocks!

Have you ever helped anyone? This delightful story is about helping one another. It is written by Cheryl Block of Block Publishing

Rainbow Web by Cheryl Block is an interesting story of a little spider and how he decides to make a rainbow web. But, once he changes his web's color, his survival is in danger. There is a valuable lesson here for children. And Cheryl Block illustrates it very clearly.

When my girls were small, we loved this story. Through the years it has stayed with us. It is just one of those stories you don't forget about because it is so human a story.

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"Love is all you need!" Miss Judy

"When you know you are loved,

you can't help but be a

Happy Chappy!"

"Love is all you need!" Miss Judy

"When you know you are loved,

you can't help but be a

Happy Chappy!"

"Love is all you need!" Miss Judy

"When you know you are loved,

you can't help but be a

Happy Chappy!"

"Love is all you need!" Miss Judy

"When you know you are loved,

you can't help but be a

Happy Chappy!"

"Love is all you need!" Miss Judy

"When you know you are loved,

you can't help but be a

Happy Chappy!"

"Love is all you need!" Miss Judy

"When you know you are loved,

you can't help but be a

Happy Chappy!"

A first-grade author

Six-year-old Selina Banerjee loves to swim, practice karate, and sing in her Indian classical voice class. Add writing a book to that list.
In the grown-up world of publishing, Selina is one of its younger authors, having sold her first book, "My Preschool Graduation," a behind-the-scenes look at an event that took place a year ago at the Longwood Medical Area Child Care Center. Tate Publishing bought the 22-page manuscript last month and will publish it this summer as an illustrated children's book.
So what does little Miss Banerjee think of all this?

Where did my love for storytime come from? "I decided to create this radio program because I believe we have lost a significant amount of contact with our children. The childhood obesity issue, to me, reveals this one point vividly. No matter what the cause of childhood obesity is, the point is our children are not being considered as part of the family or the community. Staying up late and watching TV on school nights, becoming couch potatoes, dropping our of school early, all these are signs that our children are viewing 'other' more often than viewing 'we'. They have lost themselves in TV, video games, drugs, etc. In other words in "other" rather than in "we."

What can we do to promote 'we'? My answer for myself is simply read to children. I remember as a homeschooling mom I would read children's books or tell my girls stories of my youth at their bedtime. Because I spent so much of my young life with my grandmother during the summer months in Canada, it seemed I had lots to tell. My grandmother had nine children. She was always in her garden or in the kitchen. When I was staying with her for prolonged periods of time, she and I would design a vegetable garden for the summer. I would tend to the beans, corn on the cob and tomatoes while she readied her mason jars for the harvest.

"Each night she would put me to bed then lie down beside me and tell me stories of her youth and her vegetable garden. She would tell me about her blueberries being as big as her thumb and her tomatoes as red as a Christmas dress. She would tell me about the bees dancing in her garden telling one another where the nectared flowers are. She would always say they moved as carefully as deer through a forest. She would tell me how the vegetables sucked in the sun's energy during the day and made starches and sugars at night while we were sleeping. She would always make me think there was a 'we' ; there was nature and me.

I don't know exactly what it was about these private stories, but I do know they had magic in them.They swooped me up into a warm world where there was a 'we' waiting to be felt, absorbed, and embraced. I thank my grandmother (picture of grandma above) for the hundreds of hours of story telling that are priceless." Judy Wilken MS