See HAIR LOVE! Our 8.5.22 StoryTime Video
Welcome to Summer Storytime in Promise Heights!
Please join our community friends reading their favorite stories that we’ll release every Friday starting in early July through September 2022. Click here to see the August 5, 2022 video. And please do click our YouTube "subscribe" button so you won’t miss each week’s video!)
The stories we share are appropriate for kids ages 0-6, yet all ages can enjoy them! (Scroll down to see the text from today's story.)
After each story, we share ideas to talk about the book to enrich your child’s experience with simple DIY craft projects that you and your kids can do together.
TODAY’S READING:
Welcome to this reading of "Hair Love" a book by Matthew A. Cherry, and illustrated by Vashti Harrison. Click here to see the reading!
Starting on August 5, 2022, whenever you like you can hear and read along with this story.
As always, after each reading, Ms. Linda leads a family DIY craft project to enrich your experience of the story. Why not prepare now?
You'll need the following craft supplies:
A round paper plate
A pair of scissors
A bottle of glue or very sticky glue stick
A pencil, plus colored markers and/or crayons
Yarn (ideally matching the color of your child’s hair)
ABOUT “HAIR LOVE”:
This reading is given by Mr. Eean Logan, Is an experienced Program Manager, educator, and facilitator, from Baltimore Maryland.
A 2022 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Fellow, Eean currently serves as the Civic Culture Director at No Boundaries Coalition, where he works to educate and encourage civic participation through programs for all ages in 21217.
(Clearly he enjoys reading to children—something that will be evident from the start as he shares his enjoyment of “Hair Love.” Big-time thanks to him for sharing this important story about self-love, about clearly expressing personal hopes and desires, and the rich heritage that families inevitably share with one another.)