“At Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory, we offer a weekday Words & Wings Storytime in the winter for young children and their families. This story has become one of our favourites, and we include it with the theme/topic of “walking gently” and respecting all life around us, even the small lives. We do a small activity where… Read more »
Thanks to Ada Moreau Demlow of The Librarian Life for featuring Hey, Little Ant. “…a great tool to kick off conversations about bullying, animal rights, use and abuse of power, and other related issues.” Here’s to the librarians’ life of connecting kids and books!
We thank Morah Basha from Chabad Early Learning Center (CELM) in NYC for sharing Hey, Little Ant with her students. Ms. Basha notes on CELM’s blog that the book “was a great opportunity to learn about the Mitzvah of “Tza’ar Ba’alei Chayim,” not to give pain to the living creatures Hashem created.” We say, “Shabbat… Read more »
When you put “to squish or not to squish” up for a vote amongst kids, the “not” generally wins out. The authors did not write the book just to hear a chorus of “not to squish,” but to open up a dialogue amongst kids and kids and adults. This morning we came across a conversation… Read more »
From a 2nd Grader in the beautiful South: “The boy should not sqishe the ant. If they switced the boy would not like to get killed. The boy is killing nature. ants are a part of nature. The ant’s would not like it. Let the ant live.”