One of my favorite children stories is Pete Seager's AbiYoYo. Somewhere in our past, Tina and I were exposed to an animated version of this with Pete Seager telling/singing the story. We have a paperback copy of it in our library from when Cam and Ben were little and Kai and Shen both love it. When I read it to the boys I do my best to imitate Pete Seager's style as I believe he tells it perfectly. It's nice because the song (even though it's about a terrible monster) is a lullaby, so at the end I just repeat it over and over, lowly and slowly.

Before I read stories to the boys at night they have some time to look at books themselves. Lately Kai has been fascinated by a series of books by Scholastic called "First Discovery Books". We have the The Earth and Sky, Weather and Pyramids. Kai is quite interested in the mummies. Another favorite right now, which is perfect for Halloween is The Ghost Eye Tree.

So this is a video of the boys reading books. I shot it mostly because I just love the way Shen repeats AbiYoYo over and over.


And this is an old video of Pete Seager telling the story on his TV show from the early '60's. I love the way he tells this...