Instructional Video
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Eric Carle

Pre-K - 1st
Watch while this author and illustrator of many classic children's books like "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" talks about his art career, why some books take longer to make than others and why he opened a picture book museum.
Instructional Video
Storyline Online

Storyline Online: Knots on a Counting Rope

K - 1st
The counting rope is a metaphor for the passage of time and for a boy's emerging confidence facing his greatest challenges: blindness and the approaching death of his beloved grandfather. Written by: Bill Martin Jr., Read by: Bonnie...
Instructional Video
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Bill Martin Jr.

Pre-K - 1st
Bill Martin Jr's Brown Bear, Brown Bear book is almost required reading for parents of young children. In video clips from A Visit With Bill Martin Jr (1996), he talks about his "jazzy" writing. Watch the interview to learn more about...