Author Read-Alouds and Activities

Get creative and have fun with Dav Pilkey and some of your favorite characters from Dog Man and Captain Underpants! Check back every Friday to discover new activities, exciting videos, and so much more!

Goodnight with Dolly is a 10-week special series of weekly videos featuring Dolly Parton reading select Imagination Library books. The first book in the series is The Little Engine That Could, newly illustrated by Dan Santat, author of Beekle!

Mo Willems invites YOU into his studio every day for his LUNCH DOODLE. Learners worldwide can draw, doodle and explore new ways of writing by visiting Mo’s studio virtually once a day for the next few weeks. Grab some paper and pencils, pens, or crayons and join Mo to explore ways of writing and making together.

Kids Ask Authors is a weekly 5-10 minute podcast where children’s book author/illustrator Grace Lin and a guest author answer one question from a child reader. Most episodes will with a book review, poem, short story or a joke by kids!

Every Monday, Cece Bell is posting a chapter from her book, El Deafo, along with a discussion of background information about the book.

As we find ourselves social distancing and learning from home, Jarrett J. Krosoczka is producing video content every single weekday for artists young and older than young.

Lauren Tarshis is posting videos of herself reading her book, I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912

Peter Reynolds, author of The Dot, Ish, and many more, is reading aloud one of his books every day on Facebook at 12:00pm. Scroll through his page to see previous read-alouds.