Michelle Obama PBS Kids Readalong Series

Seize a snack and discover a comfortable seat as a result of it’s story time. Michelle Obama is the newest reader for PBS Children’ movie star read-along collection. Over the course of 4 weeks, the previous first woman is studying 4 of her favourite youngsters’s books, and you’ll watch free of charge on YouTube.

“Mondays with Michelle” kicked off on Monday, April 20, with The Gruffalo, written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. 

“It is a e-book about a little bit mouse who makes use of his wit and creativeness to outsmart a snake, an owl, and a hungry fox on his stroll by means of a deep, darkish wooden,” Obama explains, earlier than she begins studying.

As she reads (doing totally different voices for the assorted characters, which youngsters are certain to like), the video reveals a close-up have a look at pages from the e-book.

Earlier PBS Children read-along hosts embody Marc Brown (writer and illustrator of the Arthur e-book collection), Victoria Kann (writer and illustrator of the Pinkalicious & Pterrific books), and Angela Santomero (creator of the present Daniel Tiger). Yow will discover all of the movies within the collection right here.

This Monday, April 27, Obama will learn There’s a Dragon in Your Ebook, written by Tom Fletcher and illustrated by Greg Abbott. Every of her storytime movies drops at 12p.m. ET. Keep watch over the PBS Children Twitter web page to seek out out what she’ll learn subsequent.