The Connecticut Children’s Museum

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - April 23, 2013 - PRLog -- The Connecticut Children’s Museum

Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats

What: Artists and educators engage children with dramatic renderings of books through the Creating Readers Saturdays at 2 program.

Where: Connecticut Children's Museum, Creating Kids, and Creating Curriculum

Children's Building 22 Wall St. New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 562-5437 Fax (203) 787-9414

When: Saturday, April 27, 20113, 2:00 pm

Info: Each week, a book will be chosen which integrates reading with the museum’s exhibits.

Goal: The goal is to link literacy to hands-on activities, to read a book that children connect to a real-life event in which they are players, a book that deepens that experience for children, a book that they can carry with them, a book that they are invested in reading because it evokes memories of a place where they are empowered and engaged learner.

Book: Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats performed by Betty Baisden and her amazing marionette show

Press Contact:

Hallana Paula Barbosa

The Connecticut Children’s Museum

(908) 967-0502