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Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream
April 20, 2015
If there was anything in the world better than playing baseball, Marcenia Lyle didn’t know what it was. As a young girl in the 1930s, she chased down fly balls and stole bases, and dreamed of one day playing professional ball.
With spirit, spunk, and a great passion for the sport, Marcenia struggled to overcome the objections of family, friends, and coaches, who felt a girl had no place in the field. When she finally won a position in a baseball summer camp sponsored by the St. Louis Cardinals, Marcenia was on her way to catching her dream.
Full of warmth and youthful energy, Catching the Moon is the story of the girl who grew up to become the first woman to play for an all-male professional baseball team. Readers everywhere will be inspired by her courage to dream and determination to succeed.
Me and My Cat?
February 28, 2013
Late one night Nicholas sees a witch enter his bedroom and hears her say some magic words. When he wakes up the next morning, it doesn’t take him long to realize something very strange is going on — especially when he pulls at his whiskers!
Memoirs of a Hamster
October 10, 2023
Night 1 / My life is perfect. / I have a bowl full of seeds, a cozy pile of wood shavings, and room to run. / I’m never leaving here. / Question: Who’s the luckiest hamster in the world? / Answer: ME! Seymour the hamster has the perfect life. He has a spacious cage, a constant food supply, and a FuzzyBoy 360 exercise wheel that lets him run to his heart’s content. Life could not be better. Or could it? When Pearl the cat tells Seymour of the goodies beyond the safe confines of his cage, he starts to think he’s missing out. And out is the new in! It’s only after Seymour is out of his cage that he begins to fully appreciate his safe and cozy home.
About Storyline Online
August 12, 2019
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine, Kristen Bell, Rita Moreno, Viola Davis, Jaime Camil, Kevin Costner, Lily Tomlin, Sarah Silverman, Betty White, Wanda Sykes and dozens more.
Reading aloud to children has been shown to improve reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking and concentration, and general academic aptitude, as well as inspire a lifelong love of reading. Teachers use Storyline Online in their classrooms, and doctors and nurses play Storyline Online in children’s hospitals.
Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.
Storyline Online is a program of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. The Foundation is a non-profit organization that relies entirely on gifts, grants and donations to fund Storyline Online and produce all of its videos.
You can help the SAG-AFTRA Foundation create more Storyline Online videos and new content, so that we can read to millions more children every month. By giving a gift to Storyline Online, you can help advance children’s literacy, and improve children’s lives. Your support makes a world of difference.
SAG-AFTRA Foundation Production Team
Executive Director
Cyd Wilson
Chief Operating Officer/Managing Director
Charlotte Wells
National Director of Performers Programs/Executive Producer
Rochelle Rose
Director of Communications/Producer
Caroline O’Connor
Senior Graphic Designer
Julia Avanessians
Operations Manager
Danny Zeff
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November 9, 2018
If I Ran for President
September 15, 2018
If you ran for president, you would have to do a lot of hard work. You would study the nation’s problems, tell the American people about your platform, select a running mate, and debate your opponents on live television.
Access books like this through First Book, a nonprofit social enterprise working exclusively with programs and schools serving kids in need to ensure that they have access to top quality books and educational resources at deep discounts. First Book supports over 390,000 educators across the country – both formal and informal – who are sharing the love of reading with the kids they serve. Check out their Voting & Civic Engagement section here!
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March 12, 2018
Mice Twice
October 2, 2017
Cat and Miss Mouse become involved in a round of uneasy hospitality when Miss Mouse accepts Cat’s dinner invitation. While Cat expects her to walk right into his trap, Miss Mouse outsmarts him by asking her close friend Dog to join her. The animals perform a literal game of cat-and-mouse through dinner invitations, continuously amping up their efforts until a hilarious and fitting conclusion results. Mice Twice is a charming, funny and thoughtful fable about friendship, cleverness, irony, self-awareness and manners.
Can I suggest a book?
May 12, 2017
Absolutely! We keep track of book suggestions and try to produce book videos of the most popular suggestions if possible. But keep in mind that we get LOTS of suggestions, and the process for getting permissions and rights to produce a book is complicated and at times difficult. So we can’t promise anything, but we love to hear what your favorite books are.
When are more books coming???
We are just as eager as you to produce as many new books as quickly as possible to grow the Storyline Online library. Getting a Storyline Online book video produced can be complicated. It involves negotiating rights and releases with publishers, authors, and the actors who read the books. It involves scheduling with very busy people. If everything aligns and runs smoothly, it can still take 2 months to produce and release a new book video… and it is seldom that there are no setbacks, so it usually takes much longer than this. We currently release an average of 3 to 4 new video books per year, and we’re always trying to increase that number.
