Storytime Streams 7/4: America and Stuff

We’re done with Ralph S. Mouse! What did you think of the Mouse and the Motorcycle saga? But this time, storytime is on July 4, which is the USA’s Independence Day. I’m going to try to find something America-ey to read. But also, in New York City anyway, July is Disability Pride Month, and I have a book to read about famous people who had disabilities but didn’t let that stop them from doing great things. Then there’s another thing that I’ve been wanting to read for a long time — remember The Preposterous Adventures of Swimmer (1973), by Alexander Key, about the talking otter who escaped from the scientist who had taught him to talk? Well, Alexander Key also wrote Jagger: the Dog from Elsewhere, an adventure story about a telepathic dog from another dimension, and I think you folks might like it.

Alexander Key information: He also wrote Escape to Witch Mountain, which Disney based 3 movies on, and the first of those had a sequel. He wrote The Incredible Tide, which was adapted in the 1970s into an anime series by Hayao Miyazaki called Future Boy Conan (Miyazaki explored similar themes in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, which he made when he was unable to get permission from Ursula K. LeGuin to make an animated version of her A Wizard of Earthsea; he couldn’t get across to her what he wanted to do because of the language barrier). Key wrote The Forgotten Door, possibly his second most famous book, about a young man with amnesia and strange powers trying to figure out where he’s from. And he wrote other young-adult science fiction, with elements such as kids who didn’t fit in who were on a journey to find a place to belong; wise space aliens who were telepathic, no longer needed weapons, and lived in harmony with nature; and the Cold War fear that humans would one day destroy the Earth with their wars. The Race to the Lonesome Place, The Golden Enemy, and The Magic Meadow are other Key books I’ve read.

The “Early” Stream for our friends in the UK, Europe, etc.: 11 a.m. EDT / 8 a.m. PDT / 4 p.m. BST
The “Late” Stream for our friends in the USA, Canada, etc.: 10 p.m. EDT / 7 p.m. PDT / 3 a.m. (the next day) BST

Location: https://www.liljennie.com/stream

For those who don’t know what this is about, I’m reading children’s books, poems, and other things like that, the kind of books that have lots of pictures and fun stories in them. Sometimes Oscar the Otter pops up and causes otter chaos.

Anyway, I hope to see you there! Well I can’t technically SEE you, but you know what I mean.