"When you read aloud a good story to children, you're getting a response," Wu said.
Wu, a children's librarian for 17 years, understands how an engaging story can capture the interest of a young child. Together, children and parents cut out pictures of rabbits and then group them in different ways to add up to 11. "Run, fat rabbits! Run, run, run! That fox wants to eat you, one by one! Dinnertime!"Ĭhildren lean forward on the floor of Bothell Library, enthralled as children's librarian Mie-Mie Wu brings to life Sue Williams' tale of a hungry fox on the prowl.Īfter singing a counting song and listening to Wu read Eve Merriam's "12 Ways to Get to 11," the children are joined on the floor by their parents. Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion.Bringing math and science to story timeīringing math and science to story time Menu.Merriam died on Apin Manhattan from liver cancer. She later married screenwriter Waldo Salt and was actress Jennifer Salt's stepmother. She was married for a time to writer Leonard C. from the Cornell University in 1937, Merriam moved to New York to pursue graduate studies at Columbia University. Personal lifeīorn as Eve Moskovitz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her play Out of Our Father's House, based on her book Growing Up Female in America, was televised in the Great Performances series in 1978. One of her books for children is Halloween ABC. In 1981 she won the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. In 1956 she published Emma Lazarus: Woman with a Torch. It inspired a 1971 Broadway musical called Inner City and a 1982 musical production called Street Dreams. Her book, The Inner City Mother Goose, was described as one of the most banned books of the time. Merriam's first book was the 1946 Family Circle, which won the Yale Younger Poets Prize.
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