Storytime at Bedtime

Get under your blanket and get cozy as BATC’s Board of Directors, students, artists, and friends bring you a new video series where they read you and your little one bedtime stories.  Storytime at Bedtime provides a respite for parents and moments where children and adults can enjoy some downtime by looking and listening to BATC volunteers reading literature. This program also offers relief for older siblings who spend weeks assisting their younger siblings with classwork while their frontline parents are on the job. This online resource is the brainchild of BATC board member Emma Rodgers.

Want to join in and become a part of Storytime at Bedtime? Check down below on guidelines on how to record and submit!

• Too Much Talk by Angela Shelf Medearis and illustrated by Stefano Vitale is being read by board member Emma Rodgers.
• I Love My Hair! by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley and illustrated by E.B. Lewis is being read by board member Emma Rodgers.
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd is being read by board member Emma Rodgers.
• How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague is being read by former summer theater camp student DJ Big Blue.
• Love You Forever by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Sheila Mc Graw is being read by board member Vicky Daneman.
• Wide-Mouthed Frog by Keith Faulkner and illustrated by Jonathan Lambert is being read by board member Grandpa Scott.
• Corduroy, written and illustrated by Don Freeman, is being read by board member Grandpa Scott.
• Tikki Tikki Tembo, written by Arlene Morsel and illustrated by Blair Lent is being read by board member Grandpa Scott.
• Froggy Va al Medico by Jonathan London and illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz is being read by summer camp parent Coach J.C.
• Barack by Jonah Winter and illustrated by AG Ford is being read by former summer camp student Big A.
• Ten Tiny Babies written and illustrated by Karen Katz is being read by DeeDee.
• Time for Bed by Mem Fox and illustrated by Jane Dyer is being read by GG.
• Ish written and illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds is being read by former summer camp student JohnAqua1056.
• Firefly and the Little Star, illustrated by Emily Zieroth, is being read by author and teaching artist Oba William King.
• Too Much Talk, illustrated by Stefano Vitale, is being read by author Angela Shelf Medearis.
• Dinner in the Bathtub, illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers, is being read by author Angela Shelf Medearis.
• The Ghost of Sifty-Sifty Sam, illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers, is being read by author Angela Shelf Medearis.
• The Biggest Snowball Fight, illustrated by Jackie Snider, is being read by author Angela Shelf Medearis.
• The Giving Tree written by Shel Silverstein is being read by Auntie Ruthy.
• Bedtime for Little Bears by David Bedford and illustrated by Caroline Pedler is being read by Board Member Ann Rowe.
• How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague is being read by board member Mayela Calvillo.
• Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale by Marcus Pfister is being read by Team Learn2Excel.
• Tales of Wisdom & Wonder by Hugh Lupton and illustrated by Niamh Sharkey is being read by Team Learn2Excel.
• Sisters, written and illustrated by David McPhail, is being read by Learn2Excel.
• Expressway by Justus L. Clark is read by the City of Dallas.
• The Giving Season by Matt Faulkner, is being read by Angeline D’Balentine, both from Michigan.
• What’s at the Park by David Mann and Jess Jardim-Wedepohl, is being read by Dyamond Johnson.
• We Share Everything by Robert Munsh and illustrated by Michael Martchenko, is being read by Pharmacy Technician and Medical Admin Clemeil Lewis.
• It’s Church Going Time, illustrated by Peter Ambushis, is being read by author Wade Hudson.
• Bright Eyes, Brown Skin, illustrated by George Ford, is being read by author Cheryl Willis Hudson.
• Fancy Nancy: It’s Backwards Day! by Jane O’Connor and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser is being read by Elise from the LOHS Key Club.
• The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen and illustrated by Vilhelm Pedersen is being read by LOHS Key Club Member Isabelle Pinto.
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves by Antoine Galland is being read by LOHS Key Club Member Isabelle Pinto.
• The Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor by Gyula Krúdy is being read by LOHS Key Club Member Isabelle Pinto.
• Panchatantra by Vishnu Sharma is being read by LOHS Key Club Member Isabelle Pinto.
• Green Eggs & Ham by Dr. Seuss is being read by LOHS Key Club Member Isabelle Pinto.
• Dragons by T. Albert is being read by LOHS Key Club Member Emily Wang.
• Clam I Am by Tish Rabe and illustrated by Aristides Ruiz is being read by LOHS Key Club Member Isabelle Pinto.
• Are We There Yet by Dan Santat is being read by LOHS Key Club Member Leyan Jiang.
• The Crows and the Black Snake from Panchatantra is being read by LOHS Key Club Member Isabelle Pinto.
• Hide and Seek is being read by LOHS Key Club Member Leyan Jiang.
• Too Much Candy by ELF Learning is being read by LOHS Key Club Member Leyan Jiang.

Thank you so much for your interest in recording a video for our Storytime at Bedtime series. We appreciate it so much and cannot wait to see your video! We encourage any and all languages and books suitable for children. If you didn’t know, Storytime At Bedtime is an online resource for parents in response to COVID-19. It is the brainchild of Bishop Arts Theatre Center board member Emma Rodgers. Below are guidelines to record and submit your video.

Click here for a great example of how to record a video for Storytime at Bedtime.

What You Need:

• A camera. It can be the one you have on your phone or a professional camera – or in between! If you’re recording on your phone, your orientation should be landscape, not portrait.
• Great lighting. We want to not only be able to see you but the book you’re holding as well.
• Clear audio. Keep background noise to a minimum if you can. If you have a microphone you can use – even better!
• A book! To view our previously read books, please look above. We ask that the book is suitable for children and does not feature any inappropriate words.
• And last but not least – you! Position yourself in front of your camera clearly with the book in your hands. We strongly recommend showing the book to the camera, just as if you were reading a book to a group of children. A different way to show the book is to scan and edit the pages in if you would like to do so. Click here for a great example.

How to Submit:

• Please send your videos to samantha@bishopartstheatre.org.
• There are multiple ways to send the video to us! We strongly recommend using Dropbox or Google Drive to send us your videos to make it as easy as possible for both sides. There are also sites like WeTransfer that you can use for free as well.
• And you’re done! As soon as our editors’ edit and the video is uploaded to our Youtube, we will notify you by email and send you a link.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Samantha Anderson at samantha@bishopartstheatre.org, or call BATC Monday through Friday during our business hours of 9AM – 5PM.