Dino-Soccer

Dinosaurs face off in prehistoric sports competitions―from baseball to wrestling and every sport in between! Will the plant-eaters become the champions? Or will the meat-eaters be victorious? Today on Story Time with Darlene, listen to the story “Dino-Soccer” written...

Food

Subject: Food Fast and Delicious Mexican Meals by Alice Guadalupe Tapp and California Soul by Keith Corbin Our reader remembers tasting the most glorious fresh corn tamales in San Diego in 1975. He has been hunting for them ever since. His search led him to these two...

John Steinbeck

Subject John Steinbeck Flight, a short story For centuries Big Sur residents spoke of “The Dark Watchers.” John Steinbeck grew up in Salinas and spoke of them in this short story.  In the tale a teenage Indigenous Mexican American boy kills a man and is forced to flee...

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Join a father and his four young children as they cross a field of tall, wavy grass, wade through a deep, cold river, struggle through swampy mud, find their way through a big, dark forest, fight through a whirling snowstorm, and enter finally enter a narrow, gloomy...