Let's Read, Sing, Learn & Connect!
We are a new YouTube channel that brings books to life with interactive movement, sing-along songs, and connection to the community and world around us!
Let's Read, Sing, Learn & Connect!
We are a new YouTube channel that brings books to life with interactive movement, sing-along songs, and connection to the community and world around us!
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Empowering little readers through stories, songs, and play.
Beyond just entertainment, we help kids grow early literact skills and fall in love with reading as they make real-world connections, soak up postitive messagesm and connect with the books in fun, interactive ways-turning screen time into something everyone can feel good about!
Hello There
Hello Books and Cookies!
Leaning into the success of Books and Cookies, originally a community-centered bookstore in Santa Monica designed to nurture literacy, creativity, and connection for families that evolved into a movement and music-focused storytelling experience, Chudney is enthusiastic to share her love of reading and special way of sharing stories with a worldwide audience!
Hello Chudney!
Chudney Ross is a mom of two, a dynamic storyteller, entrepreneur, advocate for children’s causes, and all-around creative force!
Fostering Early Literacy Through Playful Exploration
"Reading aloud to young children, particularly in an engaging manner, promotes emerging literacy and language development and supports the relationship between child and parent.”
- A review in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
In other words, Hello Friends! will not only entertain your child, but also develop vocabulary, improve the ability to learn to read, and - perhaps most important - foster a lifelong love of books, reading and learning.
Engaging Stories
Movement & Play
Joyful Songs
Connection
Building Connections Through the Magic of Books
Our story time books are carefully curated to share experiences of diverse charecters, inclusive and postive messaging and help children make connections to their real world, because all children deserve to see themselves in the books they read.
Join us in nurturing the next generation of readers and change makers.
Make sure to like, subscribe, and turn on notifications so you never miss a story time! Happy reading!