Read Me a Story, Ink

Robert Topp
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Family stories perfect for classroom, bedtime, or anytime. Based on my 26 year hobby of reading in public elementary schools, the stories offered here are some of my favorite, kid-tested read-alouds. All stories appear with the permission of the author.

  1. FEB 3

    "Winter's Kiss" by Melissa Marr

    Nesha had within her the kiss of winter so she journeyed north where her curse could do no harm. In the land of the ice bear, what had been a curse was considered a gift because there, weather was warming, threatening their existence.

    17 min

  2. JAN 6

    "Sail by the Moon" by Gretchen Woelfle

    On Chester's eleventh birthday, his father announces that it's time for him to build an iceboat, just as he and his grandfather had before him. Chester is excited to build the craft but is unsure if he has the skill to sail it by himself.

    12 min

  3. 12/04/2025

    "The Button Box: A Story for Christmas" by Melinda Lancaster

    Amy loves to hear the stories connected to each button in her grandma's button box. When her grandma passes away on Christmas Eve, her final present to Amy is already under the Christmas tree – the button box so that Amy can add her own stories.

    8 min

  4. 12/02/2025

    "You Never Call" by Robert Lynn Asprin

    Two commanders, one human, one alien, have been best friends for a lifetime but now find their empires at war and with five minutes left in an ultimatum, five minutes before they blow each other to smithereens, a phone call? "Raymond?" "Mom?" "It's mother's day, you're too busy to call your mother?"

    12 min

  5. 10/21/2025

    "Four Gallant Sisters" by Eric A. Kimmel

    When their mother dies, four sisters disguise themselves as men and find apprenticeships with a tailor, a hunter, a thief and a stargazer. At the end of their apprenticeships, each is given a magic tool. Both the skills and the magic are critical when they are enlisted to save the young king's betrothed and her four brothers from a loathsome dragon.

    11 min

  6. 09/16/2025

    "The Spell Singer: A Tale of Dyslexia, Witches and Spells" by Anna Lewins

    Katherine, a young witch, has dyslexia and can't ever get spells right. But when her friend the garden wizard suggests that she try singing the spells, Katherine succeeds where her classmates failed in charming the Dragon and winning the Dragon's fire to give the village luck.

    23 min

  7. 08/26/2025

    "Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark" by Gary Blackwood

    Mama, Papa and Granny all have peculiar ways of knowing that a big rain is coming – none of them very scientific. But that doesn't stop Papa from building a raft the size of an ark for the great flood of 1908.

    8 min

  8. 07/29/2025

    "My Grandma Can Fly" by Chris Pease.

    When Sarah's grandma was fourteen and living in England, she fell out of the hayloft but never hit the ground. That was the day she discovered she could fly with the help of a little magic leftover from times pasts.

    23 min
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Family stories perfect for classroom, bedtime, or anytime. Based on my 26 year hobby of reading in public elementary schools, the stories offered here are some of my favorite, kid-tested read-alouds. All stories appear with the permission of the author.

Information

  • Creator
    Robert Topp
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    106
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © All recordings copyright by Robert Topp
  • Show Website
    Read Me a Story, Ink