Picture books aren't just for kids
Meet your hosts
Kimberlee Burt Hendricks
Early childhood educator and advocate
Kimberlee Burt Hendricks is an early childhood educator, entrepreneur, professor, author, speaker, and advocate whose work centers play, family engagement, leadership, and creating meaningful learning experiences for children and the adults who support them.
She is the Founder and Executive Director of A Child’s Space and the creator of A Child’s Space², a reimagined early learning and family engagement concept designed around play, connection, curiosity, and community. She also serves as a Professor at the Erikson Institute for Early Childhood in Chicago, Illinois.
Across her career in education, Kimberlee has worked as a classroom teacher, higher education faculty member, organizational leader, and business owner, bringing a deeply relational approach to each chapter of her work.
A self-proclaimed Edupreneur and known as “The Play and Learn Leader,” Kimberlee brings together education, entrepreneurship, advocacy, and lived experience as a mother of two young children to help families, educators, and communities reimagine what joyful, connected learning can look like.
Meghan Cornwell
Head of Marketing US, Famly
Meghan is the Head of U.S. Marketing at Famly, and brings a decade of experience in early childhood education marketing, with previous roles in childcare nonprofits, B-corps, and as a consultant.
In this Tiny Chair Academy session, Meghan Cornwell talks with early childhood educator and advocate Kimberlee Burt Hendricks about how children's books shape the way we learn and connect. Kimberlee's argument is simple: people, relationships and engagement matter, and picture books can teach adults as much as children. She shares some of her favorite stories and gives a practical framework for bringing them into social-emotional learning.
In this session, you'll learn:
- Books as mirrors, windows and sliding doors. Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop's idea of how stories reflect our own lives, show us other people's, and invite us into new worlds.
- Why children's books aren't only for children. How they ask all of us to notice, engage and reflect.
- Big lessons in favorite classics. What The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Ruth Krauss's The Carrot Seed say about belonging, confidence and nurturing growth when others doubt it.
- The ERA framework (Engage, Reflect, Act). A simple way for educators and caregivers to use stories to support social-emotional learning.
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