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View shopping cart 1. The Business of Writing for Children: An Award-Winning Author's Tips on Writing Children's Books and Publishing Them, or How to Write, Publish, and Promote a Book for Kids from Shepard Publications Price: $10.00 Customer Review: This is an excellent book for aspiring writers who want to publish a children's book, rich with advice and seasoned with experience. I found it to be thorough, honest, and enormously helpful. Not only does it contain all the information I was looking for, but it also contains answers to... more info Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information 2. Beautiful Losers from D.A.P./Iconoclast Price: $26.37 Customer Review: ok- this book is pretty brilliant... despite the fact that the artwork included is a catalogue of some of the most important, interesting and (previously- time will tell??) underground /fringe dwelling artists and contemporary contributors in the last 25 or so years and that in itself is reason... more info Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 3. Stories on Stage: Children's Plays for Readers Theater, With 15 Reader's Theatre Play Scripts From 15 Authors, Including Roald Dahl's The Twits and Louis Sachar's Sideways Stories from Wayside School from Shepard Publications Price: $12.50 Customer Review: This book is formatted so easily, it took me MUCH less time than I thought it would to prepare a unit on reader's theatre for my class. I used it for my high school theatre class so they wouldn't have to concentrate on large vocabularies, but rather to deliver the story in a simple, easy way. It was... more info Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 4. Perfect Pages: Self Publishing with Microsoft Word, or How to Design Your Own Book for Desktop Publishing and Print on Demand (Word 97-2003 for Windows, Word 2004 for Mac) from Shepard Publications Price: $12.50 Customer Review: This slim volume helps a beginning writer to use Word's capabilities to the max. His suggestion to use columns to lay out ones book cover saved me many hours of keyboard abuse. The book is a very quick read, furnishing the writer spot solution for his most common format problems, thereby making the... more info Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information 5. Folktales on Stage: Children's Plays for Readers Theater, with 16 Reader's Theatre Play Scripts from World Folk and Fairy Tales and Legends, Including Asian, African, Middle Eastern, & Native American from Shepard Publications Price: $12.50 Customer Review: Do you want an engaging activity to use with elementary students that fosters reading, performing and listening skills? Aaron Shephard's book is a wonderful resource for K-8 teachers to use in the classroom. This book has a variety of texts adapted for Reader's Theater from all parts of the world.... more info Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 6. The Monkey King: A Superhero Tale of China, Retold from the Journey to the West (Ancient Fantasy) from Skyhook Press Price: $13.50 Customer Review: This is a story about a monkey who was born from a magic boulder, that was bathed in the energies of Earth and Heaven, quickened by the light of the Sun and Moon. He became known as the Monkey King when he wandered into the midst of other monkey's and found them a safe home in a cave behind a... more info Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 7. The Sea King's Daughter: A Russian Legend from Aladdin Price: $10.79 Customer Review: A handsome retelling of this Russian folktale with superb illustrations by Gennady Spirin. A wonderful gift to give for all ages. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information 8. Readers on Stage: Resources for Readers Theater, With Tips, Worksheets, and Reader's Theatre Play Scripts, or How to Do Simple Children's Plays That Build Reading Fluency and Love of Literature from Shepard Publications Price: $12.50 Customer Review: I have been assigned at my school to teach Readers Theater as an enrichment class. I teach 6th grade Social Studies at Gilmer Jr High in Gilmer, Texas. Aaron Shepard's web site has been extremely helpful in getting me started so I purchased his Readers on Stage to get some background. I have only... more info Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 9. Savitri: A Tale of Ancient India from Albert Whitman & Company Price: $11.53 Customer Review: I loved this book because it was anti-thetical to western notions of women as the one's that need to be saved(Think Disney). The woman engages in a journey to find love rather than experience an instantaneous 'aha-I see you and I love you" scenario. My 4-year-old daughter loves the pictures and the... more info Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 10. The Songs of Power: A Finnish Tale of Magic, Retold from the Kalevala (Ancient Fantasy) from Skyhook Press Price: $6.00 Customer Review: The collection of "The Ancient Fantasy" series will take both adults and children into a world of folklore of long ago. In another time and country. My grandson's and myself have been reading this series and we have all enjoyed what we have read so far. We just finished reading "The Songs of Power".... more info Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 11. The Baker's Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale from Aladdin Customer Review: I've been looking for this book to use in my first grade classroom as part of our "December Holidays Around the World" unit but I'm NOT paying upwards of $[...] for it! It's even pricey on Ebay. Hear me oh REPRINT GODS....time to roll this one out again for another run!!! Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 12. The Princess Mouse : A Tale of Finland from Atheneum Price: $12.71 Customer Review: In Finland, it is tradition for men to choose their brides by cutting down a tree and walking in the direction it points until they find their true love. When Mikko, a farmer's son, cuts down his tree, it points into the forest where the only talking being he comes across is a friendly mouse. The... more info Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 13. The Biophilia Hypothesis (A Shearwater book) from Island Press Price: $36.00 Customer Review: This book contains writings and research from several fields, their experts trying to confirm the hypothesis that human beings are naturally drawn to various manifestations of the natural world ("biophilia"). This hypothesis is important not because it can start a new religion or redeem the world,... more info Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 14. The Atlantis Dialogue: Plato's Original Story of the Lost City, Continent, Empire, Civilization from Shepard Publications Price: $8.00 Customer Review: In my quest to obtain and read on the story of Atlantis, I learned that only Plato ever actually wrote about it. That being the case, I went in search of the writings that would allow me to see the original story, and not the convoluted versions handled by the Atlanian Conspiritors. That said, I... more info Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 15. The Adventures of Mouse Deer: Tales of Indonesia and Malaysia (or Indonesian and Malaysian Folktales) from Skyhook Press Price: $8.00 Customer Review: This book is a gold mine of resources for teachers! The Adventures of Mouse Deer has classic folktale characteristics which lend perfectly for teaching this genre. The entertaining storyline is highly motivating for the most reluctant reader. The simple, yet exciting plot make it perfect for... more info Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information 16. Forty Fortunes: A Tale of Iran from Clarion Books Customer Review: This book is colorfully illustrated with lots of funny looking characters and is set in an enchanting city. The book is a pleasant read for kids at bedtime and I recommend it. It was a nice touch to see the page titled "how to say the names" with the phonetic equivalents written next to them -... more info Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information 17. The Magic Brocade: A Tale of China from Pan Asian Publications (USA) Price: $16.95 Click here for more information 18. The Mountain of Marvels: A Celtic Tale of Magic, Retold from the Mabinogion (Ancient Fantasy) from Skyhook Press Price: $6.00 Customer Review: The cover of this book is awesome. I had some trouble pronoucing the names of the people in this book even though the book showed us how to do it. I have to tell you this book is super cool. I liked it when Rhiannon was riding her horse and King Pwyll saw her and rode to meet her. Her horse just... more info Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 19. The Legend of Lightning Larry from Skyhook Press Price: $8.00 Customer Review: The Legend of Lightning Larry is a hit with all my classes. They love to hear the language Shepherd uses and can't wait to see how Larry helps tame the bad guys! Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information 20. Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria from HarperCollins Publishers Customer Review: Foolish Shadusa thinks he's the strongest man in the world and orders his wife to call him "master man". But his wise wife warns him: "Quit your foolish boasting. No matter how strong your are, there will always be someone stronger. And watch out, or someday you may meet him." But Shadusa doesn't... more info Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 21. Aiming at Amazon: The NEW Business of Self Publishing, or How to Publish Books for Profit with Print on Demand by Lightning Source and Book Marketing on Amazon.com from Shepard Publications Customer Review: When I received this book, I sat down and read it cover to cover, running my highlighter over all the key points. Now, I use this book, frequently as a resource. Shepard does a great job of explaining the concepts without being too wordy. It's only about 165 pages, but absolutely filled with... more info Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 22. Lady White Snake: A Tale From Chinese Opera from Pan Asian Publications (USA) Price: $16.95 Customer Review: Lady White and her friend Blue (who are both snakes), decide to leave their residence at Mt. Emei and experience the human world. A young man, Xu Xian, offers the two women the use of his umbrella when it begins to rain, and plans to pick it up from them the following day. After spending the day... more info Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 23. King o' the Cats from Atheneum Price: $13.22 Customer Review: Kristin Sorra's vibrant drawings bring an old English folk story to life in Aaron Shepard's engaging King O The Cats. What kind of intelligence can cats have? Young Peter Black has noticed some strange things happening among the local cats lately; but nobody will believe his wild tale. His... more info Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 24. Robin Hood (Graphic Revolve) from Stone Arch Books Price: $6.95 Click here for more information 25. The Enchanted Storks: A Tale of Bagdad from Clarion Books Customer Review: An adaptation of a Middle Eastern folk legend, The Enchanted Storks relates the story of a wicked vizier who dupes the Calif into buying snuff boxes that turn the Calif and others into storks. Who or what will it take to release them from this spell? A great joy to be found in this book is in... more info Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 26. The Legend of Slappy Hooper: An American Tall Tale from Atheneum Click here for more information 27. The Princess Mouse from Simon & Schuster Children's Click here for more information 28. The Gifts of Wali Dad: A Tale of India and Pakistan from Atheneum Customer Review: Wali Dad is my all-time favorite of Aaron's books for children (and they are all a close race!). The comic book style and quality of the illustrations are a pure delight, and the story telling is true and compelling. Do not miss the joy of reading this book to yourself and to any children you know. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 29. The Magic Flyswatter: A Superhero Tale of Africa, Retold from the Mwindo Epic from Skyhook Press Price: $15.00 Customer Review: I really enjoyed this book. I really, really liked this book. It is always interesting to read stories that kids from another part of the world grew up hearing about. Every culture has their own brand of folklore that has been passed down through the generations. This one is so different from... more info Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 30. One-Eye! Two-Eyes! Three-Eyes!: A Very Grimm Fairy Tale from Atheneum Price: $13.22 Customer Review: Little One Eye, Two Eyes, and Three Eyes was always one of my favorite fairy tales when I was growing up, so seeing it in its own picture book was just heaven to me. And this version lives up to the one I grew up with, too. Little Two-Eyes is despised by her sisters for being "different"... more info Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information 1 - 30 Portions © Amazon.com, Inc.

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