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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Deadly storms have ravaged Mina's homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curses them with death and despair. In an attempt to appease him, each year a beautiful maiden is thrown into the sea to serve as the Sea God's bride, in the hopes that one day the "true bride" will be chosen and end the suffering. Many...
82) Eat, Leo! Eat!
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
On Sunday, Leo and and family gather at Nonna's house for a big lunch. Everyone is hungry--except for Leo. Then Nonna starts telling a story that includes the star-shaped pasta in her soup. The following week, she continues the story with a different kind of pasta, and Leo's appetite for the story--and Nonna's food--grows and grows.
Publisher
August House Publishers
Pub. Date
1994.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A multicultural collection of traditional tales contributed by more than forty of America's most experienced storytellers, with tips for telling the stories.
Author
Publisher
ATD Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
As a trainer, you try to facilitate connections for learners, knowing you must first make connections for yourself. One way to do that is to be a storyteller. But how do you tell stories? How do you find stories to tell? StoryTraining: Selecting and Shaping Stories That Connect explores how to find your stories and deliver them for learners, ultimately strengthening the storyteller you already are. The challenge with storytelling, according to author...
Publisher
Organic Kids Company
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 62 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bringing nature back to nurture. Created by Moms seeking a healthy alternative to cartoons and animation, Organic Kids Company's storyteller DVDs will captivate your child as they participate in the timeless, powerful, and rich oral tradition of storytelling. Your child will be delighted imagining the characters and places of the fables, creating a different experience every time your child participates along with the audience. Storytellers' Favorite...
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marcus's joy over a new pair of shoes prompts his grandfather to tell him a story about Ariba, who has an unusual relationship with a persistent pair of shoes."--Provided by publisher.
Series
Publisher
Sax Media Group
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 45 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Story Watchers Club series is a wonderfull tool that enables parents and teachers to expose kids to global cultures, the sciences, and humorous tales through fun-filled imaginative performances. You will experience that greed will eventually catch up with you ; what goes around comes around, so being nice counts! ; teamwork can be more rewarding than doing it yourself ; you'll never go wrong by doing what's right.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of a sun-drenched summer of his youth, and of the killer that stalked the small New England town. And of the terrible tragedy that forever bonded him with his friends Nat and Harper in unknowable ways. Decades later, Wilder returns to the town in an attempt to recount that summer's events in his memoirs. But as he writes,...
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Gray just wants to be included. But the other colors are always leaving him out. So he decides to create his own project: an all-gray book. Once upon a time, there lived a wolf, a kitten, and a hippo... Gray just knows it's going to be perfect. But as he adds page after page, the Primary and Secondary colors show up...and they aren't quite so complimentary. A book within a book, this colorful tale explores the ideas of fitting in, appreciating others,...
92) Zen ghosts
Author
Series
Zen books (Jon J Muth) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
On Halloween night, Stillwater the giant panda tells Karl, Addy, and Michael a spooky and unusual story. Based on a Zen koan.
93) Toys in space
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A group of toys, left out at night for the first time, begins to be afraid but the WonderDoll distracts them by weaving a story of lost toys, space travel, and a strange alien.
94) Twelve nights
Author
Series
Twelve nights volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their father's mysterious disappearance, Kay and her younger sister Ell set off on an epic quest to find him and, perhaps, to save the world's stories and storytellers, guided by kindly Wraiths.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
97) Sleepy stories
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nicolás asks his very sleepy father to tell story after story and hears of a man who sleeps in his umbrella, another in the sea, and a third in a monkey's cage.
100) The SOS file
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
71 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The students in Mr. Magro's class submit stories for the SOS file about their biggest emergencies, and then they read them aloud for extra credit.
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