Aaron Shepard
Aaron’s Activity Index

Here is an activity guide to Aaron Shepard’s stories and scripts, both online and off. Use it to quickly locate works featuring a specific activity—art, craft, trade, or other. All listed works by other authors have been adapted by Aaron.

Note: Links to online formats or book info take you to different parts of this or an associated site.


The Sea King’s Daughter: A Russian Legend

ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |

BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Coloring Book | | Folktales on Stage |

MUSIC — | Lateral Lines (Bruce Paine) |


The Songs of Power: A Northern Tale of Magic

Note: The Maiden of Northland is the picture book version of this story. “The Battle of Song” is an excerpt.

ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) | | Storytelling |

BOOKS — | Mini-Novel | | Picture Book |


The Crystal Heart: A Vietnamese Legend

ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |

BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Folktales on Stage |


The Legend of Slappy Hooper: An American Tall Tale

ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) | | Storytelling |

BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Folktales on Stage |

AUDIO — | The Legend of Slappy Hooper |


The Boy Who Drew Cats: A Tale of Japan

ONLINE — | Story |


Three Sideways Stories From Wayside School

By Louis Sachar
From Sideways Stories from Wayside School

ONLINE — | Reader’s Theater |

BOOKS — | Stories on Stage |


The Jade Stone: A Chinese Folktale

By Caryn Yacowitz

BOOKS — | Stories on Stage |


Westwoods

By Eleanor Farjeon
From The Little Bookroom

BOOKS — | Stories on Stage |


Peddler Polly and the Story Stealer

ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |

BOOKS — | Readers on Stage |


The Story Spirits: A Tale of Korea

ONLINE — | Story |


The Man Who Sang to Ghosts: A Japanese Legend

ONLINE — | Story |

BOOKS — | Mini-Novel | | 13 Scary Ghost Stories |


McBroom’s Fourth of July

By Sid Fleischman
From McBroom’s Almanac

BOOKS — | Stories on Stage (1st Edition) |


The Four Puppets: A Tale of Burma

ONLINE — | Story |


The Magic Brocade: A Tale of China

ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |

BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Folktales on Stage |


The Princess Mouse: A Tale of Finland

ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Storytelling |

BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Folktales on Stage |


The Baker’s Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale

ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) | | Reader’s Theater (Spanish) | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |

BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Picture Book (Spanish) | | Coloring Book | | Readers on Stage | | Folktales on Stage |


Kings for Breakfast!: A Hindu Legend

ONLINE — | Story |


Tapiwa’s Uncle

By Nancy Farmer
From Do You Know Me

BOOKS — | Stories on Stage |


The Giant’s Wife: A Tall Tale of Ireland

Told by William Carleton

ONLINE — | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) |


The Devil and Mother Crump

By Valerie Scho Carey

BOOKS — | Stories on Stage (1st Edition) |


The Harvest That Never Came: A Swedish Legend

ONLINE — | Story |


Talk

By Harold Courlander & George Herzog
From The Cow‑Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories

BOOKS — | Stories on Stage |


Earth Shake! House Break!

ONLINE — | Story |


The Stone in the Temple: An Islamic Legend

ONLINE — | Story |


The Fools of Chelm

By Steve Sanfield
From The Feather Merchants, and Other Tales of the Fools of Chelm

BOOKS — | Stories on Stage |


Casey at the Bat

By Ernest Lawrence Thayer

ONLINE — | Reader’s Theater |


How Tom Beat Captain Najork

By Russell Hoban

Note: This script was previously called “How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen.”

BOOKS — | Stories on Stage |




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