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Music | Drawing & Painting | Sculpture
Writing | Storytelling | Puppetry
Spinning & Weaving | Cooking & Baking
Farming & Gardening | Building | SportsHere 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.
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Music
The Sea King’s Daughter: A Russian Legend
ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater | Reader’s Theater (Traditional Chinese) | Storytelling
BOOKS—Picture Book | Folktales on Stage
MUSIC—Lateral Lines, by Bruce Paine
The Songs of Power: A Finnish 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 (Traditional Chinese) | Storytelling
BOOKS—Picture Book | Folktales on Stage
Drawing & Painting
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, and Other Stories, by Cindy Killavey
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 SchoolONLINE—Reader’s Theater
BOOKS—Stories on Stage
Sculpture
The Jade Stone: A Chinese Folktale
By Caryn Yacowitz
BOOKS—Stories on Stage
Writing
Westwoods
By Eleanor Farjeon
From The Little BookroomBOOKS—Stories on Stage
Storytelling
Peddler Polly and the Story Stealer
ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater | Reader’s Theater (Traditional 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—13 Scary Ghost Stories, edited by Marianne Carus
McBroom’s Fourth of July
By Sid Fleischman
From McBroom’s Almanac
Puppetry
The Four Puppets: A Tale of Burma
ONLINE—Story
Spinning & Weaving
The Magic Brocade: A Tale of China
ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater | Reader’s Theater (Team) | Reader’s Theater (Traditional 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
Cooking & Baking
The Baker’s Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale
ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater | Reader’s Theater (Team) | Reader’s Theater (Spanish) | Reader’s Theater (Traditional Chinese) | Storytelling
BOOKS—Picture 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 MeBOOKS—Stories on Stage
The Giant’s Wife: A Tall Tale of Ireland
Told by William Carleton
ONLINE—Reader’s Theater (Standard | Reader’s Theater (Team)
The Devil and Mother Crump
By Valerie Scho Carey
Farming & Gardening
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 StoriesBOOKS—Stories on Stage
Building
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 ChelmBOOKS—Stories on Stage
Sports
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