Aaron’s Genre Index

Folktales & Legends | Sacred Stories & Myths
World Classics | Original Stories | Poetry

Here is a genre guide to Aaron Shepard’s stories and scripts, both online and off. Use it to quickly locate works in specific genres. All listed works by other authors have been adapted by Aaron.

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Folktales & Legends

General

The Princess Mouse: A Tale of Finland

ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater | Storytelling

BOOKS—Picture Book | Folktales on Stage

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 Gifts of Wali Dad: A Tale of India and Pakistan

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

BOOKS—Picture Book | Folktales on Stage

AUDIO—A People With One Heart, by Mike Pinder

The Crystal Heart: A Vietnamese Legend

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

BOOKS—Picture Book | Folktales on Stage

Forty Fortunes: A Tale of Iran

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

BOOKS—Picture Book | Folktales on Stage

AUDIO—Wisdom and Luck, by Sarah Saulter

Master Maid: A Tale of Norway

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

BOOKS—Picture Book | Folktales on Stage

The Enchanted Storks: A Tale of Bagdad

ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater | Storytelling

BOOKS—Picture Book | Folktales on Stage

AUDIO—Wisdom and Luck, by Sarah Saulter

Quackling

ONLINE—Story

Lars, My Lad!: A Tale of Sweden

ONLINE—Story

The Calabash Kids: A Tale of Tanzania

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

BOOKS—Folktales on Stage

The Four Puppets: A Tale of Burma

ONLINE—Story

The Magic of Mushkil Gusha: A Tale of Iran

ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater

Kings for Breakfast!: A Hindu Legend

ONLINE—Story

Mop Top: A Tale of Norway

ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater | Storytelling

The Millionaire Miser: A Buddhist Legend

ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater | Reader’s Theater (Traditional Chinese)

When the Twins Went to War: A Fable of Far East Russia

ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater | Storytelling

The Wings of the Butterfly: A Tale of the Amazon Rainforest

ONLINE—Story

Too-too-moo and the Giant: A Tale of Indonesia

ONLINE—Story

Tall Tales

Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria

ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater | Storytelling

BOOKS—Picture Book | Folktales on Stage

STAGE—If You Give a Mouse a Cookie & Other Story Books, produced by TheatreworksUSA

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 Master of Masters: A Tale of Norway

ONLINE—Story

The Giant’s Wife: A Tall Tale of Ireland

Told by William Carleton

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

Talk

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

BOOKS—Stories on Stage

Trickster Tales

The Adventures of Mouse Deer: Tales of Indonesia and Malaysia

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

BOOKS—Early Reader | Folktales on Stage

How Frog Went to Heaven: A Tale of Angola

ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater | Reader’s Theater (Traditional Chinese)

The Wicked Girl: A Tale of Turkey

ONLINE—Story | Storytelling

Supernatural Tales

King o’ the Cats

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

BOOKS—Picture Book

The Boy Who Wanted the Willies

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

BOOKS—Folktales on Stage

The Boy Who Drew Cats: A Tale of Japan

ONLINE—Story

The Story Spirits: A Tale of Korea

ONLINE—Story

Mouse Woman and the Snails

By Christie Harris
From Mouse Woman and the Vanished Princesses

Note: This script was previously called “The Princess and the Snails.”

BOOKS—Stories on Stage

Cinderella Tales

One-Eye! Two-Eyes! Three-Eyes!: A Very Grimm Fairy Tale

Note: “Two-Eyes” is the original title of this story.

ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater | Storytelling

BOOKS—Picture Book

The Hidden One: A Native American Legend

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

BOOKS—Folktales on Stage

Noodle Tales

I Know What I Know: A Tale of Denmark

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

Legends

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

The Lady of Stavoren: A Dutch Legend

Note: “The Most Precious Thing in the World” is the shorter version of this story.

ONLINE—Story | Story (Shorter)

The Harvest That Never Came: A Swedish Legend

ONLINE—Story

Sacred Stories & Myths

Myths | Traditions | Parables

Myths

Savitri: A Tale of Ancient India

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

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

MUSIC—Savitri, by 2002

Traditions

The Prince Who Had Everything: The Legend of the Buddha

ONLINE—Story

Abraham and the Idols: An Islamic Legend

ONLINE—Story

The Stone in the Temple: An Islamic Legend

ONLINE—Story

Parables

How Violence Is Ended: A Buddhist Legend

ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater | Storytelling

World Classics

Hero Tales | Fantasy Classics | Supernatural Classics

Hero Tales

The Magic Flyswatter: A Superhero Tale of Africa

Note: “No Sons!” is the shorter version of this story.

ONLINE—Story | Story (Shorter)

BOOKS—Mini-Novel

The Monkey King: A Superhero Tale of China

Note: Monkey is the title of the original published version of this story. “Monkey Lives!” is an excerpt.

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

BOOKS—Mini-Novel

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

Lohengrin: The Tale of the Swan Knight

ONLINE—Story

Fantasy Classics

The Mountain of Marvels: A Celtic Tale of Magic

Note: “Lady of Marvels” is the shorter version of this story.

ONLINE—Story | Story (Shorter)

BOOKS—Mini-Novel

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

Lady White Snake: A Tale From Chinese Opera

ONLINE—Story

BOOKS—Picture Book

VIDEO—Lady White Snake, Pan Asian

Supernatural Classics

The Man Who Sang to Ghosts: A Japanese Legend

ONLINE—Story

BOOKS—13 Scary Ghost Stories, edited by Marianne Carus

Original Stories

Original Tall Tales

The Legend of Lightning Larry

ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater | Storytelling

BOOKS—Early Reader | Picture Book | Readers on Stage | Stories on Stage

Help! Hilary! Help!

ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater

McBroom’s Fourth of July

By Sid Fleischman
From McBroom’s Almanac

BOOKS—Stories on Stage (1st Edition)

Original Fables

Earth Shake! House Break!

ONLINE—Story

More Than a Match

ONLINE—Story | Reader’s Theater | Storytelling

Nonny and the Dragon

ONLINE—Story

Mr. Bim’s Bamboo

By Carol Farley

BOOKS—Stories on Stage

The War Prayer

By Mark Twain

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

Jumping Mouse

By Hyemeyohsts Storm
From Seven Arrows

BOOKS—Stories on Stage (1st Edition)

Original Fairy Tales

Count Alaric’s Lady

By Barbara Leonie Picard
From Selected Fairy Tales

ONLINE—Reader’s Theater

Westwoods

By Eleanor Farjeon
From The Little Bookroom

BOOKS—Stories on Stage

Millions of Cats

By Wanda Gag

BOOKS—Stories on Stage

Original “Folktales”

The Jade Stone: A Chinese Folktale

By Caryn Yacowitz

BOOKS—Stories on Stage

The Devil and Mother Crump

By Valerie Scho Carey

BOOKS—Stories on Stage (1st Edition)

Humor

Skeeter and the Weasels

Note: For the sequel to this story, see “Skeeter Saves the World.”

ONLINE—Story

Skeeter Saves the World

Note: This is the sequel to “Skeeter and the Weasels.”

ONLINE—Story

Peddler Polly and the Story Stealer

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

BOOKS—Readers on Stage

Three Sideways Stories From Wayside School

By Louis Sachar
From Sideways Stories from Wayside School

ONLINE—Reader’s Theater

BOOKS—Stories on Stage

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

Harriet

By Florence Parry Heide
From Tales for the Perfect Child

BOOKS—Stories on Stage

Mr. Twit’s Revenge

By Roald Dahl
From The Twits

BOOKS—Stories on Stage

The Kid from the Commercial

By Stephen Manes
From It’s New! It’s Improved! It’s Terrible!

BOOKS—Stories on Stage

Tapiwa’s Uncle

By Nancy Farmer
From Do You Know Me

BOOKS—Stories on Stage

Fantasy

Timothy Tolliver and the Bully Basher

BOOKS—Chapter Book

The Borrower and the Boy

By Mary Norton
From The Borrowers

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

The Bean Boy

By Monica Shannon
From California Fairy Tales

BOOKS—Stories on Stage

Captain Cully

By Peter Beagle
From The Last Unicorn

ONLINE—Reader’s Theater

BOOKS—Stories on Stage (1st Edition)

Death’s Dominion

By Piers Anthony
From On a Pale Horse

BOOKS—Stories on Stage (1st Edition)

Science Fiction

Resthaven

By Nancy Farmer
From The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

ONLINE—Reader’s Theater