Author: Robin Moore
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A series of stories describes the tall tale adventures of a boy and his grandfather with some of the creatures living near their home in central Pennsylvania.
The Cherry Tree Buck, and Other Stories
Author: Robin Moore
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A series of stories describes the tall tale adventures of a boy and his grandfather with some of the creatures living near their home in central Pennsylvania.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A series of stories describes the tall tale adventures of a boy and his grandfather with some of the creatures living near their home in central Pennsylvania.
More Ready-to-tell Tales from Around the World
Author: David Holt
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874835830
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A multicultural collection of traditional tales contributed by experienced storytellers, with tips for telling the stories.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874835830
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A multicultural collection of traditional tales contributed by experienced storytellers, with tips for telling the stories.
Appalachian Children's Literature
Author:
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786460199
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This comprehensive bibliography includes books written about or set in Appalachia from the 18th century to the present. Titles represent the entire region as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission, including portions of 13 states stretching from southern New York to northern Mississippi. The bibliography is arranged in alphabetical order by author, and each title is accompanied by an annotation, most of which include composite reviews and critical analyses of the work. All classic genres of children's literature are represented.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786460199
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This comprehensive bibliography includes books written about or set in Appalachia from the 18th century to the present. Titles represent the entire region as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission, including portions of 13 states stretching from southern New York to northern Mississippi. The bibliography is arranged in alphabetical order by author, and each title is accompanied by an annotation, most of which include composite reviews and critical analyses of the work. All classic genres of children's literature are represented.
Lost in the Woods
Author: Robin Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781729069714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Follow Author and Storyteller Robin Moore back to his boyhood home in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania, where he and his grandfather spent their days on the thickly-forested woods, exploring the beauty and mystery of the natural world.From the Introduction: The first really valuable thing I lost in the woods was a Barlow pocket knife. It was a knife my grandfather had given me for my eighth birthday. As he handed it to me, he said, "I guess you're old enough to have this now." But I wasn't. I had the knife less than a week before I lost it. I'll never know for sure how it got lost. One moment I had it, then it was gone. As soon as I knew the knife was missing, I wondered if I really was old enough to have such a fine possession. Fighting back tears of frustration, I remember hunting for that knife, going down on my hands and knees and searching through the leaves in the woods near our house. But I never found it. It's probably still laying out there somewhere, its bone handle dulled by the weather, its blade rusted the color of leaves in Autumn. Since then, I have lost many things in the woods: hats and gloves, wrist watches, flashlights and compasses. But probably the thing I miss the most is the loss of the woods themselves. When I was a boy, growing up in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania, I lived right across the road from my grandfather's house, just outside the town of Roopsburg. In those days, the woods and fields of the Appalachian foothills were still free and wild. And my grandfather and I spent as much time as we could out and away from civilization, roaming through the wild world. But nowadays, many of the places where I dreamed and played aren't wild anymore. They have been chopped up into neat yards with large houses, surrounded by wooden fences enclosing plastic swing sets. Even worse, some of our favorite places have been taken by highways and parking lots and shopping malls. The wildness of those places has been lost, at least for the next hundred years or so, until the woods comes back to reclaim them. But, as every storyteller knows, nothing is really lost as long as it lingers in the imagination. So come along with me now, and I'll take you back to some of my favorite wild spots and tell you a little about the sad and wonderful things that happened there...Author Biography: Robin Moore is an award-winning author and storyteller who has written more than a dozen books about the History and Folklore of the Pennsylvania Mountains, where his family has lived for more than 200 years. He has given more than 5,000 programs and workshops at schools. libraries, museums and festivals and has told stories to more than a million people. He served as a combat soldier in Vietnam, earned a Journalism Degree from Pennsylvania State University and worked as a newspaper reporter and magazine editor before beginning his career as a children's book author and traveling storyteller in 1981. He was named Storyteller of the Year and Author of the Year by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association. He holds a Master's Degree in Oral Traditions and is Program Coordinator for the Writing and Oral Traditions Program at The Graduate Institute. In addition to being published by HarperCollins, Random House and Simon & Schuster, he is owner of Groundhog Press, a small independent publishing house which produces books and recordings celebrating the oral tradition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781729069714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Follow Author and Storyteller Robin Moore back to his boyhood home in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania, where he and his grandfather spent their days on the thickly-forested woods, exploring the beauty and mystery of the natural world.From the Introduction: The first really valuable thing I lost in the woods was a Barlow pocket knife. It was a knife my grandfather had given me for my eighth birthday. As he handed it to me, he said, "I guess you're old enough to have this now." But I wasn't. I had the knife less than a week before I lost it. I'll never know for sure how it got lost. One moment I had it, then it was gone. As soon as I knew the knife was missing, I wondered if I really was old enough to have such a fine possession. Fighting back tears of frustration, I remember hunting for that knife, going down on my hands and knees and searching through the leaves in the woods near our house. But I never found it. It's probably still laying out there somewhere, its bone handle dulled by the weather, its blade rusted the color of leaves in Autumn. Since then, I have lost many things in the woods: hats and gloves, wrist watches, flashlights and compasses. But probably the thing I miss the most is the loss of the woods themselves. When I was a boy, growing up in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania, I lived right across the road from my grandfather's house, just outside the town of Roopsburg. In those days, the woods and fields of the Appalachian foothills were still free and wild. And my grandfather and I spent as much time as we could out and away from civilization, roaming through the wild world. But nowadays, many of the places where I dreamed and played aren't wild anymore. They have been chopped up into neat yards with large houses, surrounded by wooden fences enclosing plastic swing sets. Even worse, some of our favorite places have been taken by highways and parking lots and shopping malls. The wildness of those places has been lost, at least for the next hundred years or so, until the woods comes back to reclaim them. But, as every storyteller knows, nothing is really lost as long as it lingers in the imagination. So come along with me now, and I'll take you back to some of my favorite wild spots and tell you a little about the sad and wonderful things that happened there...Author Biography: Robin Moore is an award-winning author and storyteller who has written more than a dozen books about the History and Folklore of the Pennsylvania Mountains, where his family has lived for more than 200 years. He has given more than 5,000 programs and workshops at schools. libraries, museums and festivals and has told stories to more than a million people. He served as a combat soldier in Vietnam, earned a Journalism Degree from Pennsylvania State University and worked as a newspaper reporter and magazine editor before beginning his career as a children's book author and traveling storyteller in 1981. He was named Storyteller of the Year and Author of the Year by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association. He holds a Master's Degree in Oral Traditions and is Program Coordinator for the Writing and Oral Traditions Program at The Graduate Institute. In addition to being published by HarperCollins, Random House and Simon & Schuster, he is owner of Groundhog Press, a small independent publishing house which produces books and recordings celebrating the oral tradition.
The Monster and Other Stories
Author: Stephen Crane
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
A collection of three short novellas by the famous writer Stephen Crane, 'The Monster and Other Stories' was first published in the year 1899. These stories are written for children and has elements of ghosts, monsters and horror.
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
A collection of three short novellas by the famous writer Stephen Crane, 'The Monster and Other Stories' was first published in the year 1899. These stories are written for children and has elements of ghosts, monsters and horror.
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories
Author: Stephen Crane
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199552541
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This edition explores Crane's work from a fresh critical perspective and introduces new research on the imaginative relationship between Crane's novel and the Civil War. (Quelle: Buchdeckel verso).
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199552541
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This edition explores Crane's work from a fresh critical perspective and introduces new research on the imaginative relationship between Crane's novel and the Civil War. (Quelle: Buchdeckel verso).
Literature and the Child
Author: Bernice E. Cullinan
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
With a slender design and appealing art, Cullinan and Galda present a thought provoking discussion on how children can read to respond, read to learn, and read to enjoy. This text provides evaluation criteria for selecting superior children's books, rather than listing thousands of titles and synopses. Booklists direct readers to quality literature, and extended discussions of selected titles demonstrate the selection criteria. Multicultural literature is discussed throughout the text, with a separate chapter on more specific multicultural issues. Numerous teaching ideas, many of which are contributed by classroom teachers, provide practical applications. This is a book for teachers, stressing the use of good books in a literature based curriculum.
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
With a slender design and appealing art, Cullinan and Galda present a thought provoking discussion on how children can read to respond, read to learn, and read to enjoy. This text provides evaluation criteria for selecting superior children's books, rather than listing thousands of titles and synopses. Booklists direct readers to quality literature, and extended discussions of selected titles demonstrate the selection criteria. Multicultural literature is discussed throughout the text, with a separate chapter on more specific multicultural issues. Numerous teaching ideas, many of which are contributed by classroom teachers, provide practical applications. This is a book for teachers, stressing the use of good books in a literature based curriculum.
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Teacup Ministry and Other Stories
Author: Rhoda H. Halperin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788479
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In the global world of the twenty-first century, class boundaries are subtle and permeable, though real nonetheless. Markers of identity, authenticity, and belonging can change with a gesture or a glance, making people feel they do or don't belong in certain places, with certain people, at certain times. In these powerfully written ethnographic stories, Rhoda Halperin maps the boundaries of class by examining three themes: crossing class boundaries, class creativity, and class vulnerability. In telling these stories, Halperin draws on a wealth of ethnographic experiences in this country and abroad. Her book challenges class stereotypes in ways that touch on universals across cultures and over time.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788479
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In the global world of the twenty-first century, class boundaries are subtle and permeable, though real nonetheless. Markers of identity, authenticity, and belonging can change with a gesture or a glance, making people feel they do or don't belong in certain places, with certain people, at certain times. In these powerfully written ethnographic stories, Rhoda Halperin maps the boundaries of class by examining three themes: crossing class boundaries, class creativity, and class vulnerability. In telling these stories, Halperin draws on a wealth of ethnographic experiences in this country and abroad. Her book challenges class stereotypes in ways that touch on universals across cultures and over time.
Storytelling Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description