Cinderlily
Cinderlily

Author: David Ellwand

Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780763623289

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Where have all the flowers gone? They’re dancing up a storm in this whimsical, wondrous rendition of a well-known fairy tale, created by the one and only David Ellwand. For hours beneath the velvet sky they dance without a care, Until the clock chimes midnight . . . then she’s no longer there! Just a single lily petal and her fragrance in the air. One magic night, a poor cinder girl is granted an impossible wish. It may be the most familiar of tales, but under the inimitable wand of David Ellwand, this timeless story blooms as never before. Here, the innocent heroine is a delicate flower, a lily whose faded petals spring to new life as she arrives at the Sultan’s ball in a butterfly-drawn coach. When the smitten Prince sets out in search of the shy, retiring flower who has vanished into thin air, leaving but a petal behind, it’s clear that Cinderlily’s comically garish, pansy-faced stepsisters won’t stand a chance. With singular vision, humor, and a touch of computer magic, David Ellwand directs a delightfully expressive cast of flowers in a breathtaking production sure to enchant lovers of fairy tales - and lovers of flowers, too.

Sirens: Collected Papers on Women in Fantasy 2012-2015
Sirens: Collected Papers on Women in Fantasy 2012-2015

Author: Narrate Conferences, Inc.

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-08-27

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0982680724

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Sirens: Collected Papers on Women in Fantasy 2012-2015 combines written versions of presentations from four years of Sirens, a conference on women in fantasy literature. During those years, presenters were encouraged to analyze tales retold, hauntings, and rebels and revolutionaries, among other topics. Presentations for Sirens were chosen by vetting boards made up of scholars, professionals, and readers. Following each year's conference, presenters were invited to submit text versions of their presentations for the Sirens compendium, and a sample of each year's programming is represented.

Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time

Author: Judy Freeman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2007-10-30

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 031309568X

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Judy Freeman, author of the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, gives practical how-to tips on how to tell a story, and write and stage a Reader's Theater script that gets children involved with creative drama. Reader's theater teaches children how to become better listeners, enriches their thinking skills, and encourages their response to literature. Included are ideas on using folk and fairy tales, songs, chants and nonsense rhymes, and a reader's theater script. Also included in this handbook are 400 plus annotated children's books every storyteller should know, 100 great titles for creative drama and reader's theatre and professional books and Web sites for storytelling, creative drama and reader's theater. Grades PreK-6. Judy Freeman, author of the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, gives personal and practical how-to tips on how to learn and tell a story, how to act out a story using creative drama, and how to write and stage a Reader's Theater script. All are guaranteed to get your children listening, thinking, reading, loving, and living stories with comprehension, fluency, expression, and joy. Once Upon a Time pulls together a wealth of ideas, activities, and strategies for using folk and fairy tales, songs, chants, and nonsense rhymes. Also included in this handbook are the texts of 10 of Judy's favorite stories you can read today and tell tomorrow; a songbook of songs, chants, and nonsense rhymes; and a Reader's Theater script. You'll also find annotated bibliographies: 400+ children's books every storyteller should know; 100+ great children's books to use for creative drama and Reader's Theater; professional books and Web sites for storytelling, creative drama, and Reader's Theater; and a title and author index. Chapters include: ; Getting Started with Storytelling ; Judy Freeman's Songbook: Including Songs, Chants, Riddles, and Plenty of Nonsense ; Judy Freeman's Storybook: Tales You can Hear Today and Tell Tomorrow ; 400+ Children's Books Every Storyteller Should Know ; Getting Started with Creative Drama and Reader's Theater ; 100+ Children's Books Just Right for Creative Drama and/or Reader's Theater

Snow Happens
Snow Happens

Author: Alexa Darin

Publisher: Alexa Darin

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0996630619

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A wish for love… Lily’s only wish this Christmas is to find forever love. But because she lives at the North Pole, and works for Santa, she must first complete one last assignment—to help a man regain his holiday spirit. It’s an easy enough task, though it might turn out to be Lily’s most challenging assignment yet. A man haunted by his memories… Jake Longmire sees no reason to participate in a holiday that brings more angst than pleasure. But when a chance encounter with a strange young woman who is all about the merriment of the season has him rethinking his frosty attitude, he wonders if he might finally be ready to say good-bye to the pain of his past. Can a little holiday magic bring them together? Lily has an obligation to help Jake, no matter how disagreeable his nature. Jake thinks Lily’s love for the holidays is beyond reasonable. Will being stranded together in a remote winter cabin help them overcome their differences? Or will this be a holiday season they’ll both wish they could forget?

Baby
Baby

Author: David Ellwand

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780763626068

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A collection of close-up photos of babies from around the world celebrates the blessings of diversity and the miracle of life.

Mystery of the Fool and the Vanisher
Mystery of the Fool and the Vanisher

Author: David Ellwand

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2008-09-09

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780763620967

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In a journal-within-a-journal, stunning photographs reveal the magic of the natural world and the mystery of the imagination as a flint stone with a hole through it leads to a search for fairies that haunt the English Downs. By the creator of Fairie-ality.

Folktales Retold
Folktales Retold

Author: Amie A. Doughty

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-03-14

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0786480467

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Folktales and fairy tales are living stories; as part of the oral tradition, they change and evolve as they are retold from generation to generation. In the last thirty years, however, revision has become an art form of its own, with tales intentionally revised to achieve humorous effect, send political messages, add different cultural or regional elements, try out new narrative voices, and more. These revisions take all forms, from short stories to novel-length narratives to poems, plays, musicals, films and advertisements. The resulting tales paint the tales from myriad perspectives, using the broad palette of human creativity. This study examines folktale revisions from many angles, drawing on examples primarily from revisions of Western European traditional tales, such as those of the Grimm Brothers and Charles Perrault. Also discussed are new folktales that combine traditional storylines with commentary on modern life. The conclusion considers how revisionists poke fun at and struggle to understand stories that sometimes made little sense to start with.

Fairie-ality
Fairie-ality

Author: Genie Shields

Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)

Published: 2006-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780763632625

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Presents pages from the catalog of the top designer of couture and accessories for the fairy world, interspersed with descriptions of the events to which these feather and flower creations will be worn.

The WINNERS! Handbook
The WINNERS! Handbook

Author: Judy Freeman

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited

Published: 2006-04-30

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781591583899

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Freeman has developed a comprehensive handbook with thoroughly annotated lists of the 2005's best childrens books, lesson plans, teachers guides, stories, songs, and Internet resources. It includes an index.

Delta Epiphany
Delta Epiphany

Author: Ellen B. Meacham

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2018-04-02

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 149681746X

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In April 1967, a year before his run for president, Senator Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt floor as Kennedy, former US attorney general and brother to a president, touched the boy's distended stomach and stroked his face and hair. After several minutes with little response, the senator walked out the back door, wiping away tears. In Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi, Ellen B. Meacham tells the story of Kennedy's visit to the Delta, while also examining the forces of history, economics, and politics that shaped the lives of the children he met in Mississippi in 1967 and the decades that followed. The book includes thirty-seven powerful photographs, a dozen published here for the first time. Kennedy's visit to the Mississippi Delta as part of a Senate subcommittee investigation of poverty programs lasted only a few hours, but Kennedy, the people he encountered, Mississippi, and the nation felt the impact of that journey for much longer. His visit and its aftermath crystallized many of the domestic issues that later moved Kennedy toward his candidacy for the presidency. Upon his return to Washington, Kennedy immediately began seeking ways to help the children he met on his visit; however, his efforts were frustrated by institutional obstacles and blocked by powerful men who were indifferent and, at times, hostile to the plight of poor black children. Sadly, we know what happened to Kennedy, but this book also introduces us to three of the children he met on his visit, including the baby on the floor, and finishes their stories. Kennedy talked about what he had seen in Mississippi for the remaining fourteen months of his life. His vision for America was shaped by the plight of the hungry children he encountered there.