Folktales on stage: children's plays for reader's theater (or readers theatre), with 16 scripts from world folk and fairy tales and legend - aaron shepard

Folktales on Stage is a collection of readers theater scripts for young readers, adapted by award-winning childrens author Aaron Shepard from his own folktale retellings.

A wide variety of countries and cultures is represented, including Native America, Africa, the Middle East, Russia, Southeast Asia, and China.

While focusing on ages 8 to 15, the collection features a full range of reading levels.

The scripts in this collection are The Adventures of Mouse Deer (Indonesia), The Calabash Kids (Tanzania), The Hidden One (Native America), The Boy Who Wanted the Willies (Europe), The Princess Mouse (Finland), The Legend of Slappy Hooper (U.

), The Gifts of Wali Dad (India, Pakistan), The Bakers Dozen (U.

), Master Maid (Norway), The Magic Brocade (China), Forty Fortunes (Iran), Master Man (Nigeria), Savitri (India), The Enchanted Storks (Iraq), The Crystal Heart (Vietnam), and The Sea Kings Daughter (Russia).

///////////////////////////////////////////////// Aaron Shepard is the author of many books, stories, and scripts for young people, as well as professional books and resources for writers and educators.

He has also worked professionally in both storytelling and readers theater, as a performer, director, and teacher trainer.

Aarons lively and meticulous retellings of folktales and other traditional literature have found homes with more than a dozen childrens book publishers, large and small, and with the worlds top childrens literary magazines, winning him honors from the American Library Association, the New York Public Library, the Bank Street College of Education, the National Council for the Social Studies, and the American Folklore Society.

His extensive Web site, visited by thousands of teachers and librarians each week, is known internationally as a prime resource for folktales, storytelling, and readers theater, while his stories and scripts have been featured in textbooks from publishers worldwide, including Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, SRA, The College Board, Pearson Education, National Geographic, Oxford University Press, Barrons, Hodder Education, and McGraw-Hill.

///////////////////////////////////////////////// Aaron Shepard is a national treasure.

He has given thousands of us busy teachers and librarians a gold mine of ready-made plays our students clamor to perform over and over.

Aarons new collection never fails to delight and enth.