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Holiday Stories All Year Round Audience Participation Stories and More
Violet Teresa deBarba Miller
Book Code: LU8675
ISBN: 1-59158-675-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-675-3
Libraries Unlimited
Publication: 10/30/2008
List Price: $35.00 (UK Sterling Price: £19.95)
Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 10/30/2008)
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 8 1/2 x 11
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Description: Share stories about popular holidays, from New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, and President's Day, to Indian Heritage Month, Christmas, and Kwanzaa with stories from some of our most renowned and beloved storytellers--Laura Simms, Diane Wolkstein, Ruth Stotter, Joseph Bruchac, Margaret Read MacDonald, and many others. These stories, presented chronologically according to the holidays, come with instructions for how to get your audience involved, plus reading connections, activity ideas and holiday background information. This collection will help educators, librarians, and storytellers create holiday-based story programs from January to December; and it is a wonderful resource for enhancing learning units, filling in empty moments, and loosening up an audience. Most of all, it gives you some great ways to share important times together.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Laura Simms
  • Introduction
  • January
  • Horace the Horrible (New Year's Day) by Arlean Hale Lambert
  • A Different Kind of New Year's Celebration: Hogmanay (New Year's Day) by Norma McKissick Livo
  • The Caterpillar Blues (Martin Luther King Jr Day) by Linda Goss and Gretchen Shannon
  • February
  • The Great Groundhog-Day Get Together (Groundhog's Day) by Larry Johnson and Elaine Wynne
  • Oni Wa Soto (Setsubon, Japanese New Year) by Cathy Spagnoli
  • White Wave (Valentine's Day) by Diane Wolkstein
  • March
  • The Musical Leprechaun and St. Patrick (St. Patrick's Day) by Gail Herman
  • April
  • The Legend of Songkran (Thai New Year) by Margaret Read MacDonald and Supaporn Vathanaprida
  • A Blessing in Disguise (Passover) by Peninnah Schram
  • The Earth Dreamers (Earth Day) by Regina Ress
  • Why the Evergreens Keep their Leaves in Winter (Arbor Day) by Ruth Stotter
  • May
  • The Garden Rainbow (May Day) by Linda Marchisio
  • Kelly's Memorial Day Parade (Memorial Day) by V.J. Richie
  • The Buddha's Birthday in Thailand (Buddha's Birthday) by Wajuppa Tossa
  • June
  • The Freedom Flag (Flag Day) by Gay Merrill Gross
  • July
  • Fourth of July Holiday (Fourth of July) by Teresa Miller & Andrea Bielecki
  • September
  • Charity (Ramadan) by Cathy Spagnoli
  • El Grito de Dolores (Cry of the City of Dolores) (Mexican Independence Day) by Norma Cantu
  • The Constitution Jive (National Constitution Day) by Linda Marchisio
  • The Boy Who Called the King a Fool (International Peace Day) by Ruthilde Kronberg
  • October
  • The Magic Paint Box (United Nations Day) by Gerald Fierst
  • The Halloweek Pumpkin (Halloween) by Stephanie Mita
  • November
  • Gluskonba and the Maple Tree (American Indian Heritage Month) by Joseph Bruchac
  • Eleven Bells (Veterans Day) by Larry Johnson
  • Rabbit, Bobcat, and the Wild Turkeys (Thanksgiving Day) by Fran Stallings
  • December
  • Reisele's Hannukah Dream (Hannukah) by Ruthilde Kronberg
  • Silent Night 1914, or the Peace Message of Christmas (Christmas Eve) by Charles David Kleymeyer
  • How the Squirrel Got Its Stripes (Christmas Day) by Laura Simms
  • Feasts a Plenty (Kwanzaa) by Kathy Culmer
  • Glossary by Ruth Stotter
  • Bibliography of Holiday Books
LC Card Number: 2008021121
LCC Class: PS648
Dewey Class: 813'
PDF Catalogs:
LU Public Library Spring 2008.pdf
LU School Library Spring 2008.pdf
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