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Here is a menu of all special features and alternate formats for Aaron Shepard’s books, stories, and scripts. Use this to quickly find any and all materials related to specific works. The listing is alphabetical by title.
Note: Bulleted links and links to online formats and book info take you to different parts of this or an associated site.
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The Adventures of Mouse Deer: Favorite Folk Tales of Southeast Asia
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Folktales on Stage |
Hear the Music (7 seconds)
The Baker’s Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) | | Reader’s Theater (Spanish) | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Picture Book (Spanish) | | Coloring Book | | Readers on Stage | | Folktales on Stage |
Hear Aaron Read (2 minutes)Hear Aaron Read—Whole Story (8 minutes)Watch the Book Trailer (1 minute)Watch the Book Trailer (Spanish) (1 minute)
The Battle of Song
The Boy Who Wanted the Willies
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Folktales on Stage |
The Calabash Kids: A Tale of Tanzania
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Folktales on Stage |
The Christmas Truce
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book |
Hear Lakes Area Theatre (11 minutes)Watch the Chamber Readers (11 minutes)Watch the Book Trailer (1 minute)
The Crystal Heart: A Vietnamese Legend
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Folktales on Stage |
Hear the Music (14 seconds)Hear Aaron Read (2 minutes)
La docena del panadero
E-F-G
The Enchanted Storks: A Tale of Bagdad
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Folktales on Stage |
AUDIO — | Wisdom and Luck |
Hear Aaron Read (3 minutes)Hear Sarah Saulter Tell (17 minutes)
Forty Fortunes: A Tale of Iran
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Folktales on Stage |
AUDIO — | Wisdom and Luck |
Hear Sarah Saulter Tell (13 minutes)Watch the Chamber Readers (12 minutes)
The Four Puppets: A Tale of Burma
ONLINE — | Story |
The Gifts of Friday Eve: A Tale of Iran
Note: “The Magic of Mushkil Gusha” is an older title of this story.
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Storytelling |
The Gifts of the Grasscutter: A Tale of India and Pakistan
Note: “The Gifts of Wali Dad” is an older title of this story.
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Folktales on Stage |
AUDIO — | A People With One Heart |
Hear Aaron Read (3 minutes)Hear Mike Pinder Read (12 minutes)
The Gifts of Wali Dad
H-I-J-K
Help! Hilary! Help!
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater |
The Hidden One: A Native American Legend
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Folktales on Stage |
How Frog Went to Heaven: A Tale of Angola
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |
Hear the Music (8 seconds)
How Violence Is Ended: A Buddhist Legend
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Storytelling |
King o’ the Cats
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book |
Story Handout (PDF, 1 page)
- A King o’ the Cats Bookshelf
- Watch Aaron Read! (11 minutes)
Kings for Breakfast!: A Hindu Legend
ONLINE — | Story |
L-M
Lady of Marvels
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) |
Hear the Names (for “The Most Precious Thing in the World” only)
Lady White Snake: A Tale From Chinese Opera
ONLINE — | Story |
BOOKS — | Picture Book |
VIDEO — | Lady White Snake |
- A Lady White Snake Bookshelf
- Lady White Snake (Fan Site/Links Page)
The Legend of Lightning Larry
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Readers on Stage | | Stories on Stage |
Story Handout (PDF, 1 page)Hear Aaron Read (2 minutes)Hear Aaron Read—Whole Story (7 minutes)Watch the Chamber Readers (8 minutes)Watch the Book Trailer (2 minutes)
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 |
Hear Aaron Read (2 minutes)Hear Cindy Killavey Tell (10 minutes)
The Magic Brocade: A Tale of China
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Folktales on Stage |
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 |
Hear the Names (for “No Sons!” only)
The Magic of Mushkil Gusha
The Maiden of Northland
The Man Who Sang to Ghosts: A Japanese Legend
ONLINE — | Story |
BOOKS — | Mini-Novel | | 13 Scary Ghost Stories |
Many Fingers, One Hand
BOOKS — | Board Book |
Master Maid: A Tale of Norway
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Folktales on Stage |
Hear Aaron Read (2 minutes)
Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Folktales on Stage |
The Mice Before Christmas
By Anne L. Watson
ONLINE — | Reader’s Theater |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Coloring Book |
The Millionaire Miser: A Buddhist Fable
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |
Monkey
See The Monkey King
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 |
- A Monkey King Bookshelf
- Monkey King Lives! (Fan Site/Links Page)
Monkey Lives!
See The Monkey King
Mop Top: A Tale of Norway
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Storytelling |
More Than a Match
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Storytelling |
AUDIO — | And Once Again | | Frog and Friends |
The Most Precious Thing in the World
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 |
Hear the Names (for “Lady of Marvels” only)
Mouse Deer and Tiger
Mouse Deer and Crocodile
Mouse Deer and Farmer
N-O-P
No Sons!
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 |
Hear the Music (9 seconds)
Peddler Polly and the Story Stealer
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Readers on Stage |
The Prince Who Had Everything: The Legend of the Buddha
ONLINE — | Story |
The Princess and the God: A Tale of Ancient India
Note: Princess of India is the picture book version of this story. “Savitri” is an older title of both the story and the picture book.
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Folktales on Stage | | Stories on Stage (1st Edition) |
MUSIC — | Savitri |
Hear Aaron Read (2 minutes)
The Princess Mouse: A Tale of Finland
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Folktales on Stage |
Hear the Music (22 seconds)
Princess of India
Q-R-S-T
Quackling: A Not-Too-Grimm Fairy Tale
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Coloring Book |
Watch the Book Trailer (1 minute)
Robin Hood
BOOKS — | Graphic Novel |
Savitri
The Sea King’s Daughter: A Russian Legend
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Trad. Chinese) | | Storytelling |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Coloring Book | | Folktales on Stage |
MUSIC — | Lateral Lines |
Hear Aaron Read (2 minutes)Watch the Book Trailer (2 minutes)
Skeeter and the Weasels
Note: For the sequel to this story, see “Skeeter Saves the World.”
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) |
BOOKS — | Picture Book | | Coloring Book |
Skeeter Saves the World
Note: This is the sequel to “Skeeter and the Weasels.”
ONLINE — | Story |
The Songs of Power: A Northern 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 |
Hear the Names (for “The Battle of Song” only)Hear Aaron Read (3 minutes)
The Swan Knight: A Medieval Legend
ONLINE — | Story |
BOOKS — | Mini-Novel |
Timothy Tolliver and the Bully Basher
BOOKS — | Chapter Book |
Two‑Eyes
U-V-W-X-Y-Z
The War Prayer
By Mark Twain
ONLINE — | Reader’s Theater | | Reader’s Theater (Team) |
When the Twins Went to War: A Fable of Far East Russia
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater | | Storytelling |
Which Shoes Do You Choose?
ONLINE — | Story | | Reader’s Theater |
BOOKS — | Picture Book |
The Wicked Girl: A Tale of Turkey
ONLINE — | Story | | Storytelling |
The Wings of the Butterfly: A Tale of the Amazon Rainforest
ONLINE — | Story |