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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...
Author
Series
Starry River of the Sky volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An innkeeper's chore boy discovers that a visitor's stories hold the key to returning the moon to the Starry River of the Sky.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Clever muskrat outwits a hungry tiger with his story. "I'm going to eat you, little muskrat," said the tiger. "Wait!" said the muskrat. "I want to tell you a story." "Okay," said the tiger, "but make it quick!" Clever muskrat! He knows just how to outwit a very hungry tiger: tell him a story. Silly tiger! Tigers shouldn't listen to muskrats and their stories...especially clever muskrats with clever stories. Tom Willans creates a delightful read-aloud...
11) Zen shorts
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When Stillwater the giant panda moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways. Includes factual note on Zen.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men - stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century." "Ilana Davita Dinn is the listener to whom three men relate their lives." "As a young girl, she offers English lessons to a teenage survivor of the camps. In "The Ark Builder," he shares with her the story of his...
13) I am a story
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Told from the story's perspective, traces the evolution of storytelling from cave painting to the printing press to the digital technologies of today.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time there was a story no one has ever heard before, inspired by a carrot on the run, a knight who'd trade his sword for a pal, and an alien who just wants to get some rest and relaxation. It's a story about how to tell a story. From choosinga main character to crafting a problem to solve to arriving at a satisfying conclusion"--
18) Icefall
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Princess Solveig and her siblings are trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen fjord, along with her best friend and an army of restless soldiers, all awaiting news of the king's victory in battle, but as they wait for winter's end and the all-encompassing ice to break, acts of treachery make it clear that a traitor lurks in their midst.
19) The last weave
Author
Series
Twelve nights volume 3
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With time running out as the twelve nights come to an end, Kay must puzzle out the riddles laid before her in this new land of Bithynia--and help restore the world to order--before her dad and sister are gone forever."--
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