Bring story-telling, art, music, and drama to your classroom with these versatile storybooks. Students will create their own puppets or masks and then dramatize the stories as you read them aloud. They will also sing a short, adapted mountain song for each story. Add to the fun by selecting students to play sound effects that imitate character names when each name is spoken.
The weekly newspaper column "Jake's View" is a humorous portrayal of a legendary witty, philosophical old codger sitting on a rocker on the front porch of a farmhouse off a dusty back road in Lancaster Co., Pa. Sixty-eight lighthearted stories include titles such as Smucker's Harness Shop, Glow-in-the-Dark Mice, Heebie-Jeebies, Windsor Forge, John Bressler, Bowmansville Days and Amos, Dowsing, Chinese New Year and Hawaii in Shady Maple, Diving Horses, Burma-Shave Signs, etc. (199pp. Author, 1997.)