Books published by publisher Storycraft Publishing

This book helps young storytellers find the right story to tell at campouts, slumber parties, workshops, and family gatherings. It tells kids how to create their own tales to use while traveling in the car or babysitting. Find tips to help learn, practice and tell stories. Get ideas for using costumes, puppets, music, and crafts. Discover the fun of storytelling parties. Learn how to start a storytelling club. Organize a junior storytelling festival.

One summer morning in Tehran, eight-year old Naji woke up to an unusual sound. Three strangers were digging in her courtyard. Naji's sixth sense warned her. Something suspicious was down beneath the yard.Frequently, adults in her life had warned her about different terrifying creatures. The events of the day proposed to unravel many other mysteries. Without losing sight of the dig, Naji started to examine the myth of Looloo, the one monster she had been warned about the most.Her determination to get close to the dig and experience the abyss herself grew more intense as the hole got deeper. Getting close to the dig was not as easy as she hoped. Deep into the hole a digger disappeared. The second digger went down to investigate. He too vanished in the depths of the dig. There was no response from him. The last member of the digging party was the foreman. Long after the foreman's decent, her father was on his knees, at the brim, bent over with his head in the hole, hopelessly calling and listening. Suddenly, he heard a weak sound. The foreman was calling, "Pull up!".

Knitwear designer Melissa Morgan-Oakes revolutionized the world of sock-making with "2-at-a-Time Socks". Her ingenious approach showed delighted knitters how to simultaneously create two socks on a single circular needle. With that book, yarn enthusiasts said goodbye forever to second sock syndrome, the frustration of completing one beautiful hand-knit sock, only to remember that another must be made. Now, Morgan-Oakes turns the approach on its head or rather, its toe with "Toe-Up 2-at-a-Time Socks". Knitters adore toe-up socks for both novelty and practicality. Knitters can try on the sock as they work, they never run out of yarn before the foot is complete, and they avoid needing the dreaded kitchener stitch to finish off the toe. Many swear that toe-up socks just plain feel more comfortable, too.

The author served as the city editor of the Charlotte Observer (NC) until his death, becoming something of a gadfly, alternately condemning and commending the city's political, social, and cultural elite. At the Observer, Avery wrote a weekly column titled "A Variety of Idle Comments," in which he reported human-interest stories and spun humorous tales. These columns were posthumously collected and published in 1905 as Idle Comments. Avery died at age thirty-two. (from a book summary)

A queen waits for her husband who never comes and loses herself to the garden she so loves. Becoming the Rose Queen, she searches over the coming years for happiness and love only to believe that she might never find either love or happiness. Will she forever be trapped in the form of the Rose Queen or will she find what she's looking for and break her own spell.