Books published by publisher Waln Creek Publications

Verses and Poems and Stories to Tell is rich with delightful tales and rhymes to keep children engaged for hours and during chores, walks, and play. For parents and teachers this offers a treasury of ideas and story-lines to carry through many days and bedtime rituals with children! With a deep compassion for a child’s need to hear beautiful words and inspiring stories that give a new excitement to ordinary daily routines or things in nature, the author provides glimpses into how to turn the daily routines of life into fun!

At nineteen, Roxy Thompson has a past she's secreted a way in a forgotten corner of her mind, remembered only in nightmares that haunt her. When love walks into her life in the form of the handsome Raul Martinez, that past, those memories explode into the light of day. In this searing yet uplifting story, Roxy must face the nightmare of her childhood in order to a build a future filled with love.

This darling story of bees in a bee colony explain in a story-like way all that happens in the cycle of the year from the perspective of the bees! Children of all ages will learn to love the bees and all they do for the earth - all they do to survive in the world. In this time when our beloved bees are endangered, what better way to think of them fondly then through these carefully told stories by this master story teller? The story ill make a naturalist of you if you are not already!

Discover the antics of this little gnome as he makes his way in the way of elemental earth sprites causing mischief and furthering the cycles of the seasons. The expressive illustrations support the delightful adventures of this irresistible little gnome. Every child and adult will enjoy these stories well told by long-time Waldorf teacher, Jakob Streit.

The Word Mastery Primer is a wonderful resource to aid teachers in organizing word families and to help them to create picture-filled stories. Words and phonemes together are grouped artfully to make them memorable and delightful for children learning to read. This book serves also as a reader with imaginative short stories to help children to practice the sound families they have learned. The author draws on a number of resources as well as his own considerable experience and creativity to build this short and comprehensive collection for teachers. The book has been used in manuscript form for teacher training in the Education Department at Antioch University, New England for decades. This gem of a reading primer has helped hundreds of teachers in this most memorable approach to opening the world for children learning to put sounds together with letters.

When the age-old tale of a dragon devouring a whole kingdom and needing the help of a courageous champion is re-told in this little book, the story comes a live in a splendid way! The Prince who comes and sees the distress and responds is indeed someone special. Every child will recognize the courage inside while reading this story. And the story can be easily read by young readers; so courage can take many forms!

Whatever is incredible in this story is true. The tale I have to tell will seem strange to those who know little of the social life of the West at the beginning of this century. These sharp contrasts of corn-shuckings and camp-meetings, of wild revels followed by wild revivals; these contacts of highwayman and preacher; scenes of picturesque simplicity, grotesque humor and savage ferocity, of abandoned wickedness and austere piety, can hardly seem real to those who know the country now. But the books of biography and reminiscence which preserve the memory of that time more than justify what is marvelous in these pages.Living, in early boyhood, on the very ground where my grandfather—brave old Indian-fighter!—had defended his family in a block-house built in a wilderness by his own hands, I grew up familiar with this strange wild life. At the age when other children hear fables and fairy stories, my childish fancy was filled with traditions of battles with Indians and highwaymen.In a true picture of this life neither the Indian nor the hunter is the center-piece, but the circuit-rider. More than any one else, the early circuit preachers brought order out of this chaos. In no other class was the real heroic element so finely displayed. How do I remember the forms and weather-beaten visages of the old preachers, whose constitutions had conquered starvation and exposure—who had survived swamps, alligators, Indians, highway robbers and bilious fevers! How was my boyish soul tickled with their anecdotes of rude experience—how was my imagination wrought upon by the recital of their hair-breadth escapes! How was my heart set afire by their contagious religious enthusiasm, so that at eighteen years of age I bestrode the saddle-bags myself and laid upon a feeble frame the heavy burden of emulating their toils! Surely I have a right to celebrate them, since they came so near being the death of me.Doubtless I shall hopelessly damage myself with some good people by confessing in the start that, from the first chapter to the last, this is a love-story. But it is not my fault. It is God who made love so universal that no picture of human life can be complete where love is left out.

In a prologue the author explains how her fact-fiction book is based on her great-great grandfather's 1849 Gold Rush letters.Against his parents' wishes, Eugene Chase makes plans with boyhood friend Leal to leave Vermont and seek their fortunes in California. Eugene's sister Hortense understands her oldest brother's desire; and she makes him promise to write letters home, addressed to her.In March 1849, at nineteen, Eugene leave home for New York City. Leal is to meet him in St. Louis. Eugene's Uncle Lucien, who left Derby Line eight years earlier, lends his nephew the money for his adventure. "The fruits of your journey will reveal themselves in time," he tells Eugene.From beginning to end, Eugene's journey is long and hard: a journey to a new land and adulthood. Throughout constant difficulties, Eugene shows courage and endurance. This is not true of Leal, who is a burden to all in their Pioneer Line company, which includes Judd, an older doctor. Eventually, Judd asks Eugene to join him for the final 200 miles to California. At the Carson River, after crossing forty miles of treacherous desert, the two men leave the company, then later mine gold together. But the travel West and gold mining leave Judd in weakened health. He leaves for the East, and Eugene heads farther north for richer gold fields.In a epilogue, the author recounts that her great-great grandfather earned enough money to pay his passage home by sea, to net a clear one thousand dollars, and to build a fine house in Derby Line, Vermont.