Books with title The Tree of Story

This delightful collection of folktales from around the world includes favorites like "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" (Norwegian) as well as less familiar stories, such as "The Blue Coat" (Jewish) and "The Sweetest Song" (African-American). With almost 20 years of storytelling under his belt, Hugh Lupton is the perfect choice for narrating this wide-reaching anthology. Spark your children's imaginations with his lively performance!

It's time to save Tale Town!Tale Town is on lockdown as Mayor Fitch prepares for an attack from the trolls. Desperate to gain the trolls' magical power, he is encouraging a war and gambling his town's safety on his quest for magical power.But when the children of Tale Town learn from their troll friend what's really going on, they know it's up to them to save their troll friend from danger and convince the people of Tale Town of Fitch's evil plan. The feat seems impossible-until a leaf from the story tree changes everything...The Little Legends Series:The Spell Thief (Book 1)The Great Troll Rescue (Book 2)The Genie's Curse (Book 3)The Magic Looking Glass (Book 4)The Secret Mountain (Book 5)The Story Tree (Book 6)

Follow the story of Will and Rowen to its heart-stopping conclusion in The Tree of Story, the final book in the Perilous Realm trilogy! In this, the conclusion to the sweeping Perilous Realm trilogy, Will and Rowen journey through the Shadow Realm--a wasteland of deserted cities and abandoned belongings--to rescue Rowen's grandfather, the loremaster Nicholas Pendrake, and confront the evil Malabron once and for all. As they travel, they encounter blood-sucking harrowers and wraith-like fetches, and they must also confront the reality that their dear friend Shade is returning to his wolf-life state and will soon pose a grave threat to them both. And they have no time to waste, for war looms back in Fable, where the dastardly Ammon Brax has installed himself as Marshall and has plans to claim the city for himself. What will become of Shade, Pendrake, and the people of Fable? Will Rowen and Will be able to find Malabron at the Tree of Story and break his wicked spell before it's too late?

In this, the conclusion to the sweeping Perilous Realm trilogy, Will and Rowen journey through the Shadow Realm--a wasteland of deserted cities and abandoned belongings--to rescue Rowen's grandfather, the loremaster Nicholas Pendrake, and confront the evil Malabron once and for all. As they travel, they encounter blood-sucking harrowers and wraith-like fetches, and they must also confront the reality that their dear friend Shade is returning to his wolf-life state and will soon pose a grave threat to them both. And they have no time to waste, for war looms back in Fable, where the dastardly Ammon Brax has installed himself as Marshall and has plans to claim the city for himself. What will become of Shade, Pendrake, and the people of Fable? Will Rowen and Will be able to find Malabron at the Tree of Story and break his wicked spell before it's too late?

Whatever else it may be and signify in our hearts and souls, Christmas is a celebration of imagination and stories. Perhaps that is why I love Santa so much; he reminds me of the magic and wonder that exist in our world and in ourselves if we only open our hearts and minds to see them. To me, Santa Claus is a very real spiritual being who comes once a year to remind us of that magic and of the love that is at the heart of Christmas. To honor this celebration of imagination and wonder, every year for the past dozen or more years I have written a Christmas story. The stories reflect my interests: wonderment, fantasy, science fiction, Santa Claus, the mystery and magic of Christmas. I wrote them for my kids and for the kid in myself, as well as for friends and family. When writing them, publication was the farthest thing in my mind. But now that the opportunity has come to share them with a wider audience through this book, I feel this is a special gift in its own right, both for the stories and for me. So from my Story Tree to yours, may these tales of wonder and magic brighten your spirit and bring a smile to your lips. Merry Christmas, everyone! —from the Introduction by David Spangler

The Story Tree was a very, very, very old tree – a thousand years or more old. The reason it was called the Story Tree was because over the past thousand years it had collected a lot of stories. Where do the stories come from, I can hear you ask. Well you see the Story Tree had a secret. What was its secret, I can hear you ask. Well the secret of the Story Tree was that it was a very good listener. Yes, you heard me correctly – the Story Tree was a very good listener. So every day when all the morning birds arrived to sit on the branches of the story tree, they would all tell the Story Tree a story about where they had been and what they had seen. And, being a very good listener, the Story Tree listened to their stories and remembered every detail and every word. And every evening when all the evening birds arrived to sit on the branches of the Story Tree, they would all tell the Story Tree a story about where they had been and what they had seen. Now the Story Tree would store all the stories quite carefully in its branches and leaves and when a bird would land on a branch it would tell the Story Tree a story and then, in return, the Story Tree would give the bird another story. That seems fair, don’t you think? So one day I met the Story Tree – in fact I had a cup of tree just under its branches – and the story tree told me some of the stories that the birds had brought to the Story Tree and that it had stored quite carefully in its branches and in its leaves. So each one of the stories in this book is a story that has been told by a bird to the Story Tree because it is a very good listener. And here they are………..