"This take on The House That Jack Built features a mouse, elf, reindeer, and much more. Young readers can get in on the act thanks to sound prompts such as "squeak," "stomp," and "jingle"--Provided by publisher.
When the Little Read Hen, who loves to read and write, asks Dog, Cat, and Pig to help her create a story, they decline, so she researches, outlines, drafts, edits, and proofs the story by herself.
After seeing a green-speckled reptile hatch from an egg one day after storytime, young Max tries to convince someone that there is a dragon in the library, growing ever larger as it eats books, but no one believes him.
A freshly baked cornbread boy escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of hungry animals, and also has a spicy encounter with an alligator in this Cajun version of the Gingerbread boy.
Relates the Aztec tale of how chocolate was introduced to humans after the Wind God, upset over the Sun God's refusal to share his dark cacao, transforms into a blue frog and tells the children where to find cacao beans.
Presents an introduction to the story theater process, stressing the importance of creating an environment of trust in the classroom, features warm-up exercises and dramatization tips, and provides twenty-five story theater scripts for students in grades two through six, each including one of more storytellers, a chorus, and other actors.
