Book Box #2

Drawing

Coloring with Block Crayons
Sieglinde de Francesca

Drawing with Your Four to Eleven Year Old
Donna Simmons

Drawing Simple Animal Forms
Live Education!
http://www.live-education.com/Curriculum/SecondGrade




Painting

Painting in Waldorf Education
Dick Bruin and Attie Lichthart

The Waldorf School Calendar 2008
published annually by the Chicago Waldorf School
http://www.chicagowaldorf.org/store/index.php

How to Do Wet-on-Wet Watercolor Painting And Teach It to Children
Rauld Russell

A good evaluation of the Waldorf painting books that are out there, plus a link to purchase Rauld Russell’s book through Marsha Johnson: http://theparentingpassageway.com/2009/02/02/resources-for-wet-on-wet-watercolor-painting/




Modeling

Learning About the World through Modeling
Arthur Auer

Educating the Will
Michael Howard



Four Seasons/Four Elements

Earth Water Fire and Air: Playful explorations in the four elements
Walter Kraul

Autumn: Nature Activities for Children
Irmgard Kutsch

Winter: Nature Activities for Children
Irmgard Kutsch

Spring: Nature Activities for Children
Irmgard Kutsch

Summer: Nature Activities for Children
Irmgard Kutsch

Sunflower Houses
Sharon Lovejoy

Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots
Sharon Lovejoy




Poetry Collections

Journey through Time in Verse and Rhyme
Heather Thomas

Poems and Speech Exercises for Grades I & II
ed. John Miles
Promethean Press
http://www.prometheanpress.com/

Around the Year
Elsa Beskow

Treasury of Children’s Poetry
ed. Alison Sage

Talking Like the Rain
ed. X. J. Kennedy

Poetry of Earth
ed. Adrienne Adams

A note about BookFinder.com:
Lists all books by an author including co-authors and alternates
http://www.bookfinder.com/author/adrienne-adams/




Fairy Tales and Folktales

The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales
ISBN 0-394-70930-6
(Pantheon edition, most often referred to in the Waldorf teaching of the alphabet)

The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Roy Wilkinson

Favorite Folktales from Around the World
ed. Jane Yolen

Magic Wool
Dagmar Schmidt
(flat wool pictures)

Making Magical Fairy-Tale Puppets
Christel Dhom
(needle felted puppets and mobiles)

Rose Windows and How to Make Them
Helga Meyerbröker
(Star-Thalen p.54)

Find authentic fairy tales in the nonfiction section of your library -- check 398 in the Dewey Decimal System




Fables

Aesop’s Fables
Ann McGovern

The Fables of Aesop
ed. Joseph Jacobs

The Fox that Wanted Nine Golden Tails
Mary Knight

Borrowed Feathers: and other fables
ed. Bryna Stevens

Lights Along the Path
Rebecca Schacht




Native American Legends

Tales from the Igloo
ed. Maurice Metayer




Story Collections

Nature Stories
Margaret Peckham

One, Two, Three!
David Adams

Verses and Poems and Stories to Tell
Dorothy Harrer

The Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book
Isabel Wyatt

The Book of Fairy Princes
Isabel Wyatt

King Beetle-Tamer
Isabel Wyatt

Puck the Gnome
Jakob Streit

The Festival of Stones
Reg Down

Big-Stamp Two-Toes the Barefoot Giant
Reg Down

The Magic Knot & Other Tangles
Reg Down




Books of Plays

Plays for Grades One through Four
Michael Hedley Burton

25 Plays Inspired by Waldorf Teachers
David Mitchell

Let’s Do a Play!
Colin Price