Education Resource Catalog - The Waldorf School of Santa Barbara

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A comprehensive selection of titles on Waldorf education • child development
• early childhood education • family and child health • activities with children •
as well as picture books for young children • early readers • adventure stories for
young adults • Christmas books • special care • teaching resources • and more
SteinerBooks
Education Resource Catalog
Books for Parents, Teachers, and Children
703-661-1594 n www.steinerbooks.org
Dear Parents, Teachers, and Friends,
Looking through this huge Fall 2014 Education
Resource Catalog, I am grateful to all of our
talented authors and artists who have worked
so creatively to bring us such wonderful books!
As we all know, reading to children and sharing
good art with children is essential to their healthy development—
and it is even more important in this ever-increasing technological
age! We also have excellent books in many diverse areas that you,
adults connected to children, can learn from.
Some of our new books include: inspiring bedtime stories by
Luke Fischer, a discussion of the parent-teacher relationship by
Torin Finser, an unusual book on the importance of cleaning from
Linda Thomas, a healthy appraisal of good nutrition for children
from Marie-Laure Valandro, and a very timely book on electronic
radiation and its effects from Katie Singer. I am so grateful to all
of our authors for tackling these important areas of life. So please
enjoy these and all of our other offerings in this catalog.
I am also very grateful to our dedicated and talented artists and
book professionals, Jeanne DePrince Bowen and Mary Giddens,
who spent so much time, thought, and creativity in putting this
catalog together!
With very best wishes for the year ahead,
Eugene Gollogly
CEO and President, SteinerBooks
Contents
New Books................................................ 1
Picture Books for the Young Child.......... 14
Storybooks.............................................. 32
Folk Tales................................................. 33
Verses and Poems................................... 36
Young Adult............................................. 37
Gift Books................................................ 39
Christmas Books...................................... 40
Celebrating Festivals............................... 43
Activities with Children........................... 44
Cookbooks.............................................. 52
Family and Child Health.......................... 54
Early Childhood....................................... 57
Education and Child Development......... 59
Special Care............................................ 67
Parenting and Family............................... 69
Foundations of Waldorf Education......... 72
Teacher Resources................................... 76
book excerpts
A Second Classroom............................... 82
An Electronic Silent Spring...................... 84
The Blue Forest....................................... 87
Why Cleaning Has Meaning.................... 88
Nutrition for Enlightened Parenting....... 90
Index........................................................ 93
Ordering.................................................. 96
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Front cover image from The Blue Forest, illustrated by Stephanie Young
and Tim Smith. Inside cover illustration by Daniela Drescher.
New Books
An Electronic Silent Spring
Facing the Dangers and Creating Safe Limits
Katie Singer
Read an excerpt,
starting on page 84
ISBN: 9781938685088 Paperback portal Books $18.00 310 pages
“This is a ‘Stop, Look, and Listen’ book. Katie Singer has performed a great public service by assembling compelling
scientific studies and personal experiences about the effects of exposure to radiation from man-made electricity and
wireless devices on birds, wildlife, and human health. Like Rachel Carson, Singer’s warnings will not be popular with
power company and telecommunications executives, investors, and lobbyists, who can be counted on to attempt to
undermine her work. However, her findings deserve thoughtful analysis and action by concerned citizens and elected
officials and must not be swept under the rug.” —Whitney North Seymour, Jr., former New York State Senator, United
States Attorney, and co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council
“A must-read for those of us rushing heedlessly into the wireless age. Katie Singer describes the dangers of EMFs in a
way that goes beyond the science with moving personal stories.” —Sally Fallon Morell, President, The Weston A. Price
Foundation and author of Nourishing Traditions
“With brilliant clarity, An Electric Silent Spring shows how radiation emitted by our beloved electronic devices can
cause biological harm. It describes the steps that individuals, manufacturers and policy makers can take to reduce our emissions and exposure. Because these
issues matter to every parent, teacher, and technology user, everyone needs to read this book.” —Frank Clegg, former President of Microsoft Canada, founding CEO of Canadians for Safe Technology (c4st.org).
Over millions of years, living creatures have evolved in relation to the Earth’s electromagnetic energy. Now, we’re surrounded by human-made frequencies
that challenge our health and survival. An Electric Silent Spring reports the effects of electrification and wireless devices on people, plants, bee colonies,
and frogs around the globe. It presents solutions for people who want to reduce their exposure to electromagnetic radiation.
This pioneering book is for anyone concerned about the health of the environment and the people and other creatures that inhabit it.
Katie Singer is a writer and certified fertility educator. Since 1997, she has taught Fertility Awareness to health-care professionals and to women
and couples from their teens on up. Her book, The Garden of Fertility, was published by Avery/Penguin in 2004. Her writing about Fertility
Awareness has also been published in Alternative Therapies; Mothering; and Wise Traditions. Singer’s novel, The Wholeness of a Broken Heart
(Riverhead/Penguin), explores themes of fertility through four generations of Jewish mothers and daughters. The book was a selection of Barnes
& Noble’s Discover Great New Writers Program and has been translated into three languages.
The Blue Forest
available October 15, 2014
Written by Luke Fischer
Illustrated by Stephanie Young and Tim Smith
Read an excerpt,
starting on page 87
ISBN: 9781584201472 Paperback SteinerBooks $14.95 48 pages
Here is a collection of seven highly imaginative bedtime stories—one story for each night of the week,
and each story featuring one of the seven colors of the rainbow. Set in a magical blue forest, these stories
tell of mysterious nighttime events and relationships involving humans and animals and nature, and
have an innovative and artistic character that explores the genre of bedtime stories in a new way. They
were conceived and composed as bedtime stories in the most emphatic sense: their vivid painterly
depictions, enigmatic occurrences, and archetypal imagery make the tales resemble the non-discursive
and ethereal dreamscape of sleep. The stories enliven the imagination in a way that leads seamlessly
from the clear outlines of the waking world into the elusive realm of dreams; they are more imagistic
than narratival, drawing the reader and listener to live more deeply into the images, rather than being
seized by the “daytime” logic of a gripping plot.
The characters in The Blue Forest include: a girl who walks a path through the forest of blue trees, a red bird whose mellifluous song inspires dreams, a
boy who is led by a blue bird to a murky pond where an enormous golden flower blossoms before his eyes, an astrologer who paints stars from his purple
tower, a fish family that transports raindrop-jewels to a secret subterranean sea cave, a mother and baby possum who chance on a mysterious emeraldgreen sanctuary while seeking refuge from a sudden storm, and an old woman who tends a garden where the flowers unfold at nightfall to greet the stars.
The luminous illustrations by Stephanie Young and Tim Smith beautifully serve the soothing and magical qualities of the stories. (Ages 6-9)
Luke Fischer (pictured at left) is a writer, scholar, and award-winning poet. He is the author of the poetry collection Paths of Flight (Black Pepper,
2013), the monograph The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems (Bloomsbury, 2015), as well as poems, translations, and articles in
journals, anthologies, and academic volumes. He won the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, has been shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry
Prize, and was commended in the 2013 FAW Anne Elder Award for a first book of poems. In 2008 he was awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy from the
University of Sydney. He has taught at universities in the U.S. and Germany. He lives in Sydney, Australia.
Stephanie Young is a Waldorf graduate who spent many of her formative childhood years in Camphill Village. She studied art in New York City.
Tim Smith grew up in Australia and is an artist and rustic woodworker. He lives in Upstate New York with his wife, Stephanie Young, and their children.
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New Books
A Second
Classroom
Why Cleaning
Has Meaning
Parent-Teacher
Relationships in a
Waldorf School
Torin M. Finser, Ph.D.
Bringing Wellbeing
into Your Home
Linda Thomas
ISBN: 9781621480631 Paperback
SteinerBooks $25.00 252 pages
“What Torin has so sensitively
crafted here will give you greater
simplicity and spaciousness in school
community life. I highly recommend
this book to all parents and teachers,
but especially to those connected
to Waldorf schools.” —Kim John
Payne, M.Ed., author of Simplicity
Parenting and Beyond Winning
This book examines the parent–
teacher relationship in all its dimensions, from parent evenings
and conferences to communication, conflict, and the life-cycle of
parent involvement in their school.
In between the chapters on practical advice are sections that consider the issues from a deeper,
spiritual dimension. This book is
intended to stimulate conversation, self-reflection, and relational
practices that awaken community
life in and around our schools.
Floris Books $26.95 288 pages
Few of us enjoy cleaning—more
often than not, it feels like a thankless, repetitive task that we must
force ourselves to do.
Linda Thomas is an expert, professional cleaner who operated her
own ecological cleaning company
for more than twenty years. In this
unique book, she shows how cleaning can have a profound effect—
not just on the spaces we care for,
but also on our own wellbeing and
personal development.
This lively and readable book is
full of anecdotes, practical examples, and ecological cleaning tips.
Ultimately, the author states that
if we elevate our understanding
of cleaning we might even begin
to enjoy it!
Torin M. Finser,
Ph.D., is Director of
the Waldorf Teacher
Education Program
at Antioch University New England.
He is a consultant
for public and Waldorf schools in
areas of facilitating change, designing
mentoring and evaluation programs,
and leadership development.
Linda Thomas
was born in 1953
and grew up in
South Africa in a
large family. She
now lives in Switzerland with her
husband and two grown-up children.
In 1988 she founded an ecological
cleaning company, and from 1993
to 2012 was responsible for cleaning
the Goetheanum buildings in Dornach, Switzerland. She is presently a
housemother at the Lucas Clinic in
Arlesheim. She lectures widely.
Read an excerpt,
starting on page 82
Read an excerpt,
starting on page 88
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Nutrition for
Enlightened
Parenting
available October 15, 2014
Marie-Laure Valandro
Lindisfarne Books $25.00
b&w Illustrations
In this book, the author draws on
her deep study of Rudolf Steiner
and Spiritual Science, as well as
the works of Rudolf Hauschka and
Karl König, attempting to bring
greater consciousness to one of
life’s most common and vital activities—eating. Gaining increased
awareness of what we prepare and
put into our body can become a
powerful path toward heightened
consciousness, and is one key to
taking charge of our life and destiny. Through such an initiation,
we can gain the power to read the
great Book of Nature through the
foods we eat, discovering what
stands behind those substances—
the spiritual within the material.
Using stories, words of wisdom
from modern spiritual teachers,
and observations from traveling
the world, the author shows how
we can take charge of our nutrition and become more aware of
ourselves and the world around us.
Marie-Laure Valandro spent her
childhood in Bourgogne, Morocco,
Algeria, and Brittany. She travels
extensively, writes,
gardens, and studies Anthroposophy.
Read an excerpt,
starting on page 90
Living with
Your Body
Health, Illness, and
Understanding the
Human Being
new edition
Walther Bühler
Rudolf Steiner Press $18.00
116 pages
How can we truly understand the
vital questions of health and illness,
which are so much a part of our
everyday lives? Good nutrition, exercise, and relaxation are only some
of the answers, says Bühler. What
we really need is a comprehensive
insight into our true human nature, including the various forces
working within and through us.
In this classic, concise study we are
given a vivid picture of the human
being’s threefold nature, consisting of body, soul, and spirit. The
author analyzes the key aspects of:
the heart (organ of the “heart quality”), the metabolism (relating to
the will), and the sensory-nervous
system (as “mirror of the soul”).
He provides a deeper understanding—and hence a solid basis for
work—for medical professionals,
teachers, therapists, and those seeking support for a healthy lifestyle.
Dr. Walther Bühler (1913–1995) was
born in Germany and studied medicine
and science. He was a cofounder and
director of the Paracelsus Hospital in
Bad Liebenzell-Unterlengenhardt, and
a board member of the Vereins für ein
erweitertes Heilwesen (“Association
for an extended system of medicine”).
He worked extensively as a teacher
and lecturer on issues of public health.
New Books
Water, Birth,
and Sexuality
Pregnancy, Birth
and Beyond
Our Primeval Connection
to Water, and Its Use in
Labour and Therapy
Michel Odent
A Spiritual and
Practical Guide
Erika Gradenwitz-Koehler
Translated by Marie
Hobbs-Vijendran
Clairview Books $20.00
156 pages
This edition of this classic work
features a new Introduction.
In this groundbreaking book,
Dr. Odent starts with the worldfamous work on childbirth at Pithiviers (in north-central France),
where he first noticed the strong
attraction that many women have
toward water during labor. In addition to discovering the practical
advantages of water during the
birthing process, Dr. Odent began to consider the meaning and
importance of water as a symbol.
This book examines the living
power of water and its erotic connotations. It evaluates what water
has meant throughout history and
what it means for us today. He
also explores humanity’s special
relationship to dolphins and the
related “aquatic ape” theory. The
book includes a practical section
on the use of water during birth
and in various therapies, particularly sex therapy.
M i c h e l O d e n t’s
influential work
in childbirth and
health research has
been featured in TV
documentaries and
authoritative medical journals. He is the author of ten
books published in twenty languages.
ISBN: 9781782501282 paperback
floris books $24.95 192 pages
b&w illustrations
Pregnancy and childbirth bring
about significant physical changes
and challenges. Most parents,
however, also have spiritual and
philosophical questions that most
pregnancy books don’t address.
Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond is
an alternative guide to both the
spiritual and practical aspects of
conception, pregnancy, birth, and
infant care.
Erika Gradenwitz-Koehler explains how diet, state of mind, and
the desire for a child can all affect
chances of conception. She gives
advice for a healthy pregnancy in
body, soul, and spirit and helps
prepare parents for the physical and emotional experience of
birthing. Chapters on infant care
include advice for nurturing the
spirit, as well as discussing feeding
and emotional attachment.
Erika Gradenwitz-Koehler is a diplomat and body-mind specialist in the
Netherlands, where she runs regular rebalancing workshops. She has two children and is involved in the Vrije School
Den Haag Steiner-Waldorf school.
Marie Hobbs-Vijendran is a chemical
engineer by training and worked for
ten years as a management consultant.
For the last seven years she has run
courses on mindful birth preparation.
Becoming a Family
The First Three Years
Margaret Shaw
Hawthorn Press $28.00
216 pages
“A helpful companion to intending
family makers and parents.… The
message of this book is the need for
the young family to have a safe place,
a place of containment, warmth, and
rhythm.” —Margie Bruvel, Protea
Becoming a Family explores the
first three intense and joyful years
of the family journey. Raising
children is a lifelong journey and is
never as imagined. It is also a profound personal journey—parents
need to learn to trust their own
inner sense as a guide for health
and truth.
Babies arrive “trailing clouds of
glory,” creating a profound spiritual
and human presence. The author
explores how babies can be welcomed onto Earth with warmth,
love, insight, joy, rhythm, structure,
and sensitive care, which helps lay
healthy physical, psychological,
and spiritual foundations for life.
Becoming a Family follows the
incarnation process of the child,
starting before conception and
going through the first three years.
Margaret Shaw was a mother, Dr.
Hauschka rhythmical masseuse, author, and childbirth and parenting
educator. A qualified working physiotherapist, she pioneered training
for couples for childbirth and trained
childbirth educators. In later years
she coached families of children with
learning difficulties and worked in
healing massage.
Happy Child,
Happy Home
Conscious Parenting
and Creative Discipline
Lou Harvey-Zahra
Lou Harvey-Zahra, an experienced
parenting coach and teacher, helps
parents raise calm, happy children.
Drawing her inspiration from a
background in Waldorf education,
she offers candid, relevant, and humorous advice for looking at family
life, identifying what’s not working,
and exploring ideas for improving
parent-child relationships.
This book addresses issues such as
rhythm and routine, play, storytelling and crafts, and the twelve
senses and four temperaments. Included is an indispensable section
on creative discipline, “tips from
Dad,” and useful suggestions for
making ordinary family moments
extraordinary.
This uplifting parenting guide on
how to raise happy children and
create happy homes is an accessible, readable book that parents
will appreciate for its down-toearth, realistic approach and
insightful counsel.
Lou Harvey-Zahra
grew up and did
her teacher training in England.
She now lives in
Melbourne, Australia, where she
has taught in a number of kindergarten, primary, special needs and
Waldorf school settings. She also runs
conscious parenting workshops.
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New Books
The Art of Acting
Body – Soul – Spirit –
Word: A Practical and
Spiritual Guide
Dawn Langman
Temple Lodge Press $44.00
324 pages
“A remarkable achievement that
communicates a lifetime of teaching artistry with grace and depth,
and, most significantly, reveals the
profound spiritual impulses at the
heart of Michael Chekhov’s original
impulse. A gift for the generations.”
—Dr. Diane Caracciolo, Associate
Professor of Educational Theatre,
Adelphi University
Recent studies acknowledge Michael Chekhov’s personal interest
in Anthroposophy as the source of
his artistic inspiration. Dawn Langman explores the fundamentals of
Chekhov’s psycho-physical acting
technique and the metaphysical
principles on which it is based. She
examines this technique in relation
to the specific challenges and gifts
of the actor’s constitution in body,
soul, and spirit in the context of the
canon of great poetic and dramatic
texts—as illuminated by Steiner’s
insights into humanity’s evolving
consciousness.
D aw n L a n g m a n
trained at the
London School of
Speech Formation
in the method developed by Rudolf
and Marie Steiner.
She also studied Michael Chekhov’s
acting technique at the Actors Ensemble in New York. She teaches drama at
Flinders University in South Australia.
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Storytelling for a
Greener World
The Storytelling
School
Environment, Community,
and Story-based Learning
Edited by Alida Gersie,
Anthony Nanson,
Edward Schieffelin,
Charlene Collison and
Jon Cree; Foreword by
Jonathon Porritt
Handbook for Teachers
368 pages
In a storytelling school the children learn to be storytellers, retelling and improving stories from
memory as a way of learning both
language and subject content
across the curriculum. This approach has been shown to raise
standards and fire imaginations in
schools throughout the UK.
“A powerful tool for change when
placed in the hands of those who
are at the front line of environmental education and campaigning.”
—Rebecca Laughton, author
This handbook offers time-tested
stories, activities, and methods that
educators and storytellers can use
to encourage sound environmental
behavior. Whether it is a brief mention of seeing a skein of geese flying
in an evening sky or children from
a rough area being inspired by kittiwakes, both adults and children
can engage profoundly with nature
through the imaginative power of
story, with lasting personal and
environmental changes.
new edition
Chris Smith, Ph.D.
and Adam Guillain
Foreword by Pie Corbett
hawthorn press $78.00
184 pages
This handbook explains step-bystep how to become a storytelling
school, drawing on more than ten
years of researching and developing this way of teaching. Piloted,
researched and updated, this second edition includes new chapters
on non-fiction teaching and crosscurricular integration across the
school. It is packed with practical
activities, examples, theory, charts,
and diagrams.
147 Traditional
Stories for Primary
School Children
to Retell
Chris Smith, Ph.D.
ISBN: 9781907359392 Ringbound
hawthorn press $78.00
400 pages
“I thoroughly recommend this book.
Chris is a master storyteller and
each story is a gem. Children become
so deeply involved in the language of
stories that they can’t wait to write
their own!” —Dee Bleach, primary
school headteacher, London
This first companion book to The
Storytelling School is the perfect
collection for any teacher who
needs a sourcebook of great traditional stories for children aged
5-11. This book contains 147
stories to retell, with an index
linking the stories to topics, values, plot types, genre, age group,
and country of origin. The stories
come with extensive sources and
alternate print and web versions
for teachers. The stories include
tips for telling, and all are written
in the storyteller’s voice for easy
retelling by teachers and students.
The Timeless Storyteller
available again
Evelyn Francis Capel
ISBN: 9781782500629 Paperback Floris Books $19.95 160 pages
Throughout human history, people have told stories to convey wisdom and truth. The
parables of Jesus Christ are among the most well known of these.
Evelyn Capel studies twelve parables and draws out their relevance today, showing how
they have revealed different truths as human consciousness has developed.
Evelyn Francis Capel (1911-2000) was born in England. She studied at The Christian Community
seminary in Stuttgart and was ordained in 1939. She has written several books.
New Books
Language Teaching
in Steiner-Waldorf
Schools
Insights from Rudolf Steiner
Teaching Foreign
Languages
A Practical Handbook for
Steiner-Waldorf Teachers
Available January 2015
new edition
Erhard Dahl
Johannes Kiersch
This book for teachers provides a
solid basis for the teaching of modern languages in Waldorf schools.
It discusses extensively Rudolf
Steiner’s view of the nature of
language in relation to child development and also the practical
classroom questions of curriculum
and teaching method.
This book will be useful to modern language teachers and anyone
interested in the ideas underlying
Waldorf education.
Johannes Kiersch was born in 1935.
He was a Waldorf teacher in Germany.
Erhard Dahl offers a wealth of
resources and practical help for
teachers. He shows how pupils
develop vocabulary and grammar,
and learn to read in the foreign language. He explores the different approaches needed for Classes 1 to 4,
where, for example, imitation can
be used, to the older years, where
I-specific speech becomes possible.
He also addresses general issues,
such as whether to use a textbook.
Erhard Dahl was born in 1947. He
taught English literature at the University of Paderborn, Germany, and since
1990 has taught at the Uhlandshöhe
Waldorf School in Stuttgart.
Old Freedom Train
A Waldorf Inspired Alphabet
Shayne Jackman
ISBN 9781907359408 Hardcover
Hawthorn Press $26.00 64 pages
Color illustrations
Based on the time-tested Waldorf education
method of introducing
the abstract letters of the
alphabet with enlivening
characterization, this book is a beautifully illustrated
and delightful gem. Each letter is introduced in a
hand-drawn picture, and accompanied by a verse,
poem, or nursery rhyme.
Shayne Jackman lives in Sydney, Australia with her two children.
Creative Speech
Andando Caminos
The Formative Process
of the Spoken Word:
A Selection of Lectures,
Exercises, and Articles
(GA 280)
Teaching Spanish in
Waldorf Schools: A Manual
for All Language Teachers
Elena Forrer
Available again
Rudolf Steiner and
Marie Steiner-von Sivers
Translated by W. Budgett,
N. Hummel, M. Jones
ISBN 9781855843868 paperback
rudolf steiner press $25.00
240 pages
Rudolf Steiner emphatically urged
the cultivation of the art of speech
for Waldorf teachers. The speech
exercises given in 1919, which have
been published over the years in
connection with the educational
work, are included in the first part
of this book. In the second part
are indications Rudolf Steiner
gave within the conferences held
by teachers of the first Waldorf
school in connection with speech
formation and the teaching of the
German language. These remarks
are of great value as they were
evoked through questions that
arose from situations in the various
classes or through questions of the
teachers themselves. Included is a
conversation that took place during
the first High School Course at the
Goetheanum in 1920, which contains previously unpublished indications concerning speech defects.
This seminal work will be a valuable guide to actors, teachers, and
therapists, as well as those who
wish to experience through the
sounds of speech the creative forces at the very foundation of life.
360 pages
Language teachers in Waldorf
schools need more than strategies
for delivering content. The work
of teaching involves a human approach to learning—creativity and
a path of self-discovery.
Andando Caminos offers support in
all aspects of Waldorf Spanish lessons, based on the developmental
levels as children move through the
grades, according to indications
from Rudolf Steiner. It offers practical material on preparing lesson
plans, as well as encouragement
for individual teachers to discover
their own artistry and gifts.
Included are ample materials for
all of the grades, including songs,
folk tales, and legends from the
Hispanic culture. Each piece is
introduced with explanatory text
and everything included has been
tested in the classroom.
Elena Forrer is a
native of Spain.
She trained at the
School of Applied
Arts in Madrid and
at Rudolf Steiner
College in California, where she is a summer faculty
member. She has been teaching at the
San Francisco Waldorf School since
1989, and pioneered its Spanish program. Elena has been a mentor to new
teachers, assessing Spanish programs
in Waldorf schools across the country.
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New Books
Organisations
with Soul
Expanding Tonal
Awareness
A Social Path of Schooling
in the Language of the
Human Soul
Adriaan Bekman
A Musical Exploration
of the Evolution of
Consciousness—from
Ancient Tone Systems to
New Tonalities—Guided
by the Monochord
192 pages
new edition
Adriaan Bekman asks, “How can we Heiner Ruland
connect more deeply with others at ISBN 9781855843950 paperback
work? And connect more whole- Rudolf Steiner Press $44.00
heartedly with our work tasks, so as 200 pages
to create mutual support, respect, “Rudolf Steiner believed that an
meaning, and growth?”
expansion of our tone-system was
Organizations can lack soul. There a necessity.… In this book, we have
can be such a technical, “outer” for the first time an account that
language at work that we lose con- is penetrating enough and of sufnection with each other and with ficiently large scope to enable us to
meaningful communication. In understand why.” —Jürgen Schriefer
sharp contrast, we may speak a soul Heiner Ruland charts a practical
language with close friends which path towards a deepened musical
creates intimacy and vulnerability. understanding, illuminating the
Adriaan Bekman invites us to re- panorama of our musical past.
imagine organizations with our Indicating what may happen—and
soul, so as to enrich everyday work- needs to happen—to music in the
ing life. Paying attention to mean- future, the implications of this
ingful soul language can transform book for composition, musical edrelationships in our communities ucation, and therapy are immense.
and workplaces.
The author shows how the eleUseful for advisors, managers, ments of music embody modes
leaders, and educators, this imagi- of consciousness. He examines
native book reveals the timeless ancient musical systems as well as
wisdom of the forgotten language our own contemporary musical
of the human soul and renews the situation. With the help of the
monochord, and with a minimum
wellsprings of inner life.
of technique, the reader can exAdriaan Bekman, PhD, is founder and
plore new musical realms.
director of IMO—Instituut voor Mens
en Organisatieontwikkeling (Institute
for Human and Organizational Development) in Holland. He is a professor
at Hanze University in the Netherlands
and chairman of the supervisory board
of Bernard Lievegoed University.
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Heiner Ruland taught music at the
Benefeld Rudolf Steiner School in
Germany before developing his own
form of music therapy. Various musical instruments have been developed
according to his suggestions.
The Way of a Child
An Introduction to Steiner
Education and the Basics
of Child Development
A. C. Harwood
Rudolf Steiner Press $18.00
112 pages
Pressured by exams and premature academic demands, and
surrounded by screens and technology, children today face huge
challenges. Childhood itself, it
could be said, is facing a crisis.
Are children in danger of losing
their natural imaginative faculties,
which are the source of all creative
activity in later life? As a society,
are we in danger of losing childhood altogether?
The Tasks and
Content of the
Steiner-Waldorf
Curriculum
new edition
Edited by Martyn Rawson
and Kevin Avison
ISBN: 978-1-78250-042-1 Paperback
Previously published by the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship as
The Educational Tasks and Content
of the Steiner Waldorf Curriculum.
This book is a comprehensive
overview of what is taught in Waldorf schools, and why. As well as
describing the content and methods of the Waldorf curriculum,
this book provides a clear overview
First published in 1940, this book of the ideas behind the approach.
has become a classic introduc- It includes: a summary of the ideas
tion to the perennial themes of underpinning this unique form of
child development and growth, education; a survey of child develas well as the basic principles of opment in relation to the curricuSteiner-Waldorf education. A. C. lum; a description of key elements
Harwood was one of the founding in the Waldorf approach; sections
members of the first Steiner school on evaluation and assessment;
in the English-speaking world, and self-management; early-years
worked for many years as a teacher. education; a horizontal curriculum
His sensitive awareness and respect for Classes 1 to 12; and a vertical
for the innate wisdom of child- curriculum for each subject.
hood shine through his words.
This handbook is indispensable for
Despite the passing of time, the
all Waldorf schools and teachers.
archetypal principles he addresses,
as well as the sympathetic picture Martyn Rawson has taught in Waldorf
of childhood he paints, remain Schools in the UK. He currently lives
in Germany and works for the Interhighly relevant.
A. C. Harwood (1898-1975) was educated at Oxford University, and was
a lifelong friend of the writers Owen
Barfield and C.S. Lewis. He developed
a career as a Waldorf school educator,
and wrote The Recovery of Man in
Childhood and The Way of a Child.
national Waldorf Schools Federation.
Kevin Avison has been a teacher in
both state and Steiner schools, and is
an executive officer to the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship. He has two
grown children who were educated in
Waldorf schools. He lives in England.
New Books
Stargazers’ Almanac 2015
Projective Geometry
Creative Polarities in Space and Time
A Beginner’s Guide to the Visible Sky
Walter Kraul
new edition
Olive Whicher
Rudolf Steiner Press $45.00 292 pages
fully illustrated
ISBN: 9781782500469 Paperback Floris Books
$24.95 144 pages 120 color Illustrations
Olive Whicher
explores the concepts of polarity
and movement
in modern projective geometry
as a discipline
of thought that
transcends the
l i m i te d , r i g i d
space and forms
of Euclid, and
the corresponding material forces conceived
in classical mechanics. Rudolf Steiner underlined the importance of projective geometry as
“a method of training the imaginative faculties
of thinking, so that they become an instrument
of cognition no less conscious and exact than
mathematical reasoning.” This seminal approach allows for precise scientific understanding of the concept of creative fields of formative
(etheric) forces at work in nature—in plants
and animals and in the human being.
This book presents an accessible—nonmathematician’s—approach to projective
geometry. Profusely illustrated, and written
with fire and intuitive genius, it will be helpful
to anyone wishing to cultivate the power of
inner visualization.
Olive Whicher (1910-2006) was born in England and
worked as George Adams’s research assistant in the
fields of science, mathematics, and physics. She taught
at Emerson College, England, and traveled widely as a
lecturer in Europe and the U.S. She authored several
books, including The Plant Between Sun and Earth
(with George Adams), Sunspace: Science At a Threshold of Spiritual Understanding, and The Heart of the
Matter: Discovering the Laws of Living Organisms.
Astronomy for Young
and Old
This book is a perfect introduction to astronomy for anyone, even without a telescope. It
explains the visible constellations and explores
the Sun, Moon, planets, comets, and meteorites.
Color illustrations and diagrams at every stage
help beginners relate what they are reading to
what they can see in the sky.
It is suitable in both the northern and southern
hemispheres, and at all latitudes.
Walter Kraul taught maths and physics at the Rudolf
Steiner School in Munich, Germany. He operates
Spielzeug Kraul, a specialty toy company.
A Monthly Guide to the Stars and
Planets
Bob Mizon
ISBN: 9781782501084 calendar floris books
$25.00 32pp color illustrations
Explore the night skies with this large-format,
illustrated guide to the stars and planets. Designed for naked-eye astronomy—no telescope
required—it is ideal for beginners, children, and
backyard astronomers.
Track the planets, locate the Milky Way, recognize the constellations of the zodiac, and watch
meteor showers. Each monthly chart features
two views of the night sky, looking north and
south, and a visual guide to the phases of the
moon and the movements of the planets. This
guide is suitable in the northern hemisphere’s
temperate (non-tropical) latitudes.
Bob Mizon, MBE, is co-ordinator of the Campaign for
Dark Skies. Since 1996, he has provided a mobile planetarium service to south central England, taking the
experience of the night sky to nearly 80,000 people.
Creative
Form Drawing
Workbooks 1, 2, 3
BACK IN PRINT
Rudolf Kutzli
Foreword and
Translation by
Roswitha Spence
Workbook 1 ISBN: 9780950706283 paperback
hawthorn press $30.00 120 pages
Workbook 3 ISBN: 9781869890384 Paperback
This successful series of three workbooks
offers a thorough, step-by-step guide to
form drawing and encourages people to
explore ways in which forms are created.
The exercises give a fascinating insight into
the relationship between form and content.
Form drawing is an artistic activity using
the art of the line. By following a systematic
series of exercises, drawing skill is developed,
as well as awareness of other inner capacities,
such as self-confidence and equilibrium.
This useful teacher resource is also helpful
for anyone wanting to develop their drawing skills. Simple form drawing is used in
Waldorf schools as a companion discipline
to handwriting and drawing skills.
Workbook 2 ISBN: 9781869890148 Paperback
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New Books
Making Woodland Crafts
Using Green Sticks, Rods, Poles, Beads and String
Patrick Harrison
Foreword and Introduction by Jon Cree; Afterword by Annie Davy
ISBN: 9781907359378 Hardcover hawthorn press $35.00 112 pages fully illustrated
Through a series of hand-drawn illustrations, Making Woodland Crafts is a guide for
making things in the woods. It provides the
knowledge and skills to complete a range of
simple and more advanced projects, from
functional structures to creative outdoor
play forms. These tried-and-tested projects were designed and developed by an
experienced forest school leader over several years while working and
playing with adults and children in woodlands throughout the UK.
You’ll learn to choose and work your wood effectively, use simple tools, tie knots, and develop your own designs to make
masks and puppets, night torches and staffs, arrows, jewelry, ladders, shelters, chairs for stargazing, and much more. The
instructive yet easily adaptable designs encourage the exploration of new ideas.
Patrick Harrison is an accomplished illustrator, experienced outdoor learning practitioner, and trainer of Forest School Leaders.
Vegetable
Gardening for
Organic and
Biodynamic
Growers
Home and Market
Gardeners
Joel Morrow
400 pages
Inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual view of nature, this book
contains biographies of 76 vegetables with detailed accounts of
how to grow them, their climate
of origin, their transformation
over time, and their nutritional
and therapeutic potential.
Joel Morrow was the editor of the journal Biodynamics for over thirty years.
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Metamorphosis
in Nature and Art
Life Forces -Formative Forces
The Dynamic of Form
in Plants, Animals, and
Human Beings
Peter Elsner
Researching the Formative
Energy of Life and Growth
Dorian Schmidt
Introduction by
David Martin, M.D., Ph.D.
ISBN: 9781907359248 Hardcover
432 pages
560 color & b/w illustrations
Drawing on metamorphic principles, Peter Elsner’s profound yet
practical research methods will
help the reader investigate how
living forms develop. Richly illustrated, each chapter ends with
drawing, painting, and sculpture
exercises for enlivening the ability
to think dynamically and visually.
Peter Elsner lives in Helsinki and
teaches sculpture and metamorphosis
at Snellman College in Finland.
248 pages
Dorian Schmidt offers practical
exercises to help us extend our ability to perceive the nature of living
things. He describes the methodology behind this work and several
findings illustrative of observations
in the realm of living forces.
Dorian Schmidt is a biodynamic
gardener. He has worked with The
Institute for Biodynamic Research
in Germany and The Widar Research
Institute in Switzerland.
Stella Natura
2015 Biodynamic
Planting Calendar
Planting Charts and
Thought-Provoking Essays
Edited by
Sherry Wildfeuer
ISBN: 9780985365844 calendar
Camphill Village Kimberton
Hills $14.95 40 pages
short discount
This popular annual planting
calendar includes: a basic introduction to astronomy, a simple
ephemeris, a planting guide, a
star map, an aid for following the
movement of the planets in the
night sky, and inspiring articles by
nine different authors.
Sherry Wildfeuer has gardened biodynamically in the United States,
Switzerland, and England.
New Books
Magic Wool Mermaids,
Fairies and Nymphs
through the Seasons
Woodworking
with Children
Christine Schäfer
$19.95 80 pages color illustrations
Homemade toys stimulate children’s imagination and are often more educational and
fulfilling than shop-bought versions. This
step-by-step guide shows you how to make simple wooden
games and
toys with the
help of little
hands, as well
as bigger projects such as a
garden swing
or sandpit.
color illustrations
Anette Grunditz and Ulf Erixon
Unspun sheep’s wool—magic wool—is a soft,
vibrant material, perfect for making fairies and
characters to suit every season.
Inspired by ancient
tales, myths, and
festivals, this book
features step-bystep instructions,
color photographs,
and diagrams for a
range of wonderful
seasonal projects.
From fluffy Easter
bunnies to shimmering mermaids and magnificent King Winter, this book will spark your
imagination and kick-start your creativity.
It is suitable for both beginners and those who
have experience with needle felting.
Christine Schäfer was born in 1962 in Germany and
trained as an architect. She is the author of Magic
Wool Fairies and Magic Wool Fruit Children.
The book contains thirty fun, child-friendly
projects for both beginners and those who want
more of a challenge. No carpentry or woodworking experience is needed, nor is there any
need for expensive tools and materials.
Anette Grunditz is a project manager in Göteborg,
Sweden. She collaborated on this book with her
partner, Ulf Erixon, an art teacher and illustrator.
Woodworking with Children is the culmination of
many years of doing practical projects with children.
Making Peg Dolls and More
Toys that Spin, Fly and Bring
Sweet Dreams
Margaret Bloom
The companion volume to
Ma k i n g Pe g
Dolls, this book
features 15 new
designs and
p a t te r n s f o r
toys and crafts
to engage children in the processes of making, playing, and
storytelling. It includes step-by-step instructions
for experienced and novice crafters alike. From
simple peg doll necklaces and moving mobiles,
to pin cushions and herbal dream pillows, these
delightful projects will inspire
the entire family.
Margaret Bloom has a Master’s
degree in Counseling Psychology
and is the mother of two children.
She lives in Northern California.
Games Children Sing and Play
Singing Movement Games to Play with Children Ages 3–5
Joan Carr Shimer and Valerie Baadh Garrett
ISBN: 9781907359200 Paperback Hawthorn Press $29.00 128 pages color illustrations
“This book reminds us of the beauty and power of living song and movement. It will nourish children and adults
alike as they share the music together.” —Joan Almon, Alliance for Childhood
“What a delightful collection! The wide range of games is described so clearly that it’s easy to find something to play
with a lucky child or group of children. And then you’ll want to play something else, just because it’s still so much fun to
play and sing.” —Rahima Baldwin Dancy, early childhood educator and author, You Are Your Child’s First Teacher
Here is a treasury of 34 singing and movement games to play with three- to five-year-olds. These games comprise both traditional gems and new games
made for today’s children. The magic weaving of rhythms, movement, songs, stories, and pictures invites children into worlds of vibrant wonder that
will help them feel at ease in their bodies and build relationships with others.
Joan Carr Shimer and Valerie Baadh Garrett are leading spacial dynamics educators, who also draw on Waldorf early-years education.
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New Books
Elsa Beskow 2015 Calendar
A New Day
Ronald Heuninck
ISBN: 9781782500360 Floris Books $13.95
12 x 12 inches 24 pages NON-RETURNABLE
This popular monthly calendar is again illustrated with seasonal artwork from the books
of Elsa Beskow, including Ollie’s Ski Trip; Pelle’s
New Suit; The Land
of Long Ago; Aunt
Green, Aunt Brown
and Aunt Lavender;
Christopher’s Harvest Time; Rosalind
and the Little Deer;
Around the Year;
Woody, Hazel and
Little Pip; Children
of the Forest; The
Curious Fish; and
Peter and Lotta’s
Christmas. Included are the main US,
UK, and Swedish
public holidays.
board
book
Rain or Shine
Ronald Heuninck
board
book
ISBN: 9781782500438 Board Book
This classic, much-loved board book without
text leads young children through the rhythms
of the day. The soft and beautiful illustrations
show children doing everyday activities such as
getting up, having breakfast, feeding the ducks,
making lunch, playing, and enjoying a bedtime
story. (Ages 1-3)
This classic, much-loved board book without
text leads young children through the year. The
soft and beautiful illustrations show children
enjoying outdoor seasonal activities such as
feeding ducks in the spring rain, building sandcastles in the summer sun, playing in autumnal
leaves, and sledding through wintry snow.
Ronald Heuninck is an artist and puppeteer in the
Netherlands. He is married and has three children.
Children will love to spot the detail in each
picture. (Ages 1-3)
How Does My Garden Grow?
Gerda Muller
ISBN: 9781782500377 Hardcover Floris Books $17.95 28 pages
Sophie lives in the city, and her vegetables come from the supermarket. When she visits her
grandparents in the country, she discovers how much there is to learn about how things grow!
Sophie helps her grandfather through the different seasons, finding out about mulching onions, eating flowers,
weeding, bees, making salad, catching beetles, digging,
earthing up, harvesting, and composting. When winter
comes, Sophie has to go home—but her grandfather has
one last surprise for her.
This is a wonderful book for children to learn about
gardening, with characterful illustrations accurately
depicting the garden and its plants through each season. (Ages 3-7)
Gerda Muller was born in 1926 in Naarden, Holland. She attended the Fine Arts School of Amsterdam and the École Estienne of Paris. She has illustrated over 120 books for children, and her books have been translated into many languages.
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New Books
An Illustrated Treasury of
Hans Christian Andersen’s
Fairy Tales
The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina,
The Princess and the Pea and many
more classic stories
new gift edition
Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrated by Anastasiya Archipova
ISBN: 9781782501183 hardback floris books
$16.95 216 pages
This beautiful
gift edition of
Hans Christian
Andersen’s bestloved fairy tales
is designed for
little hands. Each
story is exquisitely illustrated
by Anastasiya
Archipova. (Ages
5 to 8)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Findus Plants Meatballs
Illustrated by Maren Briswalter
Sven Nordqvist
The town of Hamelin is infested with rats. The
people are at their wits’ end. Then a strange man
arrives at the town gates.
It is a beautiful
spring morning. The birds
are singing, the
grass is growing, and small
creatures are
busy ever ywhere, filling
the air with the
gentle buzzing,
rustling song of life returning after winter.
The Pied Piper promises to help rid the town
of the rats. But will they keep their promise to
pay him?
This classic version of the traditional tale is
beautifully brought to life by Maren Briswalter’s
gentle, charming illustrations. (Ages 4-6)
Maren Briswalter is an acclaimed German illustrator. She trained in Dresden and Offenbach and has
illustrated many children’s picture books.
Farmer Pettson sows his vegetables, but since
Findus doesn’t like vegetables, he decides to
plant one of his meatballs instead. However,
keeping the garden safe from the farm animals
proves a hard but hilarious task.
Sven Nordqvist is a leading Swedish children’s illustrator and writer. His children’s books have won
awards in Sweden and Germany.
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish
author. He is best remembered for his fairy tales.
See more of the Findus
series on page 19.
Anastasiya Archipova lives in Moscow.
The Tomtes of Hilltop Stream
Brenda Tyler
ISBN: 9781782500452 Hardcover Floris Books $17.95 32 pages color illustrations
Emily and Jamie live near Hilltop Wood. Through
Hilltop Wood runs Hilltop Stream, and the two
children love to splash and play in its clear water.
One day, they discover the stream has become dark
and dirty, and the otters they used to see have gone.
Jamie and Emily’s Tomte friends help them make
the stream sparkle again, but will the otters return?
This is the third enchanting story by the author of The Tomtes of Hilltop Wood and The Tomtes of
Hilltop Farm. (Ages 3-6)
Brenda Tyler grew up in the New Forest in southern England. She lives in York, England.
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New Books
NEW BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS
The Yule Tomte and
the Little Rabbits
A Christmas Story for Advent
Ulf Stark
Illustrated by Eva Eriksson
The Three Wise Men
Katy’s Christmas Gift
A Christmas Story
Loek Koopmans
Bernadette Watts
ISBN: 9781782501350 hardcover
All the forest
animals are
preparing for
the arrival of
Christmas.
But will the
grumpy Yule
Tomte visit
the rabbit
children?
Long, long ago, a very special star appeared
in the night sky. It shone more brightly than
all the other stars. Three wise men called
Melchior, Caspar, and Balthasar had never
seen anything like it before.
Loek Koopmans’ retelling of one part of the
Christmas story is full of life and character,
as well as mystery and wonder. (Ages 3-6)
Loek Koopmans is the author and illustrator of
The Little Christmas Tree.
Katy sets out in the snow to visit the new
baby born in the innkeeper’s stable. She is
bringing special gifts: a loaf of bread, her cat
Sasha and, most importantly, her favorite
toy—a wooden bird whistle.
Katy’s Christmas Gift is a heart-warming and
original version of the Christmas story for
young children. (Ages 4-7)
Bernadette Watts is an award-winning illustrator.
She lives in England.
This festive story is told in twenty-five chapters—one for each day of Advent. (Ages 5-8)
Ulf Stark is an award-winning author and screenwriter. He lives in Sweden.
Eva Eriksson is one of Europe’s best-loved children’s illustrators. She lives in Sweden.
The Snow Girl
Robert Giraud; Illustrated by Hélène Muller
ISBN: 9781782501329 hardback floris books
Once there was an old man and woman who didn’t have
any children. One day they build a snow-girl in their
garden—and are astonished when she comes to life. But
what willl happen when spring comes, and the snow melts?
This is a classic story of dreams coming true. (Ages 3-6)
Robert Giraud (1921-1997) was a French journalist and the
author of over thirty books.
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New Books
NEW BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS
Nativity Plays
for Children
Making a Nativity Scene
Christmas Figures and Animals
for a Seasonal Display
Viola Ulke
Celebrating Christmas
through Movement and Music
Wilma Ellersiek
over 200 color illustrations
color & B/W illustrations
These simple Christmas plays in rhyming
verse, with music, lyrics, and directions
for movement, are ideal for kindergarten
and homeschooling, up to the age of six or
seven. The easy-to-follow plays build on
well-known nativity stories to create a joyful
and memorable experience for educators,
parents, and children. The book presents a
basic core version of each play, with optional
additions for older children. It also contains
tips for creating props and simple costumes.
Nativity Plays for Children is an invaluable
tool for anyone keen to celebrate the nativity
creatively with the children in their care.
Wilma Ellersiek (1921-2007) was a teacher of music, movement, and speech at the Stuttgart Music
Academy, as well as a stage director of opera and
drama. Her research into the effects of rhythm,
movement, and language on the young child led
to the development of the first gesture games.
This book has fully illustrated, step-by-step
instructions for making all the main figures
in a nativity scene: Mary, Joseph, Jesus, the
angel, the donkey, shepherds, kings, camels,
and stable animals. There are instructions for
a variety of stables, and advice on decorating
the display. No special skills or expensive
materials are needed. The book also includes
a Christmas play and songs with music.
Viola Ulke has many years of experience in
creative work with children and adults.
Advent and
Christmas Stories
A Treasury of Stories, Verses,
and Songs
Estelle Bryer and Janni Nicol
“A rich source of material for parents looking for new ways to celebrate Christmas and
Epiphany. It will inspire people everywhere
to create a festival that truly encompasses the
spirit of Christmas for children.” —Winnie
Mossman, Kindergarten, Bristol Steiner
School, England
Estelle Bryer and
Janni Nicol offer
this treasury of
over fifty stories,
verses, and songs,
ranging from
Advent through
the twelve days
o f Ch r i s t m a s
and ending with
the flight to Egypt.
Their approach is simple yet profound and draws on their lifelong
experience as Waldorf kindergarten educators, puppeteers, and mothers.
These stories will delight young children and
invite parents and teachers to become more
confident storytellers.
Estelle Bryer taught Waldorf kindergarten and
eurythmy for over forty years. She is an author
and well-known South African puppeteer.
Janni Nicol, daughter of Estelle Bryer, is a kindergarten educator, advisor, and writer on Waldorf
education and creative play.
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Picture Books for the Young Child
The Sun Seed
Written and Illustrated by Jan Schubert
Soon the little
seedling push
through the
ed right
earth and
into the air.
she was surro
Suddenly,
unded by
bright sunsh
“Aaah,” she
ine.
said in wond
er, opening
leaves wide
her
to the warm
th and light.
ISBN: 9780880105859 hardcover bell pond books
$17.95 32 pages illustrated in color felt pictures
This simple and charming story for a young child lovingly illustrates the
natural cycle of the plant world. A little Sun Seed follows the cycle of spring
into summer into fall into winter as she grows from seedling to golden flower.
At last, bowing her head, she gives up her seeds to Mother Earth, who gathers them
and wraps them in a blanket of leaves for their long winter sleep. (Ages 3-5)
About the Illustrations
The special illustrations in The Sun Seed are made of dyed wool fibers, felted together to create a solid piece of “fabric.” Jan has employed
a technique known as “dry” or “needle felting.” In this process one uses a small hand tool called a felting needle, which has barbs along
the shaft that catch the fibers and bind them together as the needle pierces the surface of the wool. Wherever one pokes the wool with
the needle, it sticks and adheres to the fabric. Jan Schubert describes the experience as “painting with a needle.”
Books for
children
ages 3-6
The Carpenter’s
Daughter
Written and Illustrated
by Daniel C. Bryan
isbn: 9780946206384
Paperback Wynstones Press $7.00 22 pages
A master carpenter, accompanied by his young
daughter, builds a teahouse for a great emperor
in the Garden of Tranquility.
Whispey
Estelle Bryer; Illustrated by Carol Nelson
isbn: 9780946206643 paperback Wynstones Press $9.95 24 pages
Whispey the gnome loves his wonderous beard. He combs and
curls and brushes it so much that he does not have time to work.
Brother Wind decides to teach him a lesson—but all ends well!
The Frog Prince
Illustrated by Annelise Twentyman
One of the most important fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm.
The introduction reveals the soul qualitites inherent within this
tale and explains in detail the developmental background behind
the story, and its importance for young children today.
The Nettle and the Butterfly
The Harvest Story
isbn: 9780946206377 Paperback Wynstones Press $7.00 18 pages
The main stages of the development of a Peacock butterfly are
both accurately and imaginatively described in rhyming verse.
A delightful journey through the seasons with the farmer, from winter
rest through autumn harvesting.
Wendy the Whale
Sun and Seed
ISBN: 9780946206711 Paperback Wynstones Press $9.95 28 pages
This fascinating piece of oral history from the 1930s was originally
told to a friend of the author by an elderly fisherman.
The growing seed wakes from Winter sleep and grows through Spring
sun and rain to the splendor of Summer blossom.
Birthday
Looking for a Fairy
isbn: 9780946206407 Paperback Wynstones Press $10.00 16 pages
This story tells of the young children who are waiting to travel with
Father Time from Heaven down to Earth on their birthday.
Over branches and through fields and across a muddy stream, a boy
with gentle curiosity goes looking for a Fairy.
Daniel C. Bryan; Illustrated by Angela Bryan
Alexander Williams; Illustrated by Lucy Newton
Norah Romer; Illustrated by Heather Jarman
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Elizabeth Reppel; Illustrated by Anne Stockton
Written and Illustrated by Daniel C. Bryan
Judith Adams; Illustrated by Caroline Mason
Board Books for the Young Child
Four colorful little chunky boardbooks without text take young children through the year
with delightful pictures of seasonal activities. Illustrated by Gerda Muller (Ages 1-5)
Spring
Autumn
ISBN: 9780863151934 Boardbook
Spring shows children playing with
lambs, sowing seeds, painting Easter
eggs, and watching baby birds.
Autumn shows children playing in
leaves, collecting conkers, flying kites,
and making jam.
Summer
Winter
Summer shows children fishing for
tadpoles, playing at the beach, eating ice
cream, and enjoying a picnic.
Winter shows children shoveling
snow, ice-skating, feeding birds, and
celebrating Christmas.
Goodnight
Pip the Gnome
Illustrated by
Marjan van Zeyl
Admar Kwant
ISBN: 9780946206612
Board Book
Wynstones Press
$16.95 10 pages
Goodnight is a “concertina”
book, with five sections that
fold out to four feet long.
The beautiful, soft watercolor pictures follow the child’s journey into sleep,
through the night, and to waking in the morning. (Ages 3-6)
Hannah on the Farm
Pip the gnome plays happily with his
woodland friends: the mouse, the robin,
the wren, and the spider. Follow them
through spring, summer, and into autumn and winter.
The colorful illustrations and simple
words introduce very young children to
the seasons. Perfect for bedtime, the story ends as we look up at the stars
and say “good night” to Pip. (Ages 1–3)
Marjan van Zeyl
Hannah the hen is looking everywhere
for a quiet place to lay her eggs so that
she can have her very own chicks. But the
pigs grunt too loudly, the lambs are too
playful, the cows are too clumsy… Can
Hannah find a nice quiet place where her
eggs will be safe?
This charming board book for very young children introduces farmyard
animals and their individual characteristics. (Ages 1-3)
Hello Farm,
How Do You Do?
Marjolein Thiebout
Illustrated by Loes Botman
This colorful board book introduces
young children to farm animals and
the sounds they make, with rich,
colorful illustrations and delightful,
rhyming text. (Ages 1-4)
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Daniela Drescher
Little Fairy’s Meadow Party
ISBN: 9781782500100 hardcover floris books $16.95 24 pages
Faith, the little fairy, and her animal friends have been invited to Queen Wren’s Meadow Party.
But she needs a very special dress to dance in.
Can she make a dress from berries and nuts, or flowers and mushrooms? Nothing seems right
until she meets the moon, who has a wonderful gift for her.
This serene and magical story has beautiful illustrations that will captivate young children.
(Ages 3-6)
Daniela Drescher was born in Munich and trained in
art therapy. She has worked with children for several
years and is an illustrator for a parenting magazine.
She is the author of In the Land of Fairies, In the
Land of Elves, In the Land of Merfolk, What’s Hiding
in There?, Merlina and the Magic Spell, Little Fairy’s
Christmas, and Lily the Little Princess.
Lily the Little Princess
ISBN: 9780863159053 Hardcover Floris Books
$16.95 24 pages
Lily the little princess loves to dance with her animal friends
in the summer. But when winter comes her playmates all go
to sleep or fly away to warmer places. In spring, Lily sets off
through the forest in search of someone like her, someone
who also wants to play in the winter.
Lily is helped on her way by an old tree, a badger and a hedgehog, until she discovers her perfect companion. (Ages 3-6)
Little Fairy Can’t Sleep
$16.95 24 pages
Faith, the little fairy, can’t get to sleep. It’s a lovely summer’s
night, so she flies off to see who else is still awake. Faith
meets a mother fox and her young cubs, an elf father and his
children, and the sandman who is filling sacks with magic
dust to help children everywhere get to sleep. Finally she
meets a moth-fairy prince who takes her to the source of
the night’s magic—a wonderful party—where she dances
until she is so tired that she finally falls asleep.
This dreamlike tale makes perfect bedtime reading. (Ages 3-7)
Merlina and the Magic Spell
$16.95 24 pages
It’s harvest time, and Merlina the little sorceress and her
friend Igor the dragon are busily gathering fruit and vegetables from their garden. When Igor steps on a sharp thorn,
Merlina has to find the right spell to make his toe better. A
perfect Halloween story for young children, with owls, bats,
spiders, toads, pumpkins, and, of course, magic! (Ages 3-6)
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Daniela Drescher
In the Land of Fairies
In the Land of Elves
In the Land of Merfolk
ISBN:9780863159947 Hardcover Floris
Books $15.95 24 pages NEW edition
Daniela Drescher’s atmospheric watercolor illustrations reveal the secret lives of fairies, elves, and water spirits in their
magical world, hidden within nature. Follow them through the seasons and discover how they work and play. (Ages 4-7)
What’s Hiding
In There?
Lift the
ok
Flap Bo
Young children love exploring the world of elves and
fairies, and this time there’s more to discover! Lift the
three or four flaps on each page to discover what’s
hiding in the old tree, in the nest, in the grass, and
under the leaves.
The simple text in this entertaining picture book asks
“what’s hiding in there?” (Ages 3-6)
Daniela Drescher was born in Munich, Germany and trained in art
therapy before living for a time in
America and Switzerland. She has
worked intensively with children in
a therapeutic capacity for ten years
and currently provides illustrations
for a parenting magazine.
See more books illustrated by Daniela Drescher: An Illustrated Treasury
of Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Over the Hills and Far Away (p. 35)
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Sibylle von Olfers
The Story of
King Lion
The Story of the
Snow Children
The Story of the
Butterfly Children
The Story of the
Wind Children
Mini Edition ISBN: 9780863159091
Hardcover $9.95
Far, far away, the butterfly children
live in a kingdom of beautiful gardens. They play all day long with
their little brothers and sisters,
the caterpillars. They can hardly
wait until they finally get their
wings. But first
they must learn
about the many
brightly colored
flowers in the
gardens, so they
can take part in
the grand procession. (Ages 3-5)
George is playing with his boats,
but there’s no wind to make them
sail. Then a wind child comes and
blows just for him, and they embark on a great adventure. After the
wind child blows the dandelions
in the meadows,
s h a ke s a pp l e s
from the tree, and
blows the leaves
all around, they
ride fluffy cloud
horses back home
across the sky.
(Ages 3-5)
King Lion is having a feast and all
his animal subjects contribute to
the celebration by bringing him
their favorite meal. But which dish
will he like the best? (Ages 4-6)
Poppy realizes that the snowflakes
in her garden are actually Snow
Children, who whisk her away to
the Snow Queen’s wintry kingdom. (Ages 3-5)
The Story of the
Root Children
Mini Edition ISBN:
9780863152481 Hardcover $9.95
This is a classic story of the changing seasons. The root children
spend the winter asleep. When
spring comes, they wake, sew
themselves new gowns, and clean
and paint the beetles and bugs. All
summer they play in fields, ponds, and meadows before returning in the autumn to Mother Earth, who welcomes them home
and puts them to bed once more. (Ages 3-7)
My First boa
rd
Root
book
Children
Floris BookS $9.95 10 pages
The classic, bestselling Story of the
Root Children is presented for the
first time as a board book for very
young children. While the overall
story remains the same, the language has been simplified. All
of the beautiful original illustrations are included, with some
sympathetically adapted to fit the new format. (Ages 1-3)
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The Story
of the
Rabbit
Children
ISBN: 9780863157318
Hardcover
Floris Books
$17.95 24 pages
A kind mother rabbit takes two lost children home and cares
for them. She makes them rabbit suits to
keep them warm, and they play happily with
her children. They are reunited with their
father when their clever dog finds something
strangely familiar about them. (Ages 3-6)
The
Princess
in the
Forest
ISBN: 9780863151897
Hardcover
Floris Books
$17.95 28 pages
A little princess
lives in a castle in the forest where the nature folk are her friends and companions.
(Ages 3-7)
The Story of Little
Billy Bluesocks
This charming
story, told in
verse, shares
a day in the
life of a funloving little
boy. Little
Billy Bluesocks wakes
up, plants a
seed, feeds the rabbits, plays on the
seesaw with his dog, picks apples,
has a delicious supper, and finally
goes to bed. (Ages 2-5)
Sven Nordqvist
The Findus SEries
Written and Illustrated by
Sven Nordqvist
Findus and Farmer Pettson live in a ramshackle
cottage in the country, with a henhouse,
workshop, and woodshed.
Their hilarious, magical world is inhabited by
tiny creatures who move Farmer Pettson’s
things about when he isn’t looking.
When Findus
Was Little and
Disappeared
One day when Findus was little, he
went exploring and got lost. The
search for Findus is set among the
forests and fields of rural Sweden,
and every picture is a fascinating,
magical world of tiny creatures.
(Ages 5-8)
Pancakes for Findus
Farmer Pettson wants to bake a
birthday cake for his cat Findus, who
has three birthdays a year. But how
will they get the eggs with the bull
in the way? (Ages 5-8)
Findus
and the
Fox
ISBN: 9781903458877
Hardcover Hawthorn Press
$22.00 28 pages
There’s a hen-hunting fox on the
loose. But Farmer Pettson and his
quirky cat Findus agree that foxes
should not be killed—they should
be tricked. Farmer Pettson and
Findus come up with a plan that
leads to an explosive, unforgettable night. (Ages 5-8)
Findus Goes
Camping
Farmer Pettson is in the attic looking for a bag of fishing floats and
starts to dream about how much
fun it would be to camp by the lake
and grill fish over the fire as the
sun is setting ... That’s not exactly
how things turn out. But Findus,
Pettson, and the hens try camping—in the garden. (Ages 5-8)
“The stories are ingenious,
the characters are quirky
and original, and the
illustrations are absolutely
delightful… I can’t
recommend them highly
enough. Hurrah for Findus!”
—Philip Pullman, author,
His Dark Materials trilogy
Where Is My Sister?
This picture book takes you on a
balloon journey through a fabulous
fantasy world when a little mouse
goes looking for his sister, who is
hidden on each richly illustrated
full-page spread. Can you find her?
The stunning pictures with subtle
historical art references can be enjoyed by both children and adults.
(Ages 3 and up)
Findus Moves Out
Every day at four o’clock in the morning, Findus likes to jump up and
down on his bed. He wakes Farmer Pettson, who tells him to stop. Because cats really need their early morning exercise, Findus decides to
find a house of his own where he can jump and bounce when he likes.
But jumping on beds is one thing... living without Farmer Pettson is
quite another. (Ages 5-8)
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Elsa Beskow
Emily and Daisy
The Curious Fish
The Land of Long Ago
ISBN: 9780863157714 Hardcover Floris
Books $17.95 32 pages
Emily is a helpful little girl, so when her mother
is worried that Daisy the cow will escape into
the clover field through a hole in the fence, she
offers to go and look after Daisy for the day.
When Flash, a very curious little fish, is caught
and held prisoner on dry land, his aunts and
uncles are determined to save him. But how can
they leave the water to go to his rescue? With
the help of a wise old frog and a little magic,
even the most unlikely wishes can come true.
Kelly and Kai love to play on the gnarled old
tree trunk outside their cottage in the woods:
sometimes it becomes a horse, sometimes a
crocodile, and sometimes even a dragon.
On the way, she meets a big dog, a boastful
boy, and an old man with a sack. But when
she gets to the meadow, she realizes she needs
help with Daisy, and to mend the fence. Who
can she turn to?
Young children will enjoy following Emily
through her day as unexpectedly good things
keep coming her way. (Ages 3-6)
Children will delight in the wonderful characters of the lake and the extraordinary adventures of Uncle Pike, Uncle Bream, and Aunt
Flounder. (Ages 3-6)
One day a mischievous gnome makes the tree
trunk come to life, and the children are whisked
off to the Land of Long Ago on the back of the
old tree dragon. On their incredible journey
Kelly and Kai meet a princess, rescue a knight,
and trick the king of the trolls. But will the old
tree dragon stay alive long enough to bring
them home again? (Ages 4-6)
THE Elsa Beskow Baby Book
Memories of Your Baby’s Early Years
ISBN: 9781782500063 HARDCOVER Floris Books
$19.95 60 PAGES color illustrations
This beautiful baby record book is illustrated throughout with Elsa
Beskow’s classic artwork. With plenty of room for photographs
and keepsakes, parents and grandparents can record all the important developments and happy memories in their child’s early
life, to share in the years to come.
Each page is fully illustrated with Beskow’s charming depictions
of children, taken from her picture books which have been loved
for over a century.
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Elsa Beskow
Children of the Forest
The Sun Egg
Peter’s Old House
$17.95 32 pages
$17.95 32 pages
$17.95 28 pages
The children of the forest live deep in the roots
of a pine tree. Follow their adventures through
each season as they play hide with the squirrels
and throw snowballs in winter. (Age 3-5)
A mysterious orange egg has fallen into the
woods. “It’s a sun egg!” declares the elf who
finds it. Soon she and her friends find out what
it really is, but not before the elf goes off on the
best adventures! (Ages 3-6)
Peter builds boats for the children in his village,
shows visitors around in ten different languages,
and is the village doctor and handyman. But
Peter’s old house is falling apart, so all his
neighbors come to help him fix it. (Ages 5-8)
Mini edition ISBN: 9780863154973
$9.95
Peter in Blueberry Land
$9.95
Peter is looking for blueberries for his mother’s
birthday, but can’t find any. He feels a tap on his
shoe, and a magical adventure begins. (Ages 4-6)
The Tale
of the Little,
Little Old
Woman
Mini Edition ISBN 9780863154980
new Edition
$17.95 32 pages
$9.95
Around the Year
$17.95 32 pages
Delightful verses and pictures take us through
the 12 months of the year. (Ages 4-6)
Mini Edition ISBN: 9780863156489
ISBN: 9781782500940
Hardcover
This is a simple tale about a little, little old woman who lives in a little, little cottage with a little,
little cat who makes BIG trouble. (Ages 3-6)
$9.95
Christopher’s Harvest Time
$17.95 32 pages
Christopher meets the spirit of September and
all the harvest folk: the gooseberry girls and boys,
Old Man Black Currant, Mrs. Bramley, Misses
Plum, and the proud Strawberries. (Ages 5-7)
the Flowers’ Festival
Pelle shears his lamb and gets the wool carded,
spun, dyed, woven and made into a fine new
suit. (Ages 3-6)
A lucky little girl is invited by the flower fairies
to the Midsummer festival. The flowers and
bumblebees and birds tell their enchanting
stories, while Pea-blossom and the Dew-cups
serve refreshments. (Ages 4-6)
isbn: 9780863150920 Hardcover Floris Books
$17.95 30 pages
$9.95
$17.95 32 pages
This enchanting picture book describes
woodland scenes in the autumn when two
acorn children get blown away in the wind.
(Ages 4-6)
$9.95
$9.95
Ollie’s Ski Trip
$17.95 30 pages
Six-year-old Ollie is given his first pair of real
skis, and when the thick snow falls at last, he
sets off by himself and meets with all kinds
of adventures in the palace of King Winter.
(Ages 4-6)
$17.95 32 pages
Pelle’s New Suit
Woody, Hazel, and Little Pip
$9.95
Elsa Beskow (1874-1953) was a pioneering
author and illustrator of children’s books
in Sweden. Her books were inspired by her
own childhood experiences, as well as those
of her six children. Central themes were the
relationships between children and adults,
and children’s independent initiative. Her
books have been known and loved for over
a century and are continually reprinted, and
many have become classics.
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Elsa Beskow
The Children of Hat Cottage
Princess Sylvie
Rosalind and the Little Deer
ISBN: 9780863158551 hardcover Floris Books
$17.95 32 pages
$17.95 28 pages
$17.95 32 pages
Three children and their mother live in a cottage shaped like a hat on a little island. One
day their mother goes to the mainland to find
yarn to make the children new clothes. While
she’s away the children try to help around the
house, but housework is much harder than they
thought. Will Hat Cottage be standing when
their mother returns?
Princess Sylvie persuades her father, the king,
to leave the palace gardens and walk in the
woods. The king is unsure. What might be in the
woods? Then Sylvie’s dog Oskar runs off after a
long-eared hare and Sylvie’s adventures begin.
Rosalind loves to play with her little deer in the
shade of the lime tree. Then one day a hunter
comes along with his dog and frightens the deer
away. The poor little deer is captured by a king
and kept in a golden cage, but it refuses to eat.
Rosalind tries to persuade the king to part with
his pet and set the deer free. (Ages 4-7)
This is a charming story about getting help from
unexpected places. (Ages 3-6)
This is a delightful story for young children
about exploring new places and making new
friends, and about the comforts of home.
(Ages 4-7)
Aunt Green,
Aunt Brown and
Aunt Lavender
The first of the classic Peter and
Lotta books, this book is filled with
Elsa Beskow’s characteristic humor
and charm. It tells how Peter and
Lotta come to meet the three colorful sisters known as Aunt Green,
Aunt Brown, and Aunt Lavender.
(Ages 5-8)
AUNT BROWN’S
BIRTHDAY
For Aunt Brown’s birthday, her sisters want to buy her a new hat and
lace collar to match her dress. But
they need to borrow her dress, and
how will they do that without spoiling their surprise? (Ages 5-8)
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Uncle Blue’s
New Boat
Peter and Lotta and their three eccentric aunts are invited for a
summer picnic with Uncle Blue and
his new rowboat. (Ages 5-8)
Peter and Lotta’s
Adventure
Peter and Lotta have a day full of
adventures, including the going to a
fair. (Ages 5-8)
Peter and Lotta’s
Christmas
Peter and Lotta discover where
Christmas presents come from.
(Ages 5-8)
Where Do They Go
When It Rains?
Goran’s Great Escape
Gerda Muller
In the Land of Twilight
In this wonderfully detailed book you can find
out just what happens to cats, geese and sheep,
a donkey, chickens, sparrows, a spider, bees, a
pony and pigs, butterflies, midges, and ladybirds
when it rains. (Ages 3-6)
Gerda Muller has illustrated over 120 books and her
books have been translated into many languages. She
is the author of the popular board books, Summer,
Fall, Winter, and Spring.
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrated by Marit Törnqvist
Translated by Polly Lawson
Goran has an injured leg and is bored spending
so much time in bed. But when his mother turns
out the light at night, Mr. Lilyvale knocks on the
window and takes him to the Land of Twilight,
where they have many exciting adventures. At
the end of their journey each morning, Mr.
Lilyvale always brings Goran home just before
his mother comes to wake him.
Astrid Lindgren
Translated by Polly Lawson
Goran the bull breaks loose from his stall and
charges out into the farmyard. People gather
from miles around to see the raging bull, but
no one will dare to cross Goran’s path. Karl, the
young farm boy, has a plan.
This is a delightful story with beautifully observed and rendered illustrations of old-time
Swedish families and farm life. (Ages 4-7)
This delightful story about the power of the
imagination is set in a magical version of
Stockholm. (Ages 5-8)
Astrid Lindgren (1906-2002) was a well-known
Swedish writer whose award-winning works renewed
children’s literature in Scandinavia.
A Year Around the Great Oak
Gerda Muller
ISBN: 9780863159466 Hardcover Floris Books $17.95 32 pages
From The New York Times online children’s Book Review:
Substantial and fact-filled. Beautifully illustrated ... children engage with animals and the
outdoors in ways that are unpredictable, stimulating, and ultimately confidence-inducing.
Benjamin and Anna often visit their cousin who lives near
a big forest, where they meet his favorite tree—a great
oak that is 300 years old. In autumn, the children collect
mushrooms in the forest, build a den under the giant oak
branches, and watch squirrels hide acorns in its wide,
gnarled trunk. In winter, they see a pair of owls in the
bare branches. In spring, when the first new leaves appear
they see many animals that make their homes in the forest—nesting birds, gentle deer, shy rabbits, and night-time
badgers. One night, the great oak helps Benjamin when he discovers a creature he didn’t expect.
At the end of the summer they all have a party to celebrate the great oak tree. (Ages 3-6)
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Winter, Awake!
Theo, The Blue Rider Pigeon
The Helpful Elves
Linda Kroll
Illustrated by Ruth Lieberherr
Christine Sierau
Illustrated by Rose Tannenbaum
August Kopisch
Illustrated by Beatrice Braun-Fock
Bell Pond Books $11.95 32 pages
The sun hung low in southern skies.
The days grew short; the nights were long,
With bright Orion striding high
Above the quiet farms and towns.
At last the harvest work was done.
The stalks of corn were stacked in shocks.
Potatoes, pumpkins, apples, plums
Were picked and canned and stored and packed.
The wren and robin young were grown.
Their songs had ceased; the flocks were gone.
Great vees of geese had honked good-bye.
The monarch butterflies had flown.
But still fall lingered, fair and fine,
With misty mornings, hazy days,
While waiting nature watched for hints
Of cutting cold and bitter winds,
For sullen skies of snowy flakes.
But Winter would not wake.
It was a cold and blustery November night at Blue
Rider Stables. The horses were huddled safely
inside. The girls who worked at the barn had
closed the heavy door against the storm. What a
surprise when, the next morning, a pigeon was
found limping around inside.
When the lazy people of Cologne go to sleep,
the helpful elves do all their work. They measure
and saw for the carpenter, knead and mix for
the baker, carve and chop for the butcher, taste
and pour for the winemaker, and snip and sew
for the tailor. But no one ever sees them. Until
one day the tailor’s wife becomes curious…
Join Theo as he becomes part of the rich and
varied family that inhabits Blue Rider Stables.
Illustrated in vibrant watercolors. (Ages 3-5)
Christine Sierau is executive director and head riding
instructor of Blue Rider Stables in North Egremont,
Massachusetts.
This classic book is based on a poem by August
Kopisch. It is brought to life with humorous
illustrations by Beatrice Braun-Fock. Printed
on thick paper, it features delightful cut-out
sections on each page. (Ages 3-6)
Rose Tannenbaum lives in the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts. She is a graphic designer and illustrator.
August Kopisch (1799–1853) specialized in retelling
popular legends.
Beatrice Braun-Fock (1898–1973) illustrated over
fifty children’s picture books between 1919 and 1960.
The coming of winter plays an important role in
the cycle of nature. This delightfully illustrated
verse story tells what happens one year when
Winter will not wake. All the woodland creatures try to tell Winter their work is done. They
scold and mock and urge, but Winter will not
wake, until, at last, the round red ladybug in her
small, soft voice whispers something gently in
his ear—and mighty Winter wakes! (Ages 5-7)
Linda Kroll has been a storyteller, an elementary
school tutor, a high school English and drama teacher,
and a college literature instructor.
Ruth Lieberherr has exhibited her paintings in the
United States, France, and her native Switzerland.
What Julianna Could See
Paul Margulies
Illustrated by Famke Zonneveld
This radiant picture
book was written
for Julianna Margulies—the film actor
and star of the hit
television series “The Good Wife”—when she was six years
old. Her father, Paul Margulies, captures the pure openness of
a child’s imagination. His reflections on what Julianna could
see remind us, young and old, that life’s riches can come to us through our loving attention to the
simple and “ordinary.” The vibrant images by Famke Zonneveld bring this book to life. (Ages 5-7)
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Talking Eagle
and the
Lady of Roses
The Story of Juan Diego and
Our Lady of Guadalupe
by Amy Córdova with Eugene Gollogly
Waldorf Alphabet Book
Talking Eagle and
the Lady of Roses
Illustrated by Famke Zonneveld
Afterword by William Ward
In this delightful, best-selling alphabet and
game book for young children, each consonant
and vowel comes to life in vivid pictures that
show each letter’s unique qualities in the world.
This is the alphabet book for parents and teachers who want to encourage the most natural
development in children. It is ideal for both at
home and in the classroom, and includes an
essay on learning to read and write in Waldorf
schools. (Ages 4-6)
Famke Zonneveld (1938-2005) was trained at the
Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Netherlands.
She was an artist and teacher for many years. Her
art works are included in numerous public and
private collections.
The Story of Juan Diego and
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Amy Córdova, with Eugene Gollogly
“Jewel-toned illustrations illuminate this
tale of the first indigenous saint in the
Americas. This version
of the familiar story
is dramatic and bold,
affirming the worth
and celebrating the perseverance of the poor and
downtrodden.” —Kirkus
This is the traditional story, told simply and
elegantly for children, of how Talking Eagle
became Juan Diego and met the beautiful Lady
of Roses, Nuestra Señora Guadalupe. Also
included is an informative afterword by Eugene
Gollogly. (Ages 5-8)
Amy Córdova and
Eugene Gollogly
Amy Córdova is an artist
and storyteller who has
been recognized for her
work as an illustrator of
children’s books.
Eugene Gollogly is CEO and President of Booklight
Inc. and Lantern Books and Director of SteinerBooks.
Mr. Goethe’s Garden
Diana Cohn; Illustrated by Paul Mirocha
Set in the 1830s, this is the story of the
friendship between an inquisitive young
girl and her elderly neighbor, the worldfamous German playwright, artist, and
natural scientist Johann von Goethe.
Anna visits Mr. Goethe in his well-tended
garden, where she learns to draw and to
look at the world in a very special way. Inspired by Goethe’s life and
his botanical treatise The Metamorphosis of the Plant, this book contains sensitive illustrations and elegant text that reveal the intricate wonders of the plant kingdom. (Ages 6-9)
Namaste!
Diana Cohn
Illustrated by Amy Córdova
Afterword by Ang Rita Sherpa
ISBN: 9781621480051 PAPERBACK SteinerBooks
$9.95 32 pages
Nima Sherpa
lives in Nepal.
Every day, on her
way to school,
whenever Nima
sees someone,
she brings her
hands together,
bows her head slightly, and says “Namaste” ~ the
light in me meets the light in you. Woven into
this simple, gentle story about recognizing and
honoring the sacred in each other are delightful
details of daily life in Nepal. With a glossary of
terms and an informative afterword by Ang Rita
Sherpa of The Mountain Institute. (Ages 5-8)
Diana Cohn is an award-winning children’s book
author.
Roses for Isabella
Diana Cohn; Illustrated by Amy
Córdova; Afterword by Lynn Lohr
ISBN: 9780880107310
Hardcover
SteinerBooks
$9.95 32 pages
“Colorful folk-art style
drawings add an authenticity to this South
American tale… The
important message
about environmental
concerns and equitable
working conditions
dominates.” —Kirkus
This story invites us
to experience life in
Ecuador through the Diana Cohn (l) and Amy
eyes of a young girl Córdova (r) with Marcela
who loves to write. Chorlango, President of
The reader is intro- the Workers Committee
duced to the cultural traditions of Ecuador and
the importance of making choices that support
Fair Trade products. (Ages 5-8)
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Silver Bells and
Cockle Shells
The Pancake that Ran Away
Illustrated Classic Nursery Rhymes
Illustrated by
Henriette Willebeek Le Mair
ISBN:9780863151743 hardcover Floris Books
$14.95 24 pages
Nannie Kuiper
Illustrated by Alex de Wolf
Three old ladies make a lovely fat pancake and
are looking forward to eating it. Suddenly the
pancake jumps out of the pan and rolls towards
the open door as fast as it can go. ‘You can’t catch
me!’ the pancake cries. (Ages 3-6)
$17.95 28 pages
Loek Koopmans
ISBN: 9781782500056 HARDCOVER Floris Books
$19.95 64 pages
This delicately illustrated, vintage collection of
classic nursery rhymes is the perfect gift for any
young child. First published in 1911, it includes
thirty all-time favorite rhymes such as Humpty
Dumpty and Mary Had a Little Lamb, each in
its full version with verses you may not have
discovered before. (Ages 2-8)
Loek Koopmans is the author and illustrator of the
children’s books Any Room For Me?, The Little Christmas Tree and Frog, Bee and Snail Look for Snow.
Reuben lives on a farm with his dog Barney. Each
day they feed the chickens, pigs, and rabbits,
weed the vegetable patch, and stop the goats
from eating all the flowers. They visit the cows,
ride the pony, and try not to get stung by the
bees. They play outside in the fields and orchard
until it’s time for supper. Children will make
friends with lovable Reuben and Barney as they
play and do simple jobs on the farm. (Ages 3-6)
The Tomtes of Hilltop Farm
The Tomtes of Hilltop Wood
Brenda Tyler
Brenda Tyler
$17.95 32 pages
$17.95 32 pages
Tomtes are small creatures who can be seen only
by children. They live in ancient woods and like
to help people and animals.
When Emily and Jamie hear that a new road will be
built through Hilltop Wood, they rush to warn their
friends, the Tomtes—who guard the oldest woods.
When the workers arrive, unexpected obstacles
appear in their way—the rocks they need to move
are much bigger than they remembered; their digging machines are flooded; a stream mysteriously
changes direction overnight. Maybe
they won’t be
able to build
this road after
all. (Ages 4-7)
At Hilltop Farm crops are failing, the animals are
badly behaved, and Bella the cow is ill. But Emily
and Jamie are determined to save the farm, so they
ask their friends the Tomtes for help. (Ages 4-7)
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Reuben and Barney’s
Day on the Farm
Kelpies Series
Can’t-Dance-Cameron
The Selkie Girl
The Dragon Stoorworm
A Scottish Capercaillie Story
Emily Dodd
Illustrated by Katie Pamment
Janis Mackay
Illustrated by Ruchi Mhasane
Theresa Breslin
Illustrated by Matthew Land
ISBN: 9781782501305 paperback floris books
$11.95 32 pages
$11.95 24 pages
Fergus lives with his father by the sea, but he is
lonely. He wants a friend more than anything.
One day he finds a beautiful fur blanket among
the rocks—a selkie girl has lost her seal skin and
can’t go home to the sea without it.
The Dragon Stoorworm was the biggest dragon
that ever lived. It was ginormous: almost as big as
Scotland! The king called for warriors to defeat
the dragon and save his daughter, the princess.
$11.95 24 pages
Capercaillies LOVE to dance—except Cameron!
He thinks he is the worst dancer in the Scottish
Cairngorms, but Hazel the squirrel has an idea
to help her friend. They travel through the forest,
jumping up and down, ducking under branches,
and kicking pinecones. When the dancing begins, Hazel tells Cameron to JUMP, DUCK, and
KICK. Maybe he can dance after all! (Ages 3-6)
Will Fergus give his new friend what she needs,
and risk being lonely again? (Ages 4-7)
Orange Juice
Peas
Wee
Granny’s
Magic Bag
Lari Don; Illustrated
by Lizzie Wells
Elizabeth McKay
Illustrated by
Maria Bogade
ISBN: 9780863158445
Paperback
Emily and Harry love going on trips with Granny because surprising things always happen
when she brings her tartan bag. When Granny
is asked if she’ll bake cakes for the school fair, an
incredible afternoon begins. (Ages 3-6)
ISBN: 9780863158728
paperback Floris Books
$11.95 32 pages
Jessie is learning to be polite, and when she says
please it sounds just like PEAS. When a babysitter asks what she’d like to drink, she finds herself
with a succession of funny drinks. (Ages 3-6)
Mac’s Christmas Star
Margaret Forrester
Illustrated by
Sandra Klaassen
ISBN: 9780863158421
Paperback Floris Books
$11.95 32 pages
Mac plots to climb the
Christmas tree and his friend Catriona peeks at
her gift. What could possibly go wrong?
A funny and festive story by the author of My
Cat Mac and The Cat Who Decided. (Ages 3-6)
Gentle Assipattle is no warrior, but maybe with
the help of the princess he can free Scotland
from the wrath of the dragon. (Ages 4-7)
The Tale of Tam Linn
Lari Don
Illustrated by Philip Longson
$11.95 32 pages
Janet is forbidden from visiting the woods
near her father’s
castle. Legend
says that long
ago a boy called
Tam Linn was stolen there by an evil fairy queen
and never returned. But Janet isn’t afraid.
Deep in the woods she meets a fairy knight—the
famous Tam Linn, forbidden to leave by the evil
queen’s spell. Can Janet rescue him? (Ages 4-7)
Browse the entire
Picture Kelpies series online at
www.discoverkelpies.co.uk
Order online at
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Goodbye, Mr. Muffin
Ulf Nilsson
Illustrated by Anna-Clara Tidholm
Goldilocks and the
Three Bears
The Ice Horse
Gerda Muller
“I’ve had it good, better than most: a very clever
and kind wife, a little blue house with its own
letter box, six furry little children…”
This charming version of the classic Grimm’s
story offers delightful extra details for children
and parents to enjoy. Besides the usual big,
medium, and little porridge bowls, chairs, and
beds,you will find big, medium, and little birds,
squirrels, mice, plates, mugs, umbrellas, brooms,
slippers and robes, and more. (Ages 3-6)
In his youth, Mr. Muffin was a strong guinea pig
who could carry a whole cucumber on his back.
Now old, grey, and tired, he looks back on his life.
This endearing picture book tells the touching
story of the death of a much-loved pet. Growing old, death rites, the question of the afterlife,
are all handled with warmth and gentle humor.
This is one of Sweden’s bestselling children’s
books and was voted book of the year by a
children’s poll in both the Swedish Book Jury
Prize (2002) and the French Chronos Prize for
Youth Literature (2008–2009). (Ages 3 and up)
Renne
One day a little Icelandic horse is chased away
from the herd by a black stallion. He is forced to
roam the grasslands on his own. As winter comes,
the little skewbald horse saves the day when the
herd is endangered by the snow and ice.
This book is full of interesting facts about
Icelandic horses—their history, appearance, and
how they live—which will appeal to all animalloving children. (Ages 5-8)
A Star to
Guide Me
Illustrated
Prayers for
Children
Illustrated by
Ruthild BuschSchumann
All the Dear Little Animals
Ulf Nilsson
Illustrated by
Eva Eriksson
ISBN: 9781782500049
HARDCOVER Floris Books $11.95 28 pages
ISBN: 9781903458945
Hardcover Hawthorn Press
$17.95 36 pages
“One summer day, we started a business called
Funerals Ltd. to help all the poor dead animals
in the world. Esther did the digging, I wrote the
poems, and Esther’s little brother Puttie cried.”
A thoroughly charming and deeply meaningful
story of three children responding to death.
(Ages 4-7)
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This is an ideal first prayer book for young
children. Based on well-known classics, as well
as popular traditional prayers, and verses from
Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Francis, the Carmina Gadelica, and more, this lovely book has
prayers to say throughout the day and at bedtime, accompanied by beautiful illustrations.
Ruthild Busch-Schumann (1900-1989) was a popular
children’s book illustrator in Germany.
Uan the Little Lamb
Sandra Klaassen
ISBN: 9780863157776 Paperback Floris Books,
Picture Kelpies $11.95 32 pages
On a remote Scottish island, two children find
an abandoned lamb. They name her Uan, “little
lamb” in Gaelic. The children love playing with
her, and they take her with them wherever they
go. But what will happen when she becomes a
full-grown sheep? (Ages 4-6)
The Wonderful
Adventures of Nils
Frog, Bee and Snail
Look For Snow
Selma Lagerlöf
Illustrated by Lars Klinting
Loek Koopmans
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrated by Harald Wiberg
$15.95 28 pages
$17.95 32 pages
Frog knows all about
water. Bee knows all about
the sky. And Snail knows
all about the earth. Waking
from their winter sleep,
they are astonished to hear
of a thing called snow.
They set off on a journey
of discovery which takes
them through the seasons. (Ages 3-6)
This classic children’s picture book introduces
the fabled Swedish gnome, the Tomten. He is
the one who looks after things while everyone
is sleeping. At night, when all is quiet—that’s
when the Tomten wakes up. (Ages 5-8)
$24.95 96 pages
Young Nils Holgersson lives on a farm in Sweden. Unfortunately, he is sluggish and lazy and
doesn’t want to learn anything at school. He is
also unkind to animals and people. One day
he is shrunk by a dwarf as punishment for being particularly unkind, as well as greedy. And
then—even more bad luck!—he suddenly gets
carried off by mistake when a flock of wild geese
fly over the farm on their way to the far North.
The Tomten
Am I Really Different?
Illustrated by Gerda Westerink
$16.95 24 pages
Nils has many adventures as he travels all
around Sweden. When finally he returns to his
home—and his full size—he has learned to love
and respect both humans and the life of nature.
This beloved Swedish classic folktale has been
translated into over 30 languages and is read all
over the world. (Ages 5-7)
FEATHERLIGHT
limited quantity
Gabriele
Gernhard
Eichenauer
ISBN: 9780892811113
Hardcover
inner traditions
international
$9.95 24 pages
Featherlight is a boy who was so small and delicate that his parents wondered if he would ever
grow. His best friend is Golden Bird. Because of
his devotion to Golden Bird, Featherlight finds
himself on an unexpected adventure where he
learns that he has a great deal of courage and that
being small has its own advantages. (Ages 4-7)
When you look closely, you see that no two
ladybirds’ patterns are the same. Just like people,
everyone is different, unique, and special. This
is a book that celebrates diversity. (Ages 4-6)
Any Room
for Me?
Loek Koopmans
ISBN: 9780863151606
Hardcover
Floris Books
$16.95 28 pages
In this traditional
Ukrainian folk tale, a
woodcutter drops his mitten in the forest and it
becomes a warm house for a little mouse. Then,
one by one, a frog, a hare, a fox, a wild boar, and
a huge bear want to move in too! (Ages 3-6)
The Tomten and the Fox
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrated by Harald Wiberg
$17.95 32 pages
In this sequel to The Tomten, the sly fox sneaks
to the farm in the moonlight, hoping to steal a
chicken or two. But he’s forgotten that the old
Tomten guards the farm at night. (Ages 5-8)
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The Knottles
The Apple Cake
Dragon Feathers
Nancy Mellon
Illustrated by Ruth Lieberherr
Nienke van Hichtum
Illustrated by Olga Dugina
and Andrei Dugin
Retold by Arnica Esterl
ISBN: 9781621480037 Paperback SteinerBooks
$11.95 32 pageS
A family builds a new home at the edge of
a pine forest, and the children go to sleep in
their new bedroom for the first time. As the full
moon shines on the beautiful pinewood floors,
walls, and ceiling, they have the most surprising
dream. Out of a large pinewood knot climb
seven little knottles, who are the guardians of
the pine trees. The knottles sing and dance and
feast with the children in their dreams.
Remember the pine trees, how they grow,
In the summer, in the snow,
Remember the pine trees, root in stone,
Twig and limb, seed and cone,
And a golden heart in every tree,
Giving people wood for free.
$16.95 24 pages
In this delightful story an old granny wants to
bake an apple cake, so she sets off to market to
buy some apples, taking a basket of plums to
trade along the way.
This is a classic story of sharing, trading, and
caring. Children will love guessing what granny
will acquire next, and how. Granny’s delicious
apple cake recipe is included. (Ages 5-8)
Nienke van Hichtum was the pseudonym of wellknown Frisian Dutch children’s author Sjoukje Maria
Diderika de Boer (1860-1939).
$17.95 24 pages
The poor woodcutter’s son is sent on a mission
to the dark forest to pluck three feathers from
the dragon’s back. Only then can he marry
Beth, the rich innkeeper’s beautiful daughter.
Along the way, he helps an old man with a sick
daughter, a withered apple tree, and a weary
fisherman. (Ages 5-8)
Olga Dugina also illustrated One Thousand and One
Nights. (see p. 35)
When the children wake up in the morning, they
are inspired to plant pine tree seedlings with
their parents, and they promise to take good
care of all their trees for evermore. (Ages 5-8)
Nancy Mellon has guided storytelling and writing
groups for many years. A former Waldorf teacher,
she has given storytelling and art therapeutic courses
at many locations in the US and UK. Her books
include Storytelling With Children and The Art of
Imagination.
Ruth Lieberherr has exhibited her paintings at
universities, museums, and galleries in the United
States, France, and her native Switzerland. Her works
are found in many private collections. She has also
illustrated Winter, Awake! (see p. 24)
A portion of the proceeds from this book supports
the international charity, www.A Million Trees.
Florina and the Wild Bird
Selina Chönz; Illustrated by Alois Carigiet
$17.95 32 pages
Florina lives in a valley in the Swiss Alps with her
mother, father, and brother Ursli. One day, while
walking in the mountains, she finds a tiny bird that
has lost its mother, and she takes the bird home to care
for it. Florina and the wild
bird soon become best friends.When the bird grows up, its wings
get bigger and it wants to fly. Florina must decide whether to keep
the bird with her or release it back into the mountains. (Ages 4-6)
Selina Chönz (1910–2000) was a poet from Switzerland.
Alois Carigiet (1902–1985) was one of Switzerland’s most popular painters.
He won numerous awards.
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Peter and Anneli’s
Journey to the Moon
Gerdt von Bassewitz
Illustrated by Hans Baluschek
Translated by Marianne H. Luedeking
in color with black and white drawings
Long ago, a thief,
stealing wood in
the forest, had accidentally cut off
Mr. Zoomzeman’s
great-great grandfather’s leg and
was banished to
the Moon. Unfortunately, he took
the leg with him
and, since then,
the family of the Zoomzemans have all had
only five legs. Only two good children can get
the leg back, so Mr. Zoomzeman, in search of
goodness, finds Peter and Anneli. The three then
set off together on an astonishing journey, filled
with marvelous encounters, fantastic beings,
and exciting events. (Ages 6-9)
Gerdt Bernhard von Bassewitz (1874-1923) was a
lieutenant in the Prussian militia, a playwright, and
an actor. This book has been a bestseller in Germany
since its original publication in 1915.
Hans Baluschek (1870-1935), a painter and graphic
artist, was a member of the Berlin Secession Movement with Max Liebermann and Käthe Kollwitz.
Marianne H. Luedeking lives in Florida. This was
one of her favorite childhood books.
The Wise Enchanter
Jumping Mouse
A Journey through the Alphabet
Shelley Davidow
Illustrated by Krystyna Emilia Kurzyca
Brian Patten
Illustrated by Mary Moore
Words are disappearing from
the world. Something is lurking in
the deepest waters, devouring
the words that
are no longer
used. No one has
noticed, but the
world is slowly
growing darker.
This Native American folk tale
and teaching story tells how a
mouse has the courage to leave
the security of his nest and set
out on a dangerous journey of
self-discovery. (Ages 6 and up)
Brian Patten is well known for his
best-selling poetry collections for children.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Mary Moore, daughter of sculptor Henry Moore, is
an artist and fashion designer.
In Blue Mountains
For years no children have come
to the Enchanted
Islands in search
of Wisdom, and
t h e Wi s e E n chanter is growing old. Four
children from
the corners of the
earth have been
sent on a quest to
rediscover each
letter, unlock the
treasure of language, and thereby grow wise.
An Artist’s Return to America’s
First Wilderness
Thomas Locker
Time is running out; if the children do not
reach the castle of the Wise Enchanter in time,
Wisdom and light may vanish from the world
altogether.
Thomas Locker (1937-2012) was an award-winning
author and artist.
ISBN:9780880104715 Hardcover
This book tells the story of an artist who sets out
to explore wilderness. As he does so, he embarks
on an adventure of learning: about light and
shadow, the way color changes through the
day, and how looking at nature leads to a new
understanding of himself and the world.
At the end of the book is a section that answers questions both profound and practical:
How were the paintings in this book created?
How were the mountains formed? How can a
hemlock tree live on top of a rock? (Ages 5-7)
This is a wonderfully adventurous learn-thealphabet story. (Ages 6-8)
Shelley Davidow is originally from South Africa. She
was nominated for the first Macmillan Writer’s Prize
for Africa in 2002. Shelley lives in Australia.
Krystyna (Krysha) Emilia Kurzyca was born, raised,
and art-educated in post-World War II communist
Poland. She has lived in the United States since 1981.
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Storybooks
Isabel Wyatt
The Seven-Year-Old
Wonder Book
Magical Wonder Tales
Legends of King Arthur
King Beetle-Tamer and Other Stories
new Edition
new Edition; previously published as King
Beetle-Tamer
$16.95 144 pages
$16.95 160 pages
Sylvia lives in a cottage at the edge of the
woods. In the evening, Sylvia’s mother tells her
wonderful stories, and during the night, the
rhyme-elves paint pictures and write poems in
her Wonder-Book.
Meet Sister-in-the-Bushes, the Black Imp, the
Lordly Cock, Hugin and the Turnip, and many
others who have delighted children for almost
fifty years, taking them through the highlights
and festivals of the year. (Ages 6-8)
The Eight-Year-Old
Legend Book
$16.95 120 pages
Based upon tales told by the Buddha to his
monks 2,500 years ago, this collection of stories
tells of great adventures and heroes, of danger
and courage, and most importantly of how
wisdom and thoughtfulness always triumph
over selfishness and greed. (Ages 7-10)
The Kingdom of
Beautiful Colours
And Other Stories
new Edition; previously published as The
Book of Fairy Princes
ISBN:9781782500599 paperback Floris Books
$16.95 160 pages
The King must go on a long journey, so he asks
his four sons to care for the kingdom of beautiful colors. But the youngest prince has his own
ideas about how that should be done.…
“The Kingdom of Beautiful Colours” is one of
seven wonderful tales in this collection. The
stories are full of ivory towers, great forests,
golden lands and the star of the sea, which will
inspire and enchant any child. (Ages 9-12)
Isabel Wyatt (1901-1992) was born in England.
She spent many years teaching young children
and was then co-director of studies at Hawkwood
College in Gloucestershire. She retired in 1965.
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$16.95 144 pages
If Orfeo is to be king, his mother decides, he
must sleep outside. And so Orfeo sleeps in the
meadow and becomes friends with the animals,
birds, insects, and beetles. Then one day, he
agrees to help a jackdaw return a ruby ring to
a princess.…
“King Beetle-Tamer” is one of fifteen magical
wonder tales in this collection. The tales are
full of unicorns, fairies, palaces, roses, and gold,
which will transport children to a world of fantastic places and heroic deeds. (Ages 7 and up)
Homer’s
Odyssey
A Retelling
ISBN: 9780863156830
Paperback Floris
Homer’s Odyssey is one
of the greatest stories in
literature, the epic tale of
the return of Odysseus to his home following
the Trojan war.
After nine years of siege and fighting, the Greeks
are finally returning home. But one of the Greek
heroes, Odysseus, offends the Sea-God, who
sends storms and waves to keep him from arriving home for ten years. We follow Odysseus’s
trials and adventures as he faces one danger
after another on his long journey. (Ages 7-10)
Courageous knights fight strange, unearthly
foes to prove themselves worthy of a place at
King Arthur’s table. These are the ancient tales
that have been told since the fifth century.
Previously published by Lanthorn Press as Tales
the Harper Sang: Medieval Stories. (Ages 9-12)
Legends of the Norse Kings
The Saga of King Ragnar Goatskin
and The Dream of King Alfdan
$16.95 112 pages
The tales of the medieval Norse kings were
originally sung or told as sagas. The two sagas in
this book date from the twelfth to the fifteenth
centuries: “Thorkill of Iceland,” an old Danish
hero tale of Thorkill’s mission to the land of the
Giants, and “The Dream of King Alfan,” an old
Norse hero tale in which Prince Guthorm must
go through many trials to fulfill his destiny.
These stories are beautifully and dramatically
retold from the old sources. (Ages 7-10)
Norse Hero Tales
“The King and the Green Angelica”
and Other Stories
$17.95 128 pages
These stories are from the collection of tales
compiled by Saxo Grammaticus (c.1150–1220),
the Danish historian, and other early Scandinavian writers. They are useful for teaching Norse
Mythology in Waldorf class 4. (Ages 9-10)
Hay for My Ox and Other Stories
A First Reading Book for Waldorf Schools
new edition
ISBN: 9780863159138 Paperback Floris Books $14.95 104 pages
Color illustrations
The stories and poems in this classic early reading book range from
the fairytale elements of Waldorf class 1 (ages 6-7) to the legends
and animal fables introduced in Waldorf class 2 (ages 7-8). Stories
include The Prince Who Kept Pigs, The Tree of Three Cries, The
Giant and the Child, and The Monkey and the Pea.
Stories and Folk Tales
The Coming of the Unicorn
The King of Ireland’s Son
Scottish Folk Tales for Children
Duncan Williamson
Edited by Linda Williamson
An Irish Folk Tale
Padraic Colum
$15.95 160 pages
Mesmerizing…one of the world’s best-known
storytellers. —The Times
Duncan Williamson came from a family of
Traveling People. As a child Duncan learned
the ways of the world through stories they told
around a campfire. For more than sixty years,
he traveled around Scotland—on foot, then in a
horse and cart, and later in an old van—collecting tales that come not only from the Traveling
People but also from the crofters, farmers, and
shepherds he met along the way. (Ages 8-12)
Duncan Williamson (1928-2007) has been celebrated
as the bearer of Scotland’s greatest national treasure:
one of the richest troves of story and song in Europe.
Linda Williamson is an American folklorist, storyteller and editor.
The Flight of the
Golden Bird
Scottish Folk Tales for Children
Duncan Williamson
Edited by Linda Williamson
ISBN: 9781782500179 paperback Floris Books
$16.95 144 pages
A new collection of children’s folk tales by one
of Scotland’s master storytellers. Includes stories
about silver horses and golden birds, cunning
lions and trilling nightingales, brave princesses
and magic scarecrows, the four seasons and
Father Time. At the heart of each story is a lesson about life and what it means to be a good
person. (Ages 8-12)
Stories of the Saints
Retold by Siegwart Knijpenga
$22.95 224 pages b&w illustrations
This collection of stories from many times and
lands is an invaluable treasury of the tales and
legends of over forty saints—stories of devotion, self-sacrifice and faith. (Ages 7-11)
$16.95 288 pages
In this classical children’s story, the King of
Ireland’s son sets out to find the Enchanter of
the Back-Lands where he meets the Enchanter’s
daughter Fedelma. He loses her, and then has
many adventures to find her again. (Ages 7-10)
Padraic Colum (1881–1972) typifies the best of the
early twentieth-century renaissance of Irish literary.
His books have delighted generations.
Myths of the World
Padraic Colum
Illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff
328 pages $25.00 21 b&w illustrations
A comprehensive collection of tales that have
carried deeply human meaning through the centuries. You will find all the legendary heroes and
tragic characters of ancient times—Iris, Osiris,
Gilgamesh, Hercules, Pandora, and many more.
Tales from
African Dreamtime
Edited by Magdalene Sacranie
Illustrated by Sarah Bramley
Foreword by Alexander McCall Smith
$30.00 96 pages
From the wild
plains of Sudan to
a remote village
in Cameroon, this
collection of more
than forty stories
gathers folk tales
from many African
traditions. They are
narrated in a lively,
conversational style
and accompanied by vibrant color illustrations.
Discover how human beings lost their tail;
puzzle over riddles; and meet a variety of animals, from a lazy rabbit to a wicked leopard.
These magical tales are ideal read-aloud bedtime stories. (Ages 7-10)
The Shifty Lad
and the Tales
He Told
Master storyteller Padraic Colum shows the
close relationship among past cultures by
including stories from ancient Egypt, Babylon,
Greece, Rome, Ireland, Iceland, China, Japan,
New Zealand, Mexico, and Peru. (Ages 7-10)
Celtic Folk Stories
Retold by
P. L. Snow
Celtic
Wonder Tales
ISBN: 9780863157646
Paperback
Floris Books $19.95
176 pages
And Other Stories
Ella Young
ISBN: 9780863153501
Paperback
Floris Books
$30.00 224 pages
b&w illustrations
This combined collection of wonderful tales from Ella Young’s classic
retelling of Celtic stories has been selected from
her Celtic Wonder Tales, The Wonder Smith and
His Son, The Tangle-Coated Horse, and The
Unicorn with Silver Shoes. (Ages 7-12)
Ella Young (1867-1956) was born in the little village
of Feenagh, County Antrim in Ireland.
In these delightful and amusing tales of roguery
and cunning, we learn how the Shifty Lad became a thief, outwitted the Dark Stranger, and
saved his life through the gift of telling stories.
These tales come from the old Celtic cultures of
Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. But as part of the
great tradition of folktales, they are stories about
the nature of humankind, stories that touch our
feelings and make us laugh. (Ages 8-11)
P. L. Snow is a teacher and professional storyteller
from Edinburgh.
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Folk Tales
The Princess
and the Pea
Illustrated by
Maja Dusíková
Only a true princess could feel a
pea beneath a pile of 20 mattresses
and 20 quilts. (Ages 3-6)
Thumbelina
Illustrated by Hsin-Shih Lai
ISBN: 9780880105927
Hardcover Bell Pond Books
Enchantmints Studio edition
$19.95 56 pages
Thumbelina is so tiny, she can ride
on the wings of a butterfly. Her
world is one of flower petals, wild
berries, and ladybugs. One day, she
is kidnapped by a frog, and then she
seems doomed to marry a mole.
But in the end she is rescued and
lives happily ever after. (Ages 6-9)
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Cinderella
Hansel and Gretel
The Brothers Grimm
Illustrated by
Ulrike Haseloff
The Brothers Grimm
Illustrated by
Anastasiya Archipova
Color illustrations
Snow White
and Rose Red
The Brothers Grimm
Illustrated by
A beautifully imagined adaptation
of this classic fairy tale, in soft,
sparkling illustrations. (Ages 4-7)
This is the classic story of two
children sent into the woods who
discover a house made from gingerbread. (Ages 5-8)
The Bremen Town
Musicians
Snow White
and Rose Red
Little Red
Riding Hood
The Brothers Grimm
Illustrated by Hsin-Shih Lai
The Brothers Grimm
Illustrated by
Denise Marshall
The Brothers Grimm
Illustrated by Patricia
DeLisa; Commentary
by Andrew Flaxman
ISBN: 9780880105835
HARDCOVER BELL POND BOOKS
$17.95 32 pages
Here is the well loved classic
Grimm’s tale of a run-away donkey, a down-and-out dog, a castoff cat, and an about-to-be-cooked
rooster who set off together to
Bremen to become the town musicians. (Ages 4-7)
ISBN: 9780880105910
Hardcover Bell Pond Books
$17.95 28 pages
One winter morning, two sisters,
Snow White and Rose Red, hear
a knock at their cottage door.
Snow-covered and half frozen, a
bear begs for a warm place to rest.
(Ages 6-9)
When two sisters meet a big black
bear and an angry dwarf, their lives
are changed forever. (Ages 5-8)
Little Red Riding Hood is perhaps the best known story of the
Grimms brothers’ collection. Included is an insightful commentary
which helps us understand the
deeper meaning behind this story
and fairy tales in general. (Ages 5-8)
Folk Tales
An Illustrated
Treasury of Grimm’s
Fairy Tales
An Illustrated
Treasury of Scottish
Folk and Fairy Tales
Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty,
Hansel and Gretel, and
Many More Classic Stories
The Brothers Grimm
Illustrated by
Daniela Drescher
Theresa Breslin
Illustrated by Kate Leiper
The Brothers Grimm
Illustrated by
Award-winning children’s author
Theresa Breslin has collected eleven
of the best-loved tales from all over
Scotland. Retelling each in its own
individual style, with exquisite
illustrations brimming with otherworldly beauty.
Little Red Riding Hood, The Frog
Prince, Sleeping Beauty, Snow
White, Cinderella, Mother Holle,
Rumpelstiltskin, and many more
are included here in this beautifully
illustrated collection. (Ages 7-10)
Included are thirty much-loved stories from the Brothers Grimm. Each
tale is sumptuously brought
to life by Daniela Drescher,
one of Germany’s bestloved childrens book illustrators.
(see pp.
16-17)
One Thousand
and One Nights
Illustrated by
Olga Dugina
Text by C. J. Moore
ISBN: 9780863156007
Hardcover
Floris Books $30.00
88 pages
This exquisitely illustrated
collection includes the wellknown stories Sheherazade, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,
The Ox and the Ass, and The Horse of Ebony, as well as
how the story of Sheherazade ended. (Ages 8-11)
Favourite
Grimm’s Tales
sWEDISH FOLK Tales
Illustrated by John Bauer
Translated from Swedish
by Holger Lundburgh
This collection includes 29 classic
Swedish folk tales from Elsa Beskow,
Anna Wahlenberg, Alfred Smedberg,
Helena Nyblom, Harald Ostenson,
and others, all brought to life by John
Bauer’s original, evocative illustrations. (Ages 7-10)
Over the Hills
and Far Away
Stories of Dwarfs, Fairies, Gnomes
and Elves From Around Europe
Edited by Els Boekelaar and
Ineke Verschuren
Illustrated
by Daniela
Drescher
isbn:
9780863157301
hardcover floris books $30 176 pages
Here is our best collection of more than sixty
traditional stories about gnomes, dwarfs,
leprechauns, and other wee folk from Ireland,
Russia, Germany, Scotland, Spain, France,
Switzerland, England, Flanders, and Scandinavia. Illustrated in full color throughout by
Daniela Drescher.
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Verses and Poems
A Journey
through Time in
Verse and Rhyme
Edited by Heather Thomas
Autumn
Yellow the braken,
Golden the sheaves.
Rosy the apples,
Crimson the leaves.
Mist on the hillside,
Clouds grey and white.
Autumn good morning!
Summer, good night!
The Tutor
A tutor who taught on the flute
Tried to teach two young tooters
to toot.
Said the two to the tutor:
“Is it harder to toot
or to tutor two tooters to toot?”
This is a splendid collection of
poetry for use by teachers at every
stage of school life. The poems are
arranged according to the development of the child from six to
fourteen and provide support for
the subject matter of lessons—
from botany and physics to history
and astronomy, and range from
ancient Egypt to modern times.
Works by Shakespeare, Blake,
Wordsworth, and Browning are
juxtaposed with the refreshingly
unfamiliar. Alliterative verse,
riddles, tongue-twisters, and action and seasonal verses provide a
stimulus for practical activities in
the classroom. Also included are
meditative verses to help teachers
deepen their understanding of the
children in their care.
A resource book to treasure, it will
awaken a love of poetry in both
young and old.
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In the Light
of a Child
The Winding Road
A Journey through the 52
Weeks of the Year in Both
Hemispheres for Children
Michael Burton
Children live deeply in the experience of the seasons. Their unity
with nature, initially unconscious,
gradually fades as they become
more self-aware. These verses help
children bridge the gap from their
unconscious connection with
nature to a living feeling for the
seasons that will stay with them
throughout life. Inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul,
these verses follow the course of
the year. (Ages 4-9)
Spring
Summer
Family Treasury
of Poems and Verses
Collected by
Matthew Barton
Foreword by Jamila Gavin
Hawthorn Press, Festivals
Series $26.00 224 pages
Poems and verses bring rhythm,
security, and intimacy to family
life and offer the right words for
comfort, meditation, and important occasions. Matthew Barton
has collected a wealth of more
than two hundred poems, verses,
blessings, and meditations for celebrating all of life’s early stages and
events, from birth to adolescence.
This rich anthology comes from
folk sources, poets, and many different religious traditions.
Autumn
Winter
Poems for
Younger Children
David Donaldson
Wynstones Press $9.95 46 pages
The poems in this collection were
written originally as birthday
verses by a Waldorf class teacher
for children between the ages of
seven and eleven. The children,
each having been given a verse,
would learn it by heart and recite
it to the class on their birthdays.
After more than sixteen years of
teaching children at the Hereford
Steiner Academy in England, the
author chose this collection of
verses, which teachers will find
useful in recitation, to accompany
movement, or as inspiration for
their own verses.
Spindrift
Gateways
Poems, Songs and Stories for Young Children
paperbacks Wynstones Press
Spring ISBN: 978094206469 $14.95 87 pages
Summer ISBN: 978094206476 $14.95 111 pages
Autumn ISBN: 9780946206483 $14.95 87 pages
Winter ISBN: 9780946206490 $14.95 95 pages
Spindrift ISBN: 9780946206506 $17.95 222 pages
Gateways ISBN: 9780946206513 $14.95 95 pages
“This is a rich resource for anyone working with
young children.” —Joan Almon, Waldorf Early
Childhood Association of North America
Written specifically for the Waldorf kindergarten
movement, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter
contain a wide variety of poems, songs, and stories
for each season, with many contributions for use at
festivals. The Spindrift volume comprises general and
miscellaneous material for use the whole year round,
including over forty stories from different cultures
around the world. Gateways has sections on morning,
evening, birthdays, and fairytales. Most songs are in
the scale of D-pentatonic, particularly suitable for
pentatonic lyres, but quite capable of being played
on any traditional 7- or 12-note instrument. Each
volume includes introduction to music in the Mood
of the Fifth, written by Jennifer Aulie.
Young Adult
Tistou
Nobody’s Child
Six Lives of Fankle the Cat
The Boy with Green Thumbs
Maurice Druon
The Adventures of Remy
Hector Malot
Translated by Beatrys Lockie
new Edition
When eight-year-old Tistou is sent home from
school, his parents decide he will learn from
real life instead, and where better to start than
gardening? Tistou discovers a remarkable gift—
that he has green thumbs! With the power of
flowers, he can change everything—prisons,
slums, hospitals … even war. A witty, charming,
and wise French children’s classic. (Ages 7–11)
Maurice Druon (1918-2009) was awarded the Prix
Goncourt at age thirty. He co-wrote the Chant des
Partisans, the anthem of the French Resistance.
Remy is found abandoned as a baby in Paris.
When he is eight years old, Remy is sold to a
traveling singer, who teaches him to survive by
playing the harp in market squares. After many
adventures and trials, working as a miner and
gardener—even spending time in prison—
Remy discovers who he really is, and can look
forward to a happy and secure future.
Hector Malot (1830-1907) was a French writer who
wrote more than 70 books.
Books by Shirley Latessa
George Mackay Brown
$9.95 160 pages
Fankle, a clever feline, has lived six lives so far—
with the king of pirates, in ancient Egypt, and
even with the Empress of China. (Ages 8-12)
George Mackay Brown (1921-1996) was a poet,
novelist, and dramatist.
Beecoming Sophie
Susan Kurz; Adapted by Mark Ellis
Illustrated by Melissa Martin Ellis
Bee Conscious Publishing $22.95 152 pages
This comics-style novel includes fascinating
facts about honeybees and suggestions for how
to help stop the disappearance of the bees and
protect our food freedom. (Ages 12 and up)
The Beejum Book
Alice O. Howell
bell pond books $20.00
“An unforgettable saga on a cosmic scale,
peopled with clear and colorful characters,
overcoming obstacles and evil at every turn,
as they travel forth to a final climactic battle.”
—Rebecca Schacht, M.A., teacher and author
Auragole of Mattelmead
Milon and the Lion
Jakob Streit
ISBN: 9780863158414
$16.95 208 pages
b&w illustrations
Auragole and the Last Battle
The Early Years
Book Four of Aurogole’s Journey
Lindisfarne Books $29.95 532 pages
the Auragole Quartet
Auragole of the Mountains
Meekelorr
Book Two of Aurogole’s Journey
Book Three of Aurogole’s Journey
Prequel to the
Auragole Quartet
Book One of Aurogole’s Journey
Auragole of the Way
This is the enchanting tale of Teak, a child living
between the two World Wars. Teak’s mother tells
her not to worry about being left alone, because
every night during sleep, they can meet in the
magical realm of Beejumstan. (Ages 8-11)
Shirley Latessa has also written two novels, Eighteen Days till Home and Dancing in the Fire, and
a book of poetry, Summing Up. She has coedited
the books The Changing Countenance of Cosmology and Isis Sophia. She lives in New York City.
When a young slave named
Milon meets a community of
Christians in Rome, he gains
his freedom and finds his life’s
purpose. This is a classic story of the friendship
between a young slave and a lion. (Ages 11-12)
Jakob Streit (1910-2009) was born in Switzerland.
He worked as a teacher in child and adult education.
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Young Adult
Kelpies Series
The Sign of the
Black Dagger
A Stranger
Came Ashore
Joan Lingard
Mollie Hunter
First Aid for
Fairies and Other
Fabled Beasts
new edition
One day, Will and Lucy’s dad just
vanishes. They have no idea why
he’s disappeared until a creepy
stranger reveals their dad was keeping a BIG secret. Then there’s the
second clue: an old diary they find
hidden in the walls of their Royal
Mile house, with a sinister black
dagger on it.
When Finn Learson literally stumbles out of a stormy sea into a
small village on the Shetland Isles,
he steals the villagers’ hearts. He’s
handsome and charming, he helps
with the fishing and the harvest,
and he’s particularly drawn to Robbie’s older sister Elspeth, with her
beautiful long golden hair.
Will and Lucy must solve a mystery
that’s over two hundred years old
if they want to find their dad and
bring him home. But can they find
the answers in time to rescue him?
(Ages 8-12)
Yet there’s something about Finn
that makes Robbie and his dog Tam
feel uneasy. Haunted by local tales
of the Selkie folk, Robbie suspects
there’s more to Finn than meets
the eye. But who would believe
Robbie’s wild suspicions? As the
story reaches its explosive finale at
the fire festival of Up Helly Aa, can
Robbie reveal the truth in time to
save his sister? (Ages 8-12)
The Reluctant
Time Traveller
Janis Mackay
If Saul and Agnes don’t do something their den will be destroyed.
But the deeds that could save it were
lost in 1914. Is travelling back in
time to a world on the verge of war
really a good idea? When Agnes disappears Saul has no choice. He can’t
let her go to the past on her own.
100 years before their own time,
Saul and Agnes meet a brother
and sister, servants at a big house
where a sinister visitor is expected.
Together the new friends try to
uncover the mystery but Saul and
Agnes know time is running out.
Soon a war will begin: can they risk
altering the past, the present, and
their future?
This sequel to The Accidental Time
Traveller—winner of the Scottish
Children’s Book Award 2013—will
bring early-twentieth-century
Scotland to life. (Ages 8-12)
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Really Weird
Removals.com
Daniela Sacerdoti
Floris Book $9.95 256 pages
Mischievous fairies? Stranded
mermaids? Smelly troll? Whatever
your supernatural dilemma, call the
Really Weird Removals company!
Luca and Valentina’s uncle Alistair
is a paranormal investigator. When
he realizes that the children can
see the supernatural creatures that
share our world, he invites them
to join his team. With the help of
Camilla, a friendly ghost, they save
a real-life stranded Nessie, help a
selkie come ashore, and befriend
werewolves. But this exciting new
world is packed with danger. When
confronted by malicious kelpies and
hungry vampires, can their uncle
keep the children safe? (Ages 8-12)
Lari Don
When Yann the injured centaur clip
clops into Helen’s life she decides
to help him even though she’s not
exactly a veterinarian.
But that’s just the beginning. Helen’s first aid kit comes in very handy
when she meets Yann’s friends—a
gang of fabled beasts with a habit of
getting into trouble. Together they
must solve riddles, fight fauns, and
defeat the dangerous Master of the
Maze before midwinter and the end
of the world.
Winner of a Scottish Children’s
Book Award, this is the first book
in the bestselling Fabled Beast
Chronicles, an exciting four-book
adventure series. (Ages 8-12)
Beneath
Gill Arbuthnott
Jess has heard the rumors, old folk
tales of creatures that live beneath
the water: dangerous shapeshifters
with a taste for human children.
She’s dismissed them as crazy stories—until her best friend is stolen.
Trying to rescue her friend, she
meets one of them—a kelpie—but
he is nothing like she imagined.
Caught between two worlds, Jess
must choose between what she’s
always known—and what lies beneath. (Ages 11-14)
Mind Blind
Lari Don
14-year-old Ciaran Bain is a highly
trained fighter and gifted criminal
with a special talent: he knows what
his victim is thinking. He works in
a mafia-style family of gangsters,
thieves, and thugs who share his
mind-reading talent. But Ciaran’s
skill comes with a crippling side
effect, one that makes him disposable—even to his own family.
He meets Lucy, whose older sister
has been killed, and they form an
unlikely team. But on their perilous
search across London and up to Edinburgh, on the run from Ciaran’s
dangerous family, can they ever
trust each other? And where can
they hide if they aren’t even safe
in their own minds? (Ages 11-14)
Werewolf Parallel
Roy Gill
Floris Books $9.95 288 Pages
Cameron’s life of shifting between
the Human and Demon worlds is
under threat and the magic that
once protected him and his friends
is failing.
Two sinister figures want to destroy
the Parallel—the realm between
worlds populated by daemons,
dark creatures, old gods, and werewolves—and everyone in it.
To save the Parallel, Cameron must
make the ultimate sacrifice, but
what is he prepared to lose?
This is an action-packed sequel
to Roy Gill’s supernatural fantasy
Daemon Parallel. (Ages 11-14)
Browse the entire young adult Kelpies series
online at www.discoverkelpies.co.uk
Order online at www.steinerbooks.org
Gift Books
Carl Larsson’s
Home, Family and Farm
Parzival
The Quest for the Holy Grail
Illustrated by David Newbatt
Paintings from the Swedish
Arts and Crafts Movement
Illustrated by Carl Larsson
Wynstones press $60.00 224 pages
$40.00 96 pages 58 color plates
Carl Larsson is one of Sweden’s best-loved
artists. The stunning watercolor paintings in
this book are a collection that depicts Larsson’s family—his wife Karin and their eight
children—his home in the village of Sundborn,
and his farm, Spadarvet. The accompanying text
provides fascinating insights into the Larsson
family and Swedish farm life of the time, and
Larsson’s painting techniques.
Previously published as three separate volumes:
A Home; A Family; and A Farm.
Parzival is one of the
great classic stories of the
last millennium. It is also
a deep and intense piece
of literature in which is
portrayed an individual’s
archetypal biography.
Newbatt’s stunning fullpage color illustrations
bring a vivid and direct
interpretation of the Quest for the Holy Grail.
The text gives a clear, concise introduction to the
characters and events portrayed in this epic tale.
David Newbatt is an artist, mural painter, and teacher
who lives and works at a Camphill commmunity for
young adults with special needs in Scotland.
How to Move
like a Gardener
Planting and Preparing Medicines
from Plants
Deb Soule
Under the Willow Press $33.00 256 pages
over 200 color Illustrations
“Deb Soule is overflowing with the healing
wisdom of the plant world distilled through
many years of study, experience, and observation.
—Robert Karp, Director of the Biodynamic
Farming and Gardening Assocoation
This book’s informative pages and beautiful
photographs embody the author’s love and respect for the spirit of the medicinal plants, with
which she has worked for almost forty years.
Contents include: A Gardener’s Notebook;
Biodynamics: Agriculture—Service of the Earth
and Humanity; Living in Harmony with the
Seasons; Energetic and Elemental Associations
of Plant Parts; and Growing, Harvesting, and
Using Medicinal Herbs.
The Fairy Tale of the Green
Snake and the Beautiful Lily
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner
Three Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Illustrated by Sophia Montefiore
Paintings by Gerard Wagner
Afterword by Peter Stebbing
isbn: 9780946206629 Hardcover
30 color illustrations
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of the
great classics of English Literature, considered
by many to be the greatest ballad ever written
in English. Composed at the end of the 18th
century, its unique qualities have continued
to capture the imagination of readers and artists throughout the ages. The illustrations by
Sophia Montefiore were inspired by Coleridge’s
perspectives into the world of the soul and the
elemental powers of nature.
The paintings in this book represent a unique
approach to children’s book illustration.
Through Wagner’s life-long investigation into
how form can arise from objective color experience, the images are attuned in a deep way to
the mood of each fairy tale and to children’s
essential moral nature and creative fantasy.
Gerard Wagner (1906–1999) was born in Germany
and studied at the Royal College of Art in London.
He and his wife, Elisabeth Wagner-Koch, established
The Painting School at the Goetheanum.
Wynstones press $25.00 48 pages
At Michaelmas in 1795,
a series of stories by
Johann von Goethe appeared, of which the
concluding one was a
fairy tale: The Green
Snake and the Beautiful
Lily. It tells of magical
transformation—one
that, when the time is at
hand, can be experienced by anyone.
Newbatt brings together the original English
translation by Thomas Carlyle with illustrations to help reveal the seven-fold process that
unfolds within Goethe’s tale of a path of inner
development and personal transformation.
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Christmas Books
Jonathan’s Journey
Little Fairy’s Christmas
The Christmas Angels
Elizabeth Lombardi
Daniela Drescher
Else Wenz-Viëtor
Floris books $17.95 32 pages
It is Christmas Eve. Jonathan is sick in bed,
when a little dwarf appears and invites him to
the Inside Land, where he receives a message
from Father Christmas and meets Squirrel,
Rabbit, Bird, and Mouse, who cannot find any
food in the snowy woods.
On Christmas Eve,
a fairy gets lost in a
snowstorm and is
blown far from home.
She finds an elf boy
who has also been lost
in the storm. They are
both rescued by Father Christmas, who
helps them find the way to the elf boy’s home.
The fairy is invited to stay with the elf family,
and they have a wonderful Christmas. (Ages 3-6)
It is Christmas Eve, and the Christmas angels
are ready to fly down to help those who are
lost, lonely, and weary. Children will love the
cutout angel heads that reveal the features of
each angel. (Ages 3-6)
When Jonathan wakes up on Christmas he is all
better, and finds a new sled at the foot of his bed.
Then he remembers the hungry animals in the
snow and fills his sled with nuts, seeds, carrots,
and all sorts of good things for them to eat.
This enchanting holiday story is a special bedtime tale to read to young children during the
Christmas season.
Elizabeth L. Lombardi is an art teacher with many
years of experience. She has won awards in numerous
state and national watercolor shows.
On Christmas Eve
Else Wenz-Viëtor
Father Christmas is
starting his rounds
on Christmas Eve,
but his little helper
has forgotten to bring
the gifts and sweets!
Can she collect them
all in time?
The Little Christmas Tree
Loek Koopmans
$16.95 32 pages
One winter night something special happens to
a little pine tree, when a star tumbles down from
heaven and lands on its top. A mother and her
children and all the forest animals gather round
in wonder at the Christmas tree in the middle
of the snowy woods. (Ages 3-6)
This story brings the
magic of Christmas
Eve alive for young children. (Ages 3-6)
Loek Koopmans studied at the Academy of Fine
Arts in Arnhem. In 1993 and 1996 he won the Dutch
Award for best illustrated book.
The First Christmas
For Young Children
Hilde Heyduck-Huth
board
book
ISBN: 9781782500124
board book
floris books $9.95
14 pages
This beautiful board
book introduces
babies and toddlers
to the wonder of
the Christmas story
with radiant illustrations and gentle, simple text. (Ages 1-3)
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The Tomtes’
Christmas Porridge
Sven Nordqvist
Every Christmas Eve, the Master has put out
rice pudding for the tomtes, to say thank
you for their help around the house. But he
has been forgetful lately, so the elves hatch a
plot to steal a bowl of Christmas porridge.
This charming story is based on an old Swedish Christmas tradition. It is illustrated with
great humor and is filled with delightful detail, as the tomte family scurry around trying not
to be seen. (Ages 4-7)
Christmas Books
Christ Legends
Mary’s Little Donkey
new edition; Previously published as The
Emperor’s Vision and other Christ Legends
and the Escape to Egypt
Selma Lagerlöf
Illustrated by Ronald Heuninck
$16.95 224 pages
This is Selma Lagerlof ’s classic telling of the
lives of the men and women whose destinies
were changed forever by the events of Christ’s
life—from the surly shepherd of Bethlehem
to the cruel Emperor Tiberius. These tales are
imaginatively drawn from the colorful history
and landscape of the Holy Land, from the time
of Jesus to the Crusades. (Ages 7-12)
The Light in the Lantern
Little Tomte’s
Christmas Wish
Gunhild Sehlin
Inkeri Karvonen
Illustrated by Hannu Taina
$12.95 160 pages
ISBN: 9781782500162 hardcover floris books
The stubborn, little donkey is of no use to anyone in Nazareth, but he becomes a quick and
willing helper under Mary’s gentle care.
One of the most loved Christmas stories, ideal
for family reading during Advent. (Ages 7-10)
Little Tomte lives happily in his cozy house beside a beautiful tree. When winter arrives, he’s
worried that Christmas won’t come—until he
makes a special wish. He embarks on a candlemaking plan that makes his wish come true.
Gunhild Sehlin worked for over twenty years as a UN
children’s worker in Jordan and Jerusalem.
This heartwarming tale is drawn with gentle
humor. (Ages 3-6)
new edition
Lara’s First
Christmas
Findus at Christmas
Sven Nordqvist
Stories for Advent
Georg Dreißig
Alice O. Howell
Illustrated by
Maggie Mailer
isbn: 9780946206230 Paperback
In the days leading up to Christmas, Mary and
Joseph’s path to Bethlehem is fraught with difficulties, but as these stories reveal, a small miracle
happens on each day. Every story brings us
closer to Christmas, until we reach the stable in
Bethlehem where the light in the lantern is waiting in anticipation of the Christ Child’s birth.
With 28 stories, this book may be used as an
Advent Calendar, with the first week’s stories
relating to the mineral world, the second week
to the plant world, the third week to the animal
kingdom, and the fourth week to human beings.
It is the day before Christmas Eve and there is
lots to do to prepare for Christmas at the house
of Findus the cat and Farmer Pettson. But
disaster strikes when Pettson sprains his ankle.
How can they celebrate Christmas now—with
no tree, ham, and worst of all, no gingerbread?
Findus and Pettson are about to give up, when
suddenly there is a knock on the door...
ISBN: 9780880105538
Paperback
Bell Pond Books $9.95
48 pages
Findus at Christmas is a very funny and touching tale about the gifts of kindness and sharing,
and about how Christmas can bring out the best
in people—and in cats, too! (Ages 3-7)
Lara and her refugee parents are marooned in
a hotel in snowbound Norway before World
War II. Lara is befriended by two Englishmen
who teach her to ski, and most important, she
discovers love and wisdom from a grandfatherly
carpenter, who teaches her that Christmas is a
universal event, open to every heart and faith.
See more of the
Findus series on page 19
This is a warm and luminous story about the
real meaning of Christmas. (Ages 8-11)
A Calf for Christmas
Astrid Lindgren
$17.95 36 pages
It’s the last day of school before Christmas. Johan is sad
because his family’s only cow died, and they have no
money to buy another.
Rich farmer Peter Jonsson has come to town for the
Christmas market. He buys a calf, then, after spending some time in the local inn, he loses it on the
sleigh ride home! When Johan heads out to clear snow, what does he find? (Ages 4-7)
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Christmas Books
A Swedish Christmas
Simple Scandinavian Crafts, Recipes
and Decorations
Caroline Wendt and
Pernilla Wästberg
ISBN: 9781782500155 hardcover floris books
$24.95 128 pages 150 color illlustrations
In this beautiful craft book, the authors present
a wealth of recipes, decorations and gifts to add
a little Scandinavian magic to any Christmas! A
Swedish Christmas is full of wonderful projects
using all kinds of materials and techniques.
Each project comes with simple, easy-to-follow
instructions and beautiful photographs.
The Advent Craft
and Activity Book
Stories, Crafts, Recipes, and Poems
for the Christmas Season
Christel Dohm
$19.95 144 pages
This practical, illustrated book includes creative
suggestions for each day of Advent, as well as
Epiphany. Learn how to bake delicious German
biscuits and Stollen, make advent calendars
and Christmas decorations, and find out more
about legendary figures such as St. Nicholas.
This is a wonderful resource for keeping children engaged and involved with celebrations
throughout the Christmas season.
The Christmas Story Book
Collected by Ineke Verschuren
These stories tell the experience of people who
lived at the time of the birth of the Christ child,
and who sought to worship the newborn king. It
is a colorful collection carefully chosen to show
the spirit of Christmas in many different facets.
Included are stories by Hans Christian Andersen, Leonid Andreiev, Jane Clement, Maxim
Gorki, Gerhard Klein, Selma Lagerlöf, Jeanna
Oterdahl, Peter Rosegger, Ruth Sawyer, and
more. (Ages 5-12)
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The Dream Song
of Olaf Asteson
Christmas Plays
from Oberufer
An Ancient Norwegian Folksong
of the Holy Nights
Preface by Jonathan Stedall
Introduction by Andrew Welburn
Illustrated by Janet Jordan
Translated by Eleanor Merry
Paradise Play, Shepherds Play,
Kings Play
Edited by Hélène Jacquet
The Dream Song of Olaf Åsteson is a folksong
which only came to light in 1850 when a clergyman called Landstad heard it in a lonely valley
in Telemark, Norway. No one knows how long
it had existed, but it’s an epic narrative telling
the story of a young man who slept for twelve
nights in the depths of winter, and then awoke
to share the wondrous sights he had seen.
This edition is illustrated with Janet Jordan’s
striking paintings, which give life to Olaf
and help the modern reader engage with the
ancient saga.
Over hundreds of years, ordinary people in the
small Austrian village of Oberufer on the Danube gathered in the local tavern at Christmastime to perform these plays for their neighbors.
With their roots buried in medieval times, these
plays gradually evolved to incorporate a unique
blend of saucy folk humor and profound reverence in their celebration of the birth of Jesus.
Today these plays from Oberufer are often
performed in the Waldorf School community
at Christmas time.
This edition of the plays—suitable for both
amateur and professional players—offers a clear
layout of the texts, greatly elaborated makeup
and director’s indications, stage and lighting
directions, and detailed costume designs.
The Christmas Craft Book
second Edition
Thomas Berger
ISBN: 9780863158278 Paperback FloriS Books
$19.95 80 pages
Simply made decorations for home or school are
an absorbing way for children to become involved
in the celebrations of Advent
and Christmas.
Parents, teachers, and children will easily learn to make
a wide variety of decorations:
window and table transparencies, decorated
candles, Advent calendars, festive wreaths,
lanterns, straw angels and stars, fleece angels
and foil angels, mobiles, paper window
stars, nativity scenes, and geometric tree
decorations.
The projects are fully illustrated with diagrams and color photographs.
Celebrating Festivals
All Year Round
The Singing Year
Festivals, Family, and Food
Ann Druitt, Christine Fynes-Clinton,
Marije Rowling
Songbook and CD for
Singing with Young Children
Candy Verney
Diana Carey, Judy Large
ISBN: 9781903458396 With Audio CD
Paperback Hawthorn Press, Festivals Series
$33.00 192 pages
This classic family favorite is a unique, wellloved source of stories, recipes, things to make,
activities, poems, songs, and festivals. Each
festival, such as Christmas, Candlemas, and
Martinmas, has its own illustrated chapter. Also
included are sections on birthdays, rainy days,
convalescence, and a birthday calendar.
ISBN: 9781869890476 Paperback Hawthorn
Press, Festivals Series $26.00 288 pages
Stories, poems, activities, things to make,
songs, and helpful drawings. The authors show
that observing a round of festivals can be an
enjoyable way to bring rhythm into children’s
lives, providing meaningful landmarks to look
forward to each season.
The Children’s Year
Crafts and Clothes for Children
and Parents to Make
Stephanie Cooper, Christine
Fynes-Clinton, Marije Rowling
Takes us through the seasons with appropriate
gifts and toys to create, including full, clear
instructions and illustrations.
Singing with your children is a lifetime gift to
them that they will always remember. Singing
about the seasons of the year creates a connection to nature and helps children become aware
of its natural rhythms and cycles.
The Singing Year, which
includes a CD, is arranged by season and
contains over 100
songs. Included are
songs about animals,
plants, and seasonal
phenomena. Each
section ends with
suggestions for crafts
and games.
Festivals Together
A Guide to Multi-Cultural Celebration
Sue Fitzjohn, Minda Weston,
Judy Large
A comprehensive resource guide with activities
and recipes for observing special days according to traditions based on many cultures from
around the world, including Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and Sikh.
The Islamic Year
The Birthday Book
Suras, Stories, and Celebrations
Noorah Al-Gailani, Chris Smith
Celebrations for Everyone
Ann Druitt, Christine FynesClinton, Marije Rowling
ISBN: 9781903458143 Paperback Hawthorn Press,
Festivals Series $32.00 288 pages
Explore Muslim festivals with this inspiring treasury of
stories, suras, songs, games, recipes, crafts and art activities.
A unique resource for educators and parents who want to
share the spiritual wealth of Islam with children.
African and Caribbean
Celebrations
Gail Johnson; Illustrated by Caroline Glanville
ISBN: 9781903458006 Paperback Hawthorn Press,
Festivals series $30.00 224 pages
This guide includes festivals and food; music, dance, and
oral traditions; rites of passage; and a bibliography of
resources for further reading.
Hawthorn Press, Festivals Series
$33.00 254 pages
Birthdays are milestones on our
journey through life. Here is a complete resource for creating your own birthday rituals for the
special people in your life.
The Birthday Book is packed with recipes, stories, songs, games,
and activities, as well as ideas for cards, decorations, and presents. There are chapters on birthdays in ancient times and on
different birthday traditions throughout the world today. Party
suggestions include ideas for all ages—from small children to
teenagers to adults—as well as for celebrating unusual birthdays, such as when they occur during vacations, at Christmas,
or for rainy days.
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Activities with Children
Making Soft Toys
A Felt Farm
Creative Wool
Karin Neuschütz
Rotraud Reinhard
$19.95 112 pages
$19.95 160 pages
Making Woolen Crafts with Children
Karin Neuschütz
This fully illustrated
craft book explains
how to make a wide
range of fabric soft
toys, from dolls and
their clothes, glove
puppets, teddy
bears and cuddly
animals, to smaller
animals for a farm scene or wildlife park. Each
project includes step-by-step instructions and
clear diagrams, as well as patterns and color
photographs.
This craft book contains step-by-step instructions and beautiful color photographs showing
how to make an entire farm of felted animals,
people, and tools, as well as the farmyard itself.
The author gives many tips and tricks throughout the book for working with felt that will
bring color and life to your felted farm.
These projects are suitable for both beginners
and experienced crafters. They can all be sewn
by hand rather than machine, if preferred.
Karin Neuschütz, a native of Sweden, has written
several instruction books for making dolls and toys.
Magic Wool Fairies
Christine Schäfer
$19.95 104 pages
Un s p u n s h e e p’s
wool, also known
as magic wool, is a
warm, vibrant material that is perfect
for making beautiful
soft figures. Christine Schäfer includes
detailed instructions
on making fairies
and angels for every occasion—flower fairies
for a seasonal nature table; fairies for birthday
celebrations; guardian angels to watch over a
crib; and of course a range of Christmas angels.
Step-by-step instructions, color photographs,
and diagrams clearly show the basics for making simple figures. The book progresses to more
detailed instructions for making increasingly
elaborate versions.
Christine Schäfer leads workshops and presents her
work at exhibitions.
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The second part of the book is a charming illustrated story that uses the characters, animals
and settings from the first part to tell the story
of a fun-filled day on a farm.
Young children can
make the simplest
farm elements, such
as apples, bowls, balls,
and puddles, while
older children will be
able to felt simple animals and accessories,
and adults with some
felting experience can
felt the more intricate animals and farm structures. A felted farm is a wonderful project for
the whole family to work on together.
Rotraud Reinhard began working with felt in 1989
and developed the technique that makes possible
three-dimensional felting. She leads felting workshops and offers lessons in schools and kindergartens. She is the author of several books on felting.
$19.95 80 pages
This lively craft
book shows how
to make a range of
handicrafts from
fleece and yarn,
in clud ing toys,
friendship bracelets
and braids, balls,
pompoms, dolls
and doll clothes, a cat glove puppet or mouse
finger puppet, and felted animals and masks.
With clear diagrams and instructions, the book
starts by introducing basic methods of spinning
yarn, crocheting, knitting, and felting. There is
a broad range of projects for children of all ages
as well as adults.
Karin Neuschütz has written several instruction
books for making dolls and toys.
The Wonder of Trees
Nature Activities for Children
Andrea Frommherz
and Edith Biedermann
$24.95 144 pages 275 color illustrations
In this richly illustrated, practical
book, children are
encouraged to use
all their senses in
getting to know
thirteen common
trees. Activities
include stories,
songs, games,
craft ideas, and
traditional rituals associated with trees, as well
as recipes for food and the medicine cabinet.
Andrea Frommherz is a teacher and environmental
consultant.
Edith Biedermann is an arts and crafts teacher in
Bern, Switzerland.
Making Fairy Tale Scenes
Making More
Flower Children
Sybille Adolphi
$25.00 96 pages
Children will thoroughly enjoy making and
playing with the range of well-known fairy
tale scenes and characters provided in this
colorful book, including Cinderella, Hansel
and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin,
Tom Thumb, Rapunzel, and Snow White and
the Seven Dwarves.
Fairy tale scenes are made from a range of
easy-to-find natural materials, including wool,
felt, and cotton, and are great fun to make.
This book contains all the necessary patterns
and instructions and is clearly illustrated with
diagrams and color photographs. The scenes
are organized according to season, so the story
can be matched to the appropriate time of year.
Sybille Adolphi
Expanded second edition
Making flower children is a fun craft activity
that uses a range of easy-to-find materials,
including wool, felt, and cotton. Making More
Flower Children contains all the patterns and
instructions needed to make flower children—
strawberries, shamrocks, mistletoe, daisies—
and is illustrated clearly with diagrams and
color photographs.
$25.00 192 pages
This sequel to the popular Making Flower Children offers an entirely new set of flower children
to make. The figures are arranged by season and
are ideal for decorating a seasonal table.
The step-by-step
instructions and
clear color photographs guide
you through
each stage of the
felt-making process. Even if you
have never used
a sewing needle
before, the templates and ideas provided will have you making
beautiful hats, brooches, and dolls in no time.
Sewing Dolls
Karin Neuschütz
Making Flower Children
Adults and children alike will love making and
playing with these dolls, which are all made
from natural materials. Patterns are provided
for a range of dolls: small dolls for the littlest
child, baby dolls, larger dolls to dress up, knitted
dolls and dolls with moveable arms and legs.
With different hairstyles and clothing options,
the dolls can be varied endlessly.
Sybille Adolphi
$20.00 80 pages
Detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations for making a range of lively, creative flower
figures. Many of the figures are recognizable
from Elsa Beskow’s popular picture books,
and from Sybille von Olfers’ The Story of the
Root Children.
Activities are organized by season, making the
book ideal for decorating a nature corner or
seasonal table in the home or classroom.
Felting and Making More
Toys and Gifts
$20.00 80 pages
Sybille Adolphi was born in Stuttgart in 1953. She has
been a kindergarten nurse and a teacher in a specialneeds school. She is married with two children.
second Edition
Creative Felt
$25.00 112 pages
The book contains all the necessary patterns
and detailed instructions, and is richly illustrated with color photographs and drawings.
Angelika Wolk-Gerche
Felt is remarkably easy to use and an extremely
versatile material. In this expanded second edition, Creative Felt shows you how to make felt
without having to use special tools. The author
includes an even wider range of toys and gifts
to make in this second edition.
Angelika Wolk-Gerche was born in 1951. She studied
design in Hanover and became an art teacher. She
now works as a freelance illustrator and textile designer, as well as running courses in arts and crafts.
She lives near Stuttgart, Germany and is also the
author of More Magic Wool and Papercraft.
Karin Neuschütz, a native of Sweden, studied psychology, education, and sociology and has long been
interested in crafts. She has written several instruction books for making dolls and toys.
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Papercraft
Baking Bread with Children
Making Geometry
Warren Lee Cohen
Foreword by Tom Herbert
Illustrated by Marjie Rowling
Exploring Three-Dimensional Forms
Jon Allen
Paper is a remarkably versatile, easy-to-use,
and easy-to-find material for use in arts and
crafts. In this book are detailed instructions
for making hundreds of things out of paper.
Papercraft includes easy-to-follow instructions
for cutting out paper stars; folding birds, insects,
and animals; and making windmills, masks, and
gift-bags. You can even cut a hole in a postcard
that you can climb through! Also included are
instructions for making papier mâché and
handmade paper and for working with pulp.
Angelika Wolk-Gerche studied design in Hanover
before becoming an art teacher. She now works as a
freelance illustrator and textile designer, and leads
courses in arts and crafts.
Here are: fun breads (chapatti, cinnamon rolls,
cheesy snails); festive breads (dragonbread,
challah, hot cross buns); quick breads
(Irish soda bread, gingerbread men, almond rice muffins); sourdough breads,
and leftover bread (bread and butter pudding, herbed crostini).
Finger Strings
A Book of Cat’s Cradles
and String Figures
Michael Taylor
ISBN: 9780863156656 Ringbound Paperback
Floris Books $25.00 144 pages 600+ color
illustrations 2 colored strings included
Finger string games are a wonderful opportunity for today’s children to practice meaningful
movement, explore space, interact with others,
and exercise their creative spirits.
String games can be especially useful to children
who struggle at school or are dyslexic, and for
those who are learning the concepts of “left and
right” and “up and down.” Finger Strings contains games that will delight all children, from
the very young to those with greater dexterity.
Ringbound to lie flat. Includes two brightly
colored strings to get you started.
Michael Taylor, a teacher at Michael Hall (Waldorf)
School in the UK, is often called the “String Man.” He
always carries a string with him, and has been known
to share string patterns with strangers on trains and
airplanes. He is the author of Finger Strings; Pull the
Other One! and Now You See It...
“Baking Bread with Children is sure to nourish
body, mind, and spirit.” —Edward Espe Brown,
author, The Tassajara Bread Book
“I strongly recommend it!” —Mollie Katzen,
author, Moosewood Cookbook
This book has everything you need to share
the magic of baking with children of all ages.
The techniques and recipes are wonderfully
seasoned with stories, songs, and poems.
Included are detailed instructions for
building and using a bread oven, baking
projects for kindergarten and school,
information on nutrition, a bibliography,
and a list of websites.
Warren Lee Cohen is director of the Foundation Studies program at Emerson College in England. He has
over 20 years experience of baking bread with children.
He conducts workshops in the art of baking bread in
handcrafted ovens and over wood fires.
$24.95 136 pages 120 b/w illustrations
Following his successful Drawing Geometry, Jon
Allen explores the creation of the many-sided
three-dimensional forms known as the Platonic
and Archimedean solids. Based on patterns of
equally spaced points on a sphere, these polyhedra have been the fundamentals of geometric
exploration for millennia.
This unique book provides systematic instructions for constructing the three-dimensional
forms and shows how to draw out accurately
the geometry of the paperfold nets.
Beginners and experienced artists and designers alike will find
this book a source of
practical guidance
that will amply repay
the careful attention
needed to construct
the models.
Jon Allen has been a
practicing architect for twenty-five years. He has
worked closely with Keith Critchlow, a world
authority on geometry, and has developed a particular interest in the application of geometry in
architectural design.
The Children’s Party Book
For Birthdays and Other Occasions
Anne and Peter Thomas
Illustrated by Anjo Mutsaars
ISBN: 9780863156397 paperback Floris Books $25.00 120 pages
This popular guide for arranging a child’s party contains more
than 240 ideas for indoor and outdoor games, plus craft activities for children from three to twelve years old.
Anne and Peter Thomas are the authors of two activity books for children and parents.
Anjo Mutsaars trained as an illustrator at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunst.
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weaving with children
Knitted Animals
Magic Wool Fruit Children
Ute Fischer
Anne-Dorthe Grigaff
Christine Schäfer
Color photographs
Weaving is a creative and practical
art that’s fun for all
ages and abilities.
Learn to weave a
wonderful variety
of objects—a rainbow-beaded necklace, juggling balls,
a scarf, and even a
spider in its web.
Some of the weavings have everyday uses—a
phone pocket, a pot holder—and some are just
for fun—fairyland mushrooms, an Easter hen.
There are 21 projects rated from easy to difficult, each one accompanied by easy-to-follow
instructions and photos that show how to weave
with a variety of materials from wool to rags
and recycled plastic bags. You can also learn
to make your own loom, how to finish your
project, and how to felt your weaving.
This book provides instructions
for making more
than twenty different knitted animals, including a
mother duck and
ducklings, a shaggy
brown bear, lambs,
cats and kittens, dogs, squirrels, geese, rabbits,
horses, foxes, pigs and piglets, hedgehogs, and
mice. These projects are suitable for anyone
with basic knitting skills, even children and
beginning knitters.
D ye d u n s p u n
sheep’s wool, also
known as “magic
wool,” is the perfect material to
craft an enchanting collection of
miniature fruit
children, which
are perfect for a nature corner or seasonal table.
The author includes clear instructions along
with color photographs and diagrams on how to
create fruits for every season—berries, acorns,
apples, plums, mandarins, toadstools, pumpkins—and delightful little people to match.
Making Peg Dolls
Margaret Bloom
Color illustrations
Peg dolls are enchanting and easy to make. They
are a perfect craft for children and can inspire
creative play and storytelling.
This book features:
over sixty designs
and patterns for
bluebirds, butterflies, flowers,
fairytale figures,
gnomes, winter
angels, and more;
easy-to-follow
instructions for
crafters of all levels; beautiful illustrations and
photos; ideas for gifts and toys, nature tables, or
fairs; and a section on storytelling with peg dolls.
A First Book of Knitting
for Children
Bonnie Gosse and Jill Allerton
ISBN: 9780946206551 Wynstones Press
paperback $19.95 96 pages
color photographs and illustrations
Rhymes and photos
show in detail the basic
steps of knitting. A
thorough introduction
to knit stitch and purl
stitch is followed by
enticing patterns which
are easy to make, and
the completed projects
are fun to play with. This book is also a valuable
resource for adults wishing to learn how to knit.
Knitting for Children
A Second Book
Bonnie Gosse and Jill Allerton
ISBN: 9780946206537 Wynstones Press
paperback $24.95 108 pages
color photographs and illustrations
In this second book, the authors bring many new
skills and a selection of patterns for both children and adults to
make. Each pattern is given with
clear instructions
and illustrated
by photographs.
Recommended
for all ages!
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Magic Wool
More Magic Wool
The Nature Corner
Creative Pictures and Tableaux with
Natural Sheep’s Wool
Creating Figures and Pictures with
Dyed Wool
second Edition
second Edition
Freya Jaffke and Dagmar Schmidt
$19.95 80 pages
Activities with unspun sheep’s wool,
also known as magic wool, offer a wide
range of creative
possibilities for
children and adults.
This book shows
how to create beautiful pictures and
tabletop scenes featuring figures and animals. The authors explain
the process of carding and dyeing unspun wool
to make “magic wool.” They focus on making
pictures with wool, including scenes from
several well-known fairy tales and festivals,
then they show how to make simple dolls and
animals, leading up to an entire nativity scene.
$15.95 80 pages
This is a sequel to the popular Magic Wool by
Dagmar Schmidt and Freya Jaffke on creative
activities with plant-dyed sheep’s wool. In
More Magic Wool, Angelika Wolk-Gerche offers
full instructions for making subtle figures and
pictures with the colorful, unspun sheep’s wool.
Plant-dyed wool offers great possibilities for
creating scenes which stimulate the imagination.
$20.00 88 pages
Seasonal nature tables are an invaluable way of
making young children aware of the changing
cycle of the year. With simple materials and basic
knitting and crocheting skills, colorful and effective tableaux can be made at home or in school
for depicting the seasons and major festivals.
Angelika Wolk-Gerche studied design before becoming an art teacher. She works as an illustrator and
textile designer, and leads courses in arts and crafts.
Freya Jaffke was a Waldorf School kindergarten in
Germany. She lectures widely on early childhood.
Magical Window Stars
Frédérique Guéret
$20.00 96 pages
Using special paper-folding techniques, coloured tissue
paper can be transformed into magical window stars,
suitable for any season.
This book contains step-by-step instructions for making
25 window stars. Each design is graded for difficulty, to
allow the beginner to progress easily and confidently.
Frédérique Guéret also shows how the stars can be
painted with additional colour accents which, when the light shines through in a certain
way, create a dazzling veined effect.
Frédérique Guéret was born in France in 1949. After completing her art training, she developed her
own method of paper-folding with tissue paper and first published her window transparencies in 1999.
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M. van Leeuwen and J. Moeskops
Painting with Children
fourth Edition
Brunhild Müller
$15.95 48 pages Color photographs
A vital factor in every child’s development is the
stimulation of active imagination and creativity.
This book presents ideas that encourage selfexpression through the medium of watercolors.
Fundamental and practical, this book is based
on Goethe’s color theory, showing that painting
with children is more than merely a form of selfexpression—Brunhild Müller encourages the
reader to understand children’s fantasies and
inner being through their artworks.
This is an essential guide for
both parents and teachers.
It covers preparation,
color stories and
poems, and painting the moods
of nature and
the seasons of
the year.
Feltcraft
Crafts through the Year
Making Dolls, Gifts, and Toys
second Edition
Revised second Edition
Thomas Berger and Petra Berger
Petra Berger
$24.95 176 pages
$25.00 96 pages
This new large-format edition includes
detailed, step-bystep instructions for
a range of lively and
creative ideas, such
as small dolls, finger
and glove puppets,
animals, finger- and
wrist-bands, and wall tapestries.
Petra Berger lives in the Netherlands and has three
children. She and her husband have always found
creative ways to celebrate festivals and the seasons
with their family.
Simply made decorations for home or school
are an absorbing way for children to become
involved in celebrating the yearly festivals.
Detailed instructions, diagrams and color photographs on making a range of seasonal items
are given: decorated Easter eggs and candles,
corn dolls, straw horses, dough figures, felted
chickens, origami swans, tissue-paper flowers,
pine cone mice, a teasel hedgehog, autumn
garlands, lanterns, festive wreaths, Christmas
transparencies to brighten winter windows,
and much more!
Crafts through the Year is a completely revised
compilation of the authors’ very successful
Christmas Craft Book, The Easter Craft Book,
and The Harvest Craft Book.
Thomas Berger studied graphics and worked in
printing and publishing in Holland. He and his wife
Petra have found creative ways of celebrating the
festivals and seasons of the year with their children.
Making
Waldorf
Dolls
Earth, Water, Fire and Air
Playful Explorations
in the Four Elements
third Edition
Walter Kraul
$25.00 104 pages
Earth, Water, Fire, and Air encourages children’s interest in the surrounding natural
world, illustrating a broad range of activities,
games, and toys to make, each involving one
of the four elements. In fun, creative ways, the
projects introduce children to basic scientific
principles, such as gravity, momentum, and
light refraction.
The book provides full instructions and
diagrams for making projects such as a waterwheel, a paddlewheel boat, a propeller plane,
a parachute, a windmill, a simple pendulum
clock, spinning tops, a hot-air balloon, and
much more. Some are simple enough for a
six-year-old, others are challenging enough for
a twelve-year-old to enjoy. (Ages 6-12)
Toymaking with Children
third Edition
A Waldorf
Doll-Making
Handbook
The Gnome Craft Book
Freya Jaffke
second Edition
$25.00 144 pages
revised Edition
$25.00 96 pages
Thomas Berger and Petra Berger
Maricristin
Sealey
ISBN 9781903458587 Paperback Hawthorn
“A fine source for the beginner doll maker, full
of practical tips, simple designs and clear, easy
to follow instructions.”—Sara MacDonald,
Magic Cabin Dolls Company
This is a comprehensive guide for both beginners and experienced doll makers. Handmade
dolls with their simplicity of expression and
design leave children’s imaginations free. These
dolls encourage the magic of creative play and
bring children the gift of imagination in which
they see themselves as “makers.”
How to make gnomes out of walnuts, twigs,
wool, and paper, as well as a variety of other
media. There are plenty of different gnomes to
keep children amused for hours.
Includes instructions for making Astrid Lindgren’s classic gnome, the Tomten.
The toys that surround children during their
first five years are essential tools for their
awakening imaginations. Freya Jaffke provides
many helpful suggestions for selecting ageappropriate toys for young children. There are
also directions for making a variety of simple,
engaging toys, as well as sections on the meaning of play and how to help children play.
Freya Jaffke was born in 1937. She worked at Reutlingen kindergarten in Germany for many years and
now lectures throughout the world.
This new edition is published with a completely
revised resource list.
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Come Follow Me
Lorraine Nelson Wolf
ISBN: 726779723925 41 minutes
Audio CD Come Follow Me
Productions $16.95
A 2004 Parents’ Choice
Approved Award Winner
Come Follow Me is an audio CD
of 25 delightful folk songs for
young children which are simply
and beautifully arranged with
piano, accordian, harp, or guitar
accompaniment.
Come Follow Me
Volume Two
Lorraine Nelson Wolf
ISBN: 700261245645 45 minutes
audio cd Come Follow Me
Productions $16.95
The companion volume featuring
more delightful songs.
Storytelling
with Children
Nancy Mellon; Foreword
by Thomas Moore
192 pages
“A book born of years of experience,
written from the heart, and stirring
to the soul.” —Katrina Kenison,
author of Mitten Strings for God:
Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry
Storytelling with Children awakens
wonder and creates special occasions for children, whether at
bedtime, around the fire, or on
rainy days. Nancy Mellon encourages you to spin golden tales and
shows you how to become a confident storyteller. For every early
childhood schoolteacher and all
parents of young children.
Celebrating
Festivals
with Children
Children’s Games
in Street and
Playground
Freya Jaffke
Iona Opie and Peter Opie
Freya Jaffke considers the main festivals and special events throughout the year—Easter, Pentecost,
St. John’s, back-to-school, harvest,
Michaelmas, birthdays, Halloween,
Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas,
Epiphany, and more, showing how
we can celebrate them in a meaningful way with children, both at
home and in school. Every festival
is prefaced with a deeper contemplation for adults, and includes
games, craft activities, stories,
songs, poems, and decorations for
the seasonal nature table.
This is a combined edition of the
previously published Children’s
Games in Street and Playground,
Volumes 1 and 2.
This collection features games
played in streets, parks, playgrounds and wastelands by more
than 10,000 children. Around
125 games are described in detail,
including the rhymes and sayings
children repeat while playing
them, together with the different names they are called. Brief
historical notes are also included
where relevant.
Drawing with Hand, Head, and Heart
A Natural Approach to Learning the Art of Drawing
Van James
color & b/w illustrations
Van James helps us to understand visual art by enabling us to enter into
the world of form and color as such, not simply as the media to depict representational reality . . . he guides us into developing new ways of seeing.
—Hans-Joachim Mattke, International Waldorf school consultant, author,
actor and stage director
Drawing with Hand, Head, and Heart is a comprehensive and practical
guide to the art of drawing and process of visual thinking that is part
of our full human intelligence. More than 500 illustrated exercises and
examples, collected and developed over years of Waldorf classroom experience, show teachers, parents, and
students how to learn to draw simply and naturally, as a child would learn to draw. Many examples of form drawing, portraiture, and geometric and perspective drawing illustrate the art and science of drawing for students of all ages and
ability levels. Van James also provides samples of blackboard drawings and main lesson book pages for teachers and students.
Van James is a writer, international adult education instructor, and teaching artist at the Honolulu Waldorf High School and at the Kula
Makua Teacher Training Program in Hawaii. As an artist, he has exhibited in Europe, the United States, and Asia, where his paintings
have received awards and are found in numerous private collections. He is the author of, among other books, Spirit and Art: Pictures of
the Transformation of Consciousness and The Secret Language of Form: Visual Meaning in Art and Nature.
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The Storyteller’s Way
Puppet Theatre
A Sourcebook for Inspired
Storytelling
Ashley Ramsden and
Sue Hollingsworth
Maija Baric
Illustrations by Kristiina Louhi
Everyone can tell a story, but to tell it well you
need a certain set of skills. Whether you’re starting out or want to develop your storytelling
expertise, this book is an essential guide.
Use this book to tell stories for entertainment,
teaching, coaching, healing, or making meaning.
It contains stories, exercises, questions, and tips,
offering time-tested ways to improve your skills,
overcome blocks, and become a confident and
inspirational storyteller.
Ashley Ramsden and Sue Hollingsworth teach at
the International School of Storytelling in England.
Ashley’s unique methods of teaching voice and
storytelling have received international acclaim. Sue
tells true-life tales, leads storywalks, runs storytelling
retreats, and performs and leads courses worldwide.
Green Fingers and
Muddy Boots
$30.00 112 pages CD Included Color
illustrations
Green Fingers and Muddy Boots—with worksheets on the accompanying CD—presents
practical and fun activities in the garden for
every month of the year, come rain or shine.
Activities range from growing flowers and
vegetables to spotting birds and tracking the
weather and keeping a garden diary.
This book is based on the original “Plant and
Grow” children’s gardening course developed
with the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society,
which has been used successfully by many families and schools for several years. (Ages 7-14)
Ivan Santer has lectured on agriculture throughout
the UK for thirty-five years.
Beatrys Lockie
Color illustrations
Hawthorn Press Early years series $27.00
156 pages illustrated
With wit and ingenuity, Maija Baric shows how
to transform wooden spoons, pieces of string,
holey socks, and other scrap materials into
durable and functional puppets. You’ll learn to
build staging, scenery, and props and how to
create sound effects and devise performances.
Use your puppets to transform storytelling at
home or in the classroom, ease children’s bedtime rituals, and make a birthday truly special.
This book is an imaginative guide to a child’s
experience of a year in the garden. Growing
activities are interwoven with ideas for things
to make with berries, seeds, and leaves; recipes;
and stories, songs, and poems about insects and
animals. Gardening techniques for every stage of
the growing cycle are explained and illustrated.
The activities are suitable for gardens of all sizes.
Maija Baric is artistic director of Puppet Theater
Sampo in Helsinki, Finland. She leads courses in
puppetry, directs and performs puppet shows, and
designs and creates theatrical puppets.
Beatrys Lockie worked as a kindergarten teacher
and lectured widely on early childhood education.
Kristiina Louhi (b. 1950) is one of the most popular
illustrators in Finland.
Under
the Sky
Playing, Working,
and Enjoying
Adventures in the
Open Air
Sally Schweizer
A Year in the Garden for Children
and Families
Ivor Santer
Gardening With
Young Children
ISBN: 9781855842151
Paperback
Rudolf Steiner Press
Packed with anecdotes, games and practical activities, Under the Sky is a resource for everyone
who wants to help children cultivate play and
imagination in the open air. It features ideas for
planning expeditions and adventures, toys and
equipment, and activities for the four seasons
and the four elements. Included are plans, tips,
and advice on child-friendly outdoor design,
materials, surfaces, seating, gardening, pets,
wildlife—even campfires and train journeys.
Sally Schweizer is a state-trained teacher. She has
taught children mostly under seven, and has trained
teachers and been an adviser.
Soul Development through
Handwriting
The Waldorf Approach to the
Vimala Alphabet
Jennifer Crebbin
$20.00 128 pages
The Vimala Alphabet was meticulously designed to support independent thinking,
engaged willpower, balance, tolerance, honor,
and intuition, as well as strengthening the
developing soul forces of children.
It includes a summary of the Waldorf method
of teaching writing to young children, ideas for
introducing the Vimala Alphabet into different
grades, and details on using the Vimala Alphabet as a transformative tool for children. Also
included are descriptions of the letters and their
qualities, practice pages, letter forms to avoid,
and tools to assist in teaching handwriting.
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Cookbooks
The Vegan Family Cookbook
Brian McCarthy
Lantern Books $20.00 336 pages
Now that you’ve become a vegan, you’re learning lots of ways to prepare tofu, but you or
someone you love is really starting to miss
macaroni and cheese, turkey dinners, pumpkin
pie, and birthday cake. Maybe you and your
family feel self-conscious (and hungry) at
holidays, picnics, and parties. Or maybe just one
person in your family is vegan, but you need to
create meals that everyone will eat.
Since the day Brian McCarthy and his wife chose
a vegan diet for their family, Chef McCarthy
has created over 400 simple vegan recipes with
easy-to-find ingredients for traditional favorites
like biscuits, corn bread, stews, pastas, pizzas,
cakes, pies, and even egg(less) nog. All the
recipes come from the McCarthy home kitchen
and have passed the test of many family meals.
Brian P. McCarthy has been a professional cook and
chef since 1982. He is currently a chef at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is an instructor for
The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts.
Cooking for the Love
of the World
Real Nutrition that Doesn’t Cost
the Earth
Wendy E. Cook
Awakening Our Spirituality
through Cooking
Anne-Marie Fryer Wiboltt
Foreword by Robert Sardello
Clairview Books $39.00 256 pages
color Illustrations
Illustrated with hundreds of color photographs,
The Biodynamic Food & Cookbook explains the
principles behind biodynamic methods and
places it in the context of food and cooking
through the ages. Wendy Cook takes us on a
journey through the four seasons with more
than 150 delicious recipes based on many years
of working with biodynamic nutrition. She
considers the ethics of food, the foundation of
a balanced diet, and conjures up the color and
vibrancy of Mallorca, which has contributed so
much to her personal approach. Included are
supplementary sections on breads, sauces, salads,
desserts, drinks, and much more.
Wendy E. Cook is a writer and speaker on nutritional issues.
Foodwise
The Demeter Cookbook
Recipes Based on
Biodynamic Ingredients—
From the Kitchen of the Lukas Klinik
Hermann Spindler
Translated by Matthew Barton
Temple Lodge $40.00 272 pages
More than 200 delicious lacto-vegetarian, whole
food recipes—based on the core principles of
anthroposophic nutrition—developed and
collected by the Swiss chef Hermann Spindler.
Included are tempting recipes for sauces, soups,
hors d’oeuvres, salads, main dishes, puddings,
and desserts. Also features special recipes for
casseroles and gratins, vegetables, quark (curd
cheese) dishes, grain dishes, doughs, savory and
sweet pastries, muesli, and drinks.
Hermann Spindler has been head chef at the Lukas
Clinic for 15 years, where his kitchen has gained
an outstanding reputation for food preparation
methods that conserve nutritional value, as well as
the imaginative presentation of dishes.
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The Biodynamic Food
and Cookbook
Understanding What We Eat
and How It Affects Us
Wendy E. Cook
ISBN: 9781905570232 Paperback 2nd edition
Clairview Books, Health and Healing Series
$34.00 352 pages
“Rich and sensitive… a how-to book with a
diffference; it tells you how to live.” —Elizabeth
Luard, author of Sacred Food
Foodwise presents ideas, advice, and commentary inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner.
Wendy Cook relates human evolution and
changes in consciousness to different foods,
considering topics such as agricultural methods, the importance of grasses and grains, the
mystery of human digestion, and vegetarianism. She discusses carbohydrates, minerals, fats
and oils, dairy products, herbs and spices, salt,
sweeteners, stimulants, legumes, nightshade
foods, bread, water, and dietary supplements.
She ends with practical tips on cooking, planning menus, children’s food, and sharing
meals—plus mouth-watering recipes!
Goldenstone Press $22.95 200 pages
“Until we can consciously enter into the miracle
of food, we are lost in one popular speculation
after another concerning how to eat.” —Robert
Sardello
An internationally acclaimed biodynamic farmer, natural health counselor, and nutritional
cooking teacher infuses cooking and eating with
deeply reverent and spiritual consciousness.
Food is placed within an understanding of the
earthly and cosmic forces of plant life, and over
100 exquisite recipes transform nature into the
art of cooking.
Anne-Marie Fryer Wiboltt is a Waldorf class and
kindergarten teacher, biodynamic farmer, author,
and natural-health counselor.
The Vegan Diet as Chronic
Disease Prevention
Evidence Supporting the
New Four Food Groups
Kerrie K. Saunders, Ph.D., M.S., L.L.P.
The United States is one of the sickest nations
on the planet. Most Americans accept degenerative chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes,
atherosclerosis, heart disease, osteoporosis,
and cancer as part of the normal aging process.
Find out how a diet based on the New Food
Four Groups can help prevent or alleviate the
chronic diseases that affect so many Americans—often without the need for pills, surgery,
or fad diets. In this thoroughly researched and
comprehensive guide, the author points the way
to new standards of health and health care for
the twenty-first century.
Dr. Kerrie Saunders, M.S., L.L.P., Ph.D., is an internationally known presenter and bestselling author,
with work featured on television and radio, and in
numerous newspapers, books and magazines.
Cookbooks
The Waldorf Kindergarten
Snack Book
The Waldorf Book
of Breads
Lisa Hildreth; Illustrated by Jo Valens
Collected by Marsha Post
Illustrated by Jo Valens
Edited and Introduced
by Winslow Eliot
ISBN: 9780880105637 Wirebound Paperback
Bell Pond Books $12.95 64 Pages
In this compendium of recipes, information,
and anecdotes, Waldorf kindergarten teacher
Lisa Hildreth has written a rich book for teacher, parent, or caretaker. Create soups, bread, or
fruit dishes with your child. Learn how foods
affect us differently and how to use them. This
is a book to use and treasure. Whimsically and
joyously illustrated by kindergarten teacher Jo
Valens, you’ll find yourself pouring over this
book time and again. Includes a chapter on
birthday and festival foods.
Lisa Hildreth is a kindergarten teacher at the Susquehanna Waldorf School.
Jo Valens teaches kindergarten at the Rudolf Steiner
School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
the Waldorf School
Book of Soups
Who doesn’t like to knead bread, watch it rise,
and taste it fresh from the oven? These recipes
have been handed down by grandmothers,
mothers, aunts, and friends. They are easy to
follow and encourage bakers to use the best
possible ingredients, making bread once again
the healthy “staff of life” it once was. Included
are tasty breads for the daily table and specialty
breads for the seasons and special occasions.
The Living Kitchen
Organic Vegetarian Cooking
for Family and Friends
Jutka Harstein Cohn
$29.95 232 pages
Collected by Marsha Post
Illustrated by Jo Valens
Introduced and Arranged
by Andrea Huff
Whether as a quick snack, part of a full-course
dinner, or as the whole meal, there is nothing
quite like a good bowl of soup.
Many Waldorf school teachers, staff, parents,
alumni, and friends of the Waldorf school
movement have contributed their favorite
recipes to make up this collection. You will find
everything from stocks and broths to selections
of vegetable, bean, cream, tomato, seafood,
chicken soups, as well as beef and dessert soups.
And no cookbook of soups would be complete
without Stone Soup! There is something here
for everyone.
Marsha Post is senior editor, translator, and Waldorf
and adult education coordinator for SteinerBooks.
steinerbooks $14.95 64 pages
With so many customers from her restaurant
asking for her recipes, Jutka Harstein decided
it was time to write a cook book. Jutka shares
stories of food from her childhood in Hungary,
popular recipes for healthy children’s meals, celebratory food to share with friends, and recipes
for the seasons. Inspired by the work of Rudolf
Steiner, Jutka includes advice on nutrition and
on planning balanced meals that nourish the
body, mind, and spirit. She provides delicious
options for including seven grains over the
seven days of the week.
Jutka (Judith) Harstein Cohn manages the organic,
vegetarian restaurant at Kibbutz Harduf in Israel and
lectures on nutrition in Waldorf schools.
Food Full of Life
Nourishing Body, Soul, and Spirit
Gill Bacchus
$19.95 144 pages
Is organic and biodynamic food worth the
higher price? Gill Bacchus concludes that
modern scientific methods cannot measure the
true life processes that give quality to our food.
Exploring ideas from organics and biodynamics, she offers advice on how we can learn to find
and prepare food that is “full of life and light.”
Gill Bacchus has researched and studied widely the
topic of food nutritional quality and how it is measured, completing a Master of Science degree in 2003.
She coauthored (as Gillian Cole) the biodynamic
farming book Grasp the Nettle.
The Community Cooks
Edited by Susanne Bennett
Illustrated by Elizabeth Auer
The Community Cooks is a melting pot of favorite recipes collected
from the families of the Pine Hill Waldorf School and the Wilton/
Temple Farm Community in Wilton, New Hampshire.
This diverse assortment of tried and true recipes includes a favorite salad dressing, waffles that
surpass all others, pancakes fit for a queen, Aunt Pat’s chicken dish, grandma’s meatballs, and exotic recipes brought back from far away places (including a Quechuan Indian dish from Cuzco).
The Temple/Wilton Community Farm Specials include inspiring dishes to use all those usual and
unusual vegetables from your CSA farm share, and there is a section of “fun” recipes for children
to make on their own.
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Family and Child Health
A Child is Born
Birth and Breastfeeding
Natural Birth
A Natural Guide to Pregnancy,
Birth and Early Childhood
Wilhelm zur Linden, M.D.
Rediscovering the Needs of Women
During Pregnancy and Childbirth
Michel Odent
A Holistic Guide to Pregnancy,
Childbirth, and Breastfeeding
Kristina Turner
$16.95 144 pages
Today’s prospective parents are confronted by
a huge selection of guidebooks on pregnancy,
birth, and early childhood, and many of them
offer sensible advice and sound information
that can help mothers and fathers. Nonetheless,
Dr zur Linden’s long-established natural care
book offers an important additional dimension. In clear, accessible language he explains
what newborn babies and small children need
to harmoniously develop the full potential of
body, soul, and spirit. Based on a broad perspective, he offers many practical suggestions.
Beginning with the growing embryo during pregnancy, the author guides the reader
through the birth; the postnatal period and
breastfeeding; care of newborn babies; meals
for babies; and caring for children when they
are sick. He includes useful sections on bottlefeeding, almond milk, and water quality.
This new edition has been expanded to include
matters of contraception, drugs, a father’s presence during birthing, thumb sucking, sleep, crib
death, overheating, and more.
Dr. Wilhelm zur Linden was a pediatrician and
general practitioner.
The Good Sleep Guide
for You and Your Baby
Angela Henderson
Foreword by Sally Goddard Blythe
This tried and tested guide will help you resolve
your child’s sleep problems. One third of parents
with babies aged six months are woken up between one and eight times a night; yet you can
prevent this situation. Packed with medically approved methods, tips, and practical suggestions.
Angela Henderson is a psychologist and self-help
writer. She speaks regularly about children’s sleep
issues on radio and television.
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“Just when we thought everything had already
been said about birth and breastfeeding, Odent
challenges us anew with a vision that is both
provocative and compelling.” —Marian Thompson, president emeritus and co-founder, La Leche
League, International
Today, many women give birth without the
natural release of “love hormones,” giving
birth via caesarean section or using drugs that
not only block the release of these natural
substances but also do not have their beneficial
behavioral effects. This unprecedented situation
gives us urgent new reasons to rediscover the
basic needs of women in labor.
Michel Odent is popularly known as the obstetrician
who introduced the concepts of birthing pools and
homelike birthing rooms in the 1960s and 1970s. He
founded the Primal Health Research Centre in London and has developed a pre-conception program
to minimize the effects of intrauterine and milk
pollution. He is the author of dozens of scientific
papers and ten books published in twenty languages.
Primal Health
Understanding the Critical Period
Between Conception and the
First Birthday
Michel Odent
In this prophetic book, Michel Odent asserts that
various aspects of the “primal adaptive system”
develop, regulate, and adapt during fetal life, birth,
and infancy. Everything during this period of dependence on the mother influences primal health.
He suggests that later well-being as adults and
the ability to withstand hypertension, cancer,
alcoholism, and failures of the immune system
can all be traced back to society’s ignorance of
the vital importance of the primal period. This
is essential reading on the health of our children
and the health of society as a whole.
Kristina Turner looks closely at the physical processes that occur in the body during pregnancy
and childbirth and explains factors behind hospital procedures and the options for home birth,
providing readers with the knowledge needed
to make informed choices. She sees birthing as
a unified process—beginning with pregnancy,
through labor, and the months of breastfeeding—all of which contribute to developing the
bond between mother and child, as well as the
child’s emotional health.
Both practical and inspiring, Natural Birth
guides new mothers toward conscious participation in the spiritual process of bringing new life
into this world.
Kristina Turner has three children and works passionately to help women have a positive experience
of pregnancy, childbirth and nurturing a child.
What Babies and
Children Really Need
Sally Goddard Blythe
Hawthorn Press, Early Years Series $30.00
224 pages
This book represents a milestone in the understanding of child development and what parents
can do to give their children the best start in life.
The author uses the latest scientific research to
demonstrate how a baby’s relationship with the
mother has a lasting and fundamental impact.
She emphasizes ways that changes in society
over the past fifty years interfere with important
developmental milestones that are essential to
success and well-being in later life.
Sally Goddard Blythe is director of The Institute for
Neuro-Physiological Psychology, which researches
the effects of neurological dysfunction in specific
learning difficulties and devises effective remedial
programs. She is the author of numerous professional papers and articles.
Awakening to Child Health
Nurturing Children’s Well Being
Raoul Goldberg, M.D.
Awakening to Child Health is a resource for developing a sensitive understanding of children
for childcare professionals and parents who
wish to follow their own intuition and sensibility for children’s health.
Drawing on Rudolf Steiner’s understanding of
child development, health, and holistic medicine,
the author gives a comprehensive account of
child and adolescent development, informed by
embryology and spiritual psychology.
Dr. Raoul Goldberg trained as a medical doctor and
runs the Syringa Health Centre, a holistic clinic offering general practice and a range of complementary
therapies. He has worked as a Waldorf school doctor
for many years and runs a pediatric clinic.
Stress-Free Parenting
in 12 Steps
Healing for Body, Soul
and Spirit
Christiane Kutik
An Introduction to Anthroposophical
Medicine
Michael Evans and Iain Rodger
$15.95 96 pages
When a child is born, parents feel on top of the
world, but stress and exhaustion frequently take
over before long. In this concise, practical book,
Christiane Kutik highlights twelve simple steps
for bringing a measure of peace, composure,
and enjoyment back to daily family life.
This book is written specifically for parents with
little time and energy. It is succinct and simple
to implement, offering a valuable step-by-step
guide to quickly improve family life.
Christiane Kutik is a director at the IPSUM Institute in Munich, which trains parental advisers
in early-years childcare. She lectures and leads
seminars on the practical issues of daily childcare
and family life.
$16.95 192 pages
Using Rudolf Steiner’s principles and related
treatments and therapies, anthroposophic doctors often attend to cases which conventional
medicine has failed to cure. By responding to
the wider picture of the patient, in terms of
lifestyle, temperament and sociability, they
can reestablish a healthy balance while greatly
reducing the use of conventional drugs.
Dr Michael Evans trained in medicine in Britain,
Germany and Switzerland before helping to found
Park Attwood Clinic near Birmingham. He is now a
GP in Gloucestershire.
Iain Rodger works as a BBC producer and freelance
writer.
A Guide to Child Health
A Holistic Approach to Raising Healthy Children
Fourth edition
Michaela Glöckler and Wolfgang Goebel
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger
ISBN: 9780863159671 Paperback Floris Books $40.00 480 pages 96 color photographs
This acclaimed guide to children’s physical, psychological and spiritual development is now available in a
fourth revised edition. Combining up-to-date medical advice with issues of development and education, this
is a definitive guide for parents.
This is the book for anyone who has ever wanted a deeper understanding of their children’s illnesses, or sought
a more holistic approach to children's health. As well as comprehensively covering medical issues, it also
discusses parenting techniques, education, spirituality and play—a truly integrated approach to all aspects of
raising healthy children in the broadest sense.
The authors have over 20 years’ experience treating children at Herdecke Hospital, Germany, which is run using anthroposophical principles.
This new edition includes updates on treatments for tonsilitis, croup, sunstroke and headlice. The section on vaccinations includes the latest
recommendations including measles, meningococcal and HPV. There is also a new section on electromagnetic pollution, including cell phones.
Michaela Glöckler is head of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, and author of many books on child health and development.
Wolfgang Goebel trained at the university pediatric clinic in Tübingen and at the Ita Wegman hospital in Arlesheim, Switzerland. He co-founded the pediatric
department at the community hospital in Herdecke.
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Vaccination
Home Nursing for Carers
The Vaccination Dilemma
A Guide for Making Personal Choices
Hans-Peter Studer
Edited by Geoffrey Douch
Tineke van Bentheim
Christine Murphy
$19.95 160 pages
Home Nursing for Carers is a comprehensive
guide for holistic home care, especially for those
who are nursing children and adults through
an illness.
Christine Murphy has compiled a book that
presents the vaccination dilemma from multiple
perspectives. It clearly describes the immune
system and its workings—and what science does
and does not know about them. It offers suggestions and resources for parents whose children
are sick, whether from a common childhood
illness or from a vaccination reaction. This book
informs parents and prepares them to make,
in consultation with health professionals, educated vaccination decisions for their children.
$13.95 96 pages second edition
While many parents are happy to follow official
recommendations about vaccination, others
avoid any vaccination for their children.
This guide will help parents come to their own
informed decision based on clear information.
It explains the different danger levels of various
diseases, which are sometimes related to age. It
also informs readers about the way different
vaccinations work, and explores their benefits
as well as potential risks.
Dr. Hans-Peter Studer is the editor of Bisch Zwäg, a
health magazine in Switzerland.
Dr. Geoffrey Douch is a general practitioner specializing in anthroposophical medicine.
This book covers all aspects of general home
nursing, including the arrangement of the
patient’s room, meals, taking a temperature,
and washing the patient. It also details numerous holistic treatments, including herbal and
plant remedies, baths, foot baths, salt water
washes, curd cheese treatments, compresses,
and poultices.
Also included are sections specifically on pregnancy, birth, sleep, nursing the critically and
terminally ill, and caring for the dead.
Tineke van Bentheim has worked for many years
as an anthroposophical nurse in the Netherlands.
The Fourfold Path to Healing
Working with the Laws of Nutrition, Therapeutics,
Movement, and Meditation in the Art of Medicine
Thomas S. Cowan, M.D.
with Sally Fallon and Jaimen McMillan
ISBN: 9780967089799 Paperback NewTrends Publishing
$25.00 448 pages short 20% discount to booksellers
“… combines the best of Eastern and Western
esoteric wisdom in the healing arts with the
best of modern findings in Western medicine....”
—Duncan M. Roads, editor, Nexus magazine
This book provides a practical, holisitic approach to healing that includes: nutrition
using nutrient-dense traditional foods;
therapeutics through a wide range of
nontoxic remedies; movement to heal and
strengthen the emotions; and meditation to
develop one’s powers of objective thought.
It contains thorough discussions of infectious diseases, cancer, heart disease, diabetes,
digestive disorders, chronic fatigue, women’s
and men’s diseases, depression, arthritis,
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back pain, and
more, with cooking instructions, nutritional therapies,
movement and meditation exercises, and a
comprehensive list of resources.
Dr. Tom Cowan served as vice president of the
Physicians Association for Anthroposophical
Medicine and is a founding board member of
the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Sally Fallon is founding president of the Weston
A. Price Foundation. She leads seminars on traditional diets worldwide.
Jaimen McMillan is a certified Registered Somatic
Movement Therapist (RSMT) and a world-class
fencer. He developed the discipline of Spacial Dynamics in 1985 and directs trainings worldwide.
Healthy Medicine
A Guide to the Emergence of
Sensible, Comprehensive Care
Robert Zieve, M.D.; Forewords by
Dietrich Klinghardt, M.D., Ph.D.,
and James Oschman, Ph.D.
Dr. Zieve presents a new paradigm for health care
that shows us how to go beyond the limitations
and severe deficiencies of our current sickness care
system. It embraces and synthesizes the emerging
models of integrative medicine, energy medicine,
and energy psychology into an effective and affordable approach to healing for everyone.
Iscador
Mistletoe and Cancer Therapy
Edited by Christine Murphy
Christine Murphy gathers together the work
of doctors and clinicians who have been using
Iscador today. Dr. Richard Wagner, a German
physician, answers questions about Iscador
asked him by his patients during his many years
of practice as an oncologist in general practice,
treating cancer patients with both conventional
and alternative therapies. Dr. Thomas Schuerholz, a medical doctor specializing in cancer,
offers an overview of the terms, procedures,
and different approaches to cancer.
Early Childhood
Kindergarten Education
The Well Balanced Child
Free to Learn
Freeing Children’s Creative Potential
Betty Peck
Movement and Early Learning
Press, Early Years Series $27.00 224 pages
Introducing Steiner Waldorf
Early Childhood Education
Lynn Oldfield
“This is an astonishing, impressive and magnificent work. ... this is must reading for every parent, would-be parent and teacher world-wide.”
—Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of Magical Child
The Well Balanced Child is a passionate manifesto
for a “whole body” approach to learning that integrates the brain, the senses, movement and play.
Educator Betty Peck celebrates the power of
Kindergarten to help children find their creativity and imagination, opening the door to a
passionate relationship with learning.
This is an essential resource for teachers and
parents who want to give their children a more
meaningful education.
Ready to Learn
From Birth to School Readiness
Martyn Rawson and Michael Rose
A guide for understanding how a young child
learns to play, speak, think, and relate; how
language and the senses develop; when a child
is ready to learn to read; the difference between
the ways boys and girls learn; and simple tests
for school readiness. Both authors are consultants in teacher training in England and
have written numerous articles and books on
Waldorf education.
The Genius of Play
Celebrating the Spirit of Childhood
Sally Jenkinson
What do children express through
play? How does play help develop
imagination, empathy, and social
skills? Why do children need adults
who encourage play? The author
discusses the nature and secrets of
play, its importance, and why it is
threatened today.
Sally Goddard Blythe thoroughly explains why
movement is so important for the healthy development of babies and young children. She
describes movement, balance, reflexes, learning,
and behavior in early educaiton; the role of
nutrition and how music affects brain development. The book includes songs, games, and
activities that encourage learning at key stages
of development.This is a valuable resource for
assessing children with learning difficulties
and for dealing with learning and behavioral
problems through movement.
Sally Goddard Blythe is also the author of The Genius
of Natural Childhood. (see p. 62)
the Breathing Circle
Learning through the Movement
of the Natural Breath
Nell Smyth
The Breathing Circle brings practical new ways
to understand how responsiveness, expression,
and learning all depend on the rhythm of inhalation and exhalation, which carries children
into the world and back into themselves.
second edition
The author draws on kindergarten experiences
from around the world, with stories, helpful insights, lively observations and pictures. Includes
a 16-page color section.
Work and Play
in Early Childhood
Freya Jaffke
$15.95 80 pages
Jaffke applies the principles of rhythm and repetition to festivals, play, stages of development,
environment, and temperament.
Freya Jaffke was a Waldorf School kindergarten
teacher in Germany. She lectures widely on early
childhood education. Her popular craft books includeToymaking with Children and Magic Wool.
Helping Children
to Overcome Fear
The Healing Power of Play
Russell Evans
It offers movements, verses, and stories for
children, working directly with their unfolding senses and the cycle of natural
breath. These techniques can be used
with children, from toddlers through
seven years.
The insights of Jean Evans have become core
principles for preschools, play therapy, childcare, and pediatrics. These include child development through play and imitation; captivating
children’s interest; encouragement as a basis for
healing; guidelines for helping children feel safe and
happy; and helping dying
children and caring parents.
Here is an essential handbook for early
years educators, preschooler parents,
and caregivers, as well as storytellers,
drama teachers, breathwork teachers
and practitioners, and those involved
in the many other somatic disciplines.
Full of useful examples to
remind us that these principles are relevant not only
to the critically ill but can be
used to support all children,
everywhere.
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Early Childhood
Children’s Creative Play
Understanding Children’s
Drawings
How Simple Dolls and Toys
Help Your Child Develop
Tracing the Path of Incarnation
Michaela Strauss
revised and updated New edition
Previously published as The Doll Book
Karin Neuschütz
$14.95 112 pages B&W illustrations
This concise, readable book discusses how
children naturally play creatively and freely, and
how they are affected by their environment and
by the adults near them. The author explores
each developmental stage up to age seven and
then suggests suitable toys, dolls, and nurturing
activities for each particular stage.
Karin Neuschütz, a native of Sweden, studied psychology, education, and sociology. She has written
several instruction books for making dolls and toys.
Too Much, Too Soon?
Early Learning and the
Erosion of Childhood
Edited by Richard House, Ph.D.
Too Much, Too Soon? tackles the burning question of how to reverse the erosion of childhood
by nurturing young children’s well-being and
learning capacity. Children’s lives have been
speeded up by commercialization, adultification, and misguided government programs
such as No Child Left Behind and the “nappy
curriculum”—a controversial program in the
Britain that requires children to hit a series of
sixty-nine targets by age five—aspects of which
“schoolify” early learners and push quasi-formal
learning too soon.
In this compelling book, leading educators,
researchers, policy-makers, and parents advocate for alternative ways for slowing childhood,
better policy-making, and, most important, the
right learning at the right time in children’s
growth, when they are developmentally ready.
Richard House, Ph.D. lectures at the Research
Centre for Therapeutic Education, University of
Roehampton. He is a Waldorf kindergarten educator
and founder-member of the Open EYE campaign.
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Full color
The early artistic expressions of children contain important statements about their development. From the first scratches and scribbles
to the detailed sketches of houses and people,
children’s drawings are significant manifestations of inner processes—indications of the
gradual incarnation into a physical body.
Michaela Strauss’s classic book is a pioneer
work that can strengthen observation, understanding, and love for the being of the child,
both in the parental home and in the kindergarten. First issued in 1978, this revised edition has
improved reproductions and a larger format.
Michaela Strauss continued the work of her father,
Hanns Strauss (1883–1946), a painter and art teacher
who collected thousands of children’s drawings and
compared and evaluated them. Stimulated by Rudolf
Steiner’s lecture course Study of Man (The Foundations of Human Experience), this research became
Hanns’ life-consuming interest.
Under the Stars
The Foundations of Steiner Waldorf
Early Childhood Education
Dr. Renate Long-Breipohl
Under the Stars is a profound and practical anthology on the principles and methods of Waldorf early childhood education for early-years
educators to deepen their insights into Steiner’s
inspiring, holistic understanding of children.
The author presents thought-provoking insights and principles from lifelong work in
kindergarten education. His ideas will free educators to transform their ways of observing children, their practice, and their self-development.
Dr. Renate Long-Breipohl taught kindergarten for
many years and now advises and lectures around
the world in early childhood education.
Heaven on Earth
Best
Seller
A Handbook for
!
Parents of Young Children
Sharifa Oppenheimer
Photography by Stephanie Gross
$25.00 256 pages
The atmosphere in the home creates the foundation of a child’s life. In this book, parent and
educator Sharifa Oppenheimer reveals how
to make the home environment warm, lively,
loving, and consistent with your highest ideals.
Heaven on Earth balances theoretical understanding of child development with practical
ideas, resources, and tips that can transform
family life. Readers will learn how to establish
the life rhythms that lay the foundation for all
learning; how to design indoor play environments; and how to create backyard play spaces.
Through art, storytelling, and the festival
celebrations, this book is a guide to building a
“family culture” that supports children and allows the free development of each unique soul.
Sharifa Oppenheimer was the founding teacher of
the Charlottesville Waldorf School, Virginia, where
she taught kindergarten for twenty-one years and
served as day care director of the early-childhood
program. She has helped develop new teachers
through teacher training programs and has initiated
a home-based kindergarten program.
How Like an Angel
Came I Down
Conversations with Children
on the Gospels
Amos Bronson Alcott; Introduced
and Edited by Alice O. Howell
Bronson Alcott, friend and sometimes mentor to Emerson and Thoreau in Concord, was
a visionary educator who believed that the
psyche of a child carries within it the imprint
of spirit and wisdom. At his school in Boston
in the 1830s, he held this extraordinary series
of conversations on such themes as spirit,
consciousness, conscience, love, and humility.
Peter Selg
The Essence of
Waldorf Education
ISBN: 9780880106467 paperback steinerbooks
$12.00 128 pages
“The Waldorf School is not committed to the state
and the economy, but to the becoming human being who is open to and related to the future. If this
school is successful, then wherever it is realized and
succeeds, it can become a blessing for the individuals involved and for the times in which they live.”
Peter Selg’s book on the essence of Waldorf Education—its spiritual foundation and its objectives—places Waldorf schools
at the center of the most pressing educational issues of today. A youth
psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Dr. Selg points directly to the challenges
that the schools, parents, and teachers are facing, as well as to the possibilities for their resolution. He asks the fundamental pedagogical question:
Toward what do we educate and what do we develop? Education, he says,
is “the preparation for the future, the preparation of children who bring
with them something specific, a future will impulse, a will that we need to
support and attend to so that it can find its way, now and in the future.”
This slim but vibrant and densely packed volume will introduce, inform,
and inspire—or re-inspire—parents and teachers about why Waldorf
schools began, what they stand for, and how they can carry their original
ideals and principles creatively and courageously into the future.
A Grand Metamorphosis
Contributions to the
Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology
and Education of Adolescents
ISBN: 9780880105989 paperback steinerbooks
$15.00 128 pages
During the first two seven-year periods of life,
our soul-spiritual being gradually incarnates.
Then, with puberty, it takes hold of our whole
being and turns outward to befriend the Earth
and the forces of life-and-death. Rudolf Steiner calls this profound inner
transformation “a grand metamorphosis.”
As a psychiatrist who has worked intensively with adolescents in crisis
and carries a deep knowledge regarding Steiner’s teachings, Dr. Selg is
able to highlight the radical nature of Steiner’s approach to educating
adolescents, which provides a timeless method of meeting students in the
right way. Through the detailed spiritual-scientific indications in this book
and Dr. Selg’s copious notes, parents and teachers can be well equipped
to approach the challenge of adolescence with deepened understanding.
The Therapeutic Eye
How Rudolf Steiner
Observed Children
$15.00 96 pages
Rudolf Steiner’s extraordinary ability to perceive
the inner nature and development of children
provided insights at many levels and areas of the
creative learning process.
In this book, Dr. Peter Selg discusses Steiner’s
views on childhood development, how teachers can observe children, and
ways that these approaches can be used to develop lessons and classroom
activities to deal with behavioral extremes and learning challenges.
Education and Child Development
Peter Selg was born in 1963 in Stuttgart and studied
medicine in Witten-Herdecke, Zurich, and Berlin.
Until 2000, he worked as the head physician of the
juvenile psychiatry department of Herdecke Hospital
in Germany. Dr. Selg is now director of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthroposophy
(Arlesheim, Switzerland) and professor of medicine
at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Germany). He
lectures extensively and is the author of numerous books, including The
Fundamental Social Law; The Child With Special Needs; The Agriculture
Course; Seeing Christ in Sickness and Healing; The Culture of Selflessness;
and Rudolf Steiner as a Spiritual Teacher. He is married, with five children.
I Am Different from You
How Children Experience
Themselves and the World
in the Middle of Childhood
$12.00 120 pages
In many of his lectures to teachers on education,
Rudolf Steiner called attention to a significant
change in the way children experience themselves
and the world that occurs in the middle of childhood, in the ninth or tenth year. In this deep and concise book, Peter Selg
illuminates this dramatic change in the child’s consciousness. Through
Rudolf Steiner’s profound wisdom of children’s inner essence, adults can
learn to give them the experience of being carried by a strong and sure
relationship: When children cross the Rubicon between the ninth and
tenth year without that feeling, something will be lacking in their later
life, and they will have to struggle to attain what they should have received
naturally at that moment in childhood.
I Am Different from You is a vital book for all parents and teachers to
read�well before the crisis in the middle of childhood.
Unbornness
Human Pre-existence and
the Journey Toward Birth
$15.00 88 pages
As anyone who has had a child knows, newborns
enter the earthly world with their own individuality, being, and history. From the beginning, they
manifest an essential dignity and a unique “I,”
which they clearly brought with them from the
spiritual world. This unborn life of a person’s higher individuality guides
the whole process of incarnation. Unbornness—the other side of eternity—allows us to experience the fact that birth is just as great a mystery
as is death. In a new and striking way, unbornness poses the mystery of
our human task on Earth.
It was one of Rudolf Steiner’s great gifts that he returned the concept of
unbornness to human consciousness and language. In this brief, stunning,
and moving, almost poetic work, Peter Selg gathers the key elements and
images needed to begin an understanding of—and wonder at—the vast
scope of our unbornness. Drawing on and expanding on Steiner’s work,
as well as Raphael’s Sistine Madonna and the poems of Nelly Sachs and
Rainer Maria Rilke, Selg unveils this deepest mystery of human existence.
After reading it, one will never look at a child or another human being
in the same way again.
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Phases of Childhood
The Developing Child
Star Children
Growing in Body, Soul and Spirit
Bernard Lievegoed
Sense and Nonsense in Education
Willi Aeppli
$19.95 208 pages
Anthroposophic Press $16.95 224 pages
Understanding Children Who Set Us
Special Tasks and Challenges
Georg Kühlewind
Drawing on the educational ideas and philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, Goethe, and Schiller, the
author describes the three main stages of child
development and the genetic and biographical
potential revealed at each stage. He goes on
to explore the practical application of these
insights as an educational method in harmony
with the child’s developing relationship with
the surrounding world.
Previously published as: Rudolf Steiner Education and the Developing Child
This is an essential, classic resource for all parents, teachers, and caregivers.
Your Reincarnating Child
Welcoming a Soul to the World
Gilbert Childs and Sylvia Childs
“One of the main purposes of this book,” write
the authors, “is to demonstrate that human beings are primarily of spiritual nature, and only
secondarily of bodily nature.” They explain how
these two natures complement each other in the
processes of maturation and development, from
the period before birth and incarnation into
maturity. With a firm philosophical grounding,
the authors discuss key questions connected
with clothing, food, play, work, technology,
and discipline.
Set Free Childhood
Parents’ Survival Guide for Coping
with Computers and TV
Martin Large
This book presents striking scientific research
on how the TV “tunes out” the brain; why doctors and educators say later is better for electronic media use; and strategies for preventing
electronic addiction.
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This experienced Waldorf teacher allows us
to enter his classroom and gain insights that
serve as valuable guides for both parents and
educators. Aeppli also presents a challenge to
teachers: penetrate the subject, grasp its essence, transform it artistically, and present it
to the children in a way that fits their evolving
inner orientation. This fresh approach is not
just another theory about good education.
Aeppli writes out of practical experience with
the intention of sending young adults into the
world who can stand on their own two feet
and accept responsibility for their own actions.
ISBN: 9781902636498 Paperback Temple Lodge
$25.00 160 pages
Who are the star children? Recently, much has
been written about “gifted” children with special abilities, sometimes called indigo or crystal
children. It is said that they are coming to earth
to help humanity develop. Based on extensive
research, Kühlewind asserts that this is one of
the most important events of our time.
Star Children is a compelling addition to the
literature on “special children,” offering a
unique perspective based on spiritual science
and research.
Children and Their
Temperaments
Marieke Anschutz
$15.95 128 pages 2nd edition
“This book is our personal favorite for learning
more about temperaments.”
—www.waldorfhomeschoolers.com
Drawing on an ancient tradition, Rudolf Steiner
spoke of four fundamental types, or temperaments, belonging to the human personality,
each of which has a different personal need
and means of relating socially. Through her
experience of working with children, the author,
Marieke Anschütz provides a guide to children’s
temperaments and their role in the development of character, health, and personality.
The book includes illustrations from home and
school, in the context of Waldorf classrooms.
The author discusses how these ideas may
be used to manage, and relate to, groups and
individuals.
This is a valuable tool for teachers, parents, and
care providers, especially when dealing with
“problem” children.
Raising Waldorf
The Building of the Waldorf School
on the Roaring Fork
ISBN: 9780978973506 PAPERBACK WALDORF
BOOK PROJECT $40.00 224 PAGES FULL COLOR
PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT limited stock
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Raising Waldorf is a beautifully produced,
heartfully written book that tells the story of
the birth and building of a Waldorf school. This
thriving Waldorf school began fifteen years ago
as a small initiative by a small group of parents
in a small town on the upper reaches of the
Roaring Fork River watershed in the Rocky
Mountains of western Colorado. The biography
of the Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork is
the sum of many stories that have become one.
It is a tale told in many different voices not just
about the building of buildings, but the building of community and committment.
The Incarnating Child
Transformational
Teaching
Holistic Parenting and
Child Health Series
Joan Salter
Waldorf-Inspired Methods
in the Public School
Mary Goral
$22.00 168 pages
We have the power to transform our public
schools—not through government mandates
or the newest “teacher-proof ” text series, and
not through what many educators call “best
practices.” Our schools can be transformed
by applying Waldorf-inspired practices into
the public-school setting. This little-known,
but well established form of education can be
an invaluable source of ideas and strategies to
teachers, administrators, and teacher educators.
Rudolf Steiner had a special interest in the education of children and saw schooling as a way
to achieve social renewal. He initiated Waldorf
schools to counteract certain trends of his time,
which continue to move toward an increasingly mechanistic, analytical, and intellectual
educational environment. Waldorf students
do not learn in a fragmentary ways, nor is the
curriculum prepackaged. Their education is
centered in creativity and social values, forming
a solid foundation for learning the skills needed
to integrate into the society and the workplace.
Mary Goral explores ways that these principles
can be applied in public schools to educate
children for life rather than simply to meet the
demands of rigid, one-size-fits-all programs
such as “No Child Left Behind.” Using the
concrete example of public-school teachers who
have agreed to go on such a journey, Dr. Goral
shows how teachers can bring many of the
benefits of Waldorf education into the public
setting, with remarkable results.
Transformational Teaching is inspirational
reading for those who wish to transform their
local schools.
Mary Barr Goral, Ph.D., has taught in higher education for eleven years and is currently an Associate
Professor in the School of Education at Bellarmine
University in Louisville, Kentucky, where she teaches
math and science methods courses to elementary
education majors and directs the master’s program
with an emphasis in Waldorf Education.
Even in today’s modern technological world, the
miracle of birth stirs within many people a sense
of wonder. This book is full of practical advice
for anyone concerned with childcare. Joan Salter
addresses physical and spiritual development,
environment, immunization and health, and
the acquisition of skills and thinking ability.
The First Three Years
of the Child
Walking, Speaking, Thinking
Karl König
ISBN: 9780863154522 Paperback Floris Books,
Classics of Anthroposophy $17.95 138 pages
This classic text by Karl König, founder of the
Camphill Movement, an international movement of therapeutic intentional communities,
is a must-read for every new parent and earlychildhood teacher.
Dr. König examines the first three years of the
life of the child in relation to the three major
achievements of that time: learning to walk,
learning to speak, and learning to think. These
are what make us human, and their acquisition,
he proposes, is “an act of grace” in every child.
He goes on to provide a detailed analysis of this
extraordinarily complex process.
The Story of
Waldorf Education
in the United States
Past, Present, and Future
Stephen Keith Sagarin, Ph.D.
Representing more than a decade of research,
this book is the first account of the history and
development of Waldorf education in America.
Looking at the past and present with an eye to how
the understanding of the term Waldorf education
has changed over time, the author identifies key
trends in education to imagine the direction in
which Waldorf education may move in the future.
As Waldorf education comes increasingly into
public view and into public schools, primarily
through charter schools, questions about what
Waldorf education is (and is not) are becoming
increasingly relevant. The author concludes
that Waldorf education is not a method that
can be packaged and sold, but a living method
that depends on insight for continual renewal.
Stephen Keith Sagarin, Ph.D., a Waldorf graduate, is a
teacher at the Great Barrington Waldorf High School.
He writes, lectures, mentors teachers, and consults
with Waldorf schools and is an associate professor
and former director of the M.S. education program
at Sunbridge Institute in Chestnut Ridge, New York.
Education: An
Introductory
Reader
Rudolf Steiner
Edited by
Christopher
Clouder
Renewing Education
Writings on Steiner Education
Francis Edmunds
The name of Francis Edmunds will always be
a part of the Waldorf School movement. He
traveled widely, and his talks and writings,
emphasizing the responsibility of adults and
educators toward children, have inspired and
educated a worldwide audience. This collection of essays covers many different aspects of
a Waldorf school and will be invaluable to all
concerned with the spiritual basis of an individual’s development from childhood onward.
ISBN: 9781855841185
Paperback Rudolf Steiner Press, Pocket
Library of Spiritual Wisdom Series
$17.95 224 pages
Some topics in this book include: a social basis
for education; the spirit of the Waldorf school;
educational methods based on anthroposophy;
children at play; adolescents after the fourteenth year; science, art, religion, and morality;
the roots of education and the kingdom of
childhood; and education within the broader
social context.
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Painting and Drawing
in Waldorf Schools
Words in Place
Classes 1 to 8
Thomas Wildgruber
Painting and drawing are key artistic expressions and play important roles in children’s
physical, emotional, and spiritual development.
This guide provides a complete artistic curriculum for Waldorf school classes 1 to 8 (ages 6 to
14). At each stage, the book shows the skills that
teachers can help children to develop. Included
are 280 practical exercises for teachers, and over
800 children’s drawings and paintings that serve
as inspiring examples of artistic possibilities.
Reconnecting with Nature through
Creative Writing
Paul Matthews
Drawings by Margaret Shillan
This nine-week writing course follows a path
through the realms of nature, from minerals
to plants, animals, and people. By exploring
the qualities of each, it encourages the writer
to find a unique, authentic voice and forge a
new relationship to the inner and outer worlds.
Paul Matthews offers a rich variety of creative
techniques and exercises, including “haiku
hikes,” word and story games, written conversation, collaborative writing, and “tiny tales.”
The Spirit of the
English Language
How Sound Works in English and
American Poetry—A Practical Guide
for Poets, Teachers and Students
John H. Wulsin, Jr.
In this book, we discover how the sounds of
English have changed the ways in which poets
think and express themselves, and more importantly, how sound works and changes our human consciousness. The author discusses how
in teaching poetics, stages of the developing
English language quicken corresponding stages
of thinking in maturing adolescents.
Paul Matthews is a poet and creative writing teacher.
John Wulsin teaches English and Drama at Green
Meadow Waldorf School in Chestnut Ridge, NY.
Music through the Grades
The Power of Stories
Storytelling for Life
In the Light of the Developing Child
Diane Ingraham Barnes
Nurturing Children’s Imagination
and Consciousness
Horst Kornberger
Why Stories Matter and Ways
of Telling Them
Josie Felce
$20.00 208 pages
$26.95 144 pages
Stories can have great healing and educative
power. The author explores the power of particular stories such as Odysseus, Parsifal, Oedipus,
Bible stories, and fairy tales. He explains how to
apply that power to help a child develop or to
heal and transform a child having difficulties.
Josie Felce discusses the use of stories in the
Waldorf school curriculum and the therapeutic
value of stories throughout our lives. She gives
practical advice for telling stories, including
body language, presentation skills, and adapting stories for your listeners. She also suggests
stories for different age groups and situations.
Thomas Wildgruber was born in Germany in 1946.
He has been a Waldorf class teacher since 1979.
ISBN 9780932776433 spiral bound Adonis
Press $30.00 195 pages includes 3 CDs
This book is for Waldorf music and class teachers who are searching for age-appropriate songs
and guidelines for developing a music curriculum based on insight into child development.
Included are: 213 songs for grades one through
eight with suggested activities and notes for
teachers; 3 CDs with songs for first, second and
third grades for teachers to learn by listening;
and introductions to each of the grades giving
pedagogical insights and practical suggestions.
Horst Kornberger is a creativity consultant, interdisciplinary artist, poet, writer, lecturer and researcher
into the field of imagination and creativity.
The World of Fairy Tales
Lectures by Rudolf Steiner
Drawings by Gerard Wagner
Translated and Edited by Peter Stebbing
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Josie Felce is a puppeteer and professional storyteller.
She taught in a Waldorf school for eight years.
Contents include: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales; Fairy
Tales in the Light of Spiritual Investigation; Fairy Tales in
Education; Fairy Tales and Rosicrucian Wisdom; and The
Significance of Fairy Tales in Our Time.
ISBN: 9781621480327 Paperback SteinerBooks $14.95
136 pages B&W Illustrations
Gerard Wagner (1906–1999) was born in Germany and studied at
the Royal College of Art in London. He and his wife, Elisabeth Wagner-Koch, established The Painting School at the Goetheanum.
“What is absorbed little by little by means of fairy tales
emerges subsequently as joy in life, in the meaning of life—it
comes to light in the ability to cope with life, even into old
age.” —Rudolf Steiner
Peter Stebbing earned an M.F.A. from Cornell University. He
trained and taught at The Painting School at the Goetheanum.
He has been director of the Arteum Painting School in Dornach,
Switzerland, and has held exhibitions worldwide.
Torin Finser
Initiative
Silence Is Complicity
School Renewal
A Rosicrucian Path of Leadership
A call to let teachers improve our
schools through action research—
Not NCLB (No Child Left Behind)
A Spiritual Journey for Change
$12.00 144 pages
Torin Finser takes on some of our contemporary
challenges and proposes new solutions. Drawing
on a variety of rich cultural and spiritual traditions, he makes the case for social change that
begins within. To do so, one must first access
resources that support initiative and innovation.
School As a Journey
The Eight-Year Odyssey of a
Waldorf Teacher and His Class
$16.95 256 pages
An inspiring account of one teacher’s odyssey.
Along the way, he reveals the secrets of good education in any setting: effective partnership with
parents, a strong sense of collegiality among the
staff, and—above all—the presence of dedicated
teachers who are motivated by a sincere love
and respect for their students. —Ernest Boyer,
President, Carnegie Foundation
This is a lively and absorbing account of a class
teacher’s journey with his class, from first grade
through the eighth grade in a Waldorf school.
Straightforward and humorous, School as a
Journey provides an excellent introduction to
the daily activities of a Waldorf school classroom. It was written especially for parents and
educators who are new to Waldorf education.
In Search of
Ethical Leadership
If not now, when?
$19.95 192 pages
Torin Finser considers the crisis in ethical
leadership, bringing his unique approach to
the problems we face. He takes us on a journey
of discovery by asking hard questions about
the widespread breakdown in ethics and leadership today. He helps us see the roots of this
loss of ethical leadership and a way out of the
situation by applying the spiritual principles
of Anthroposophy.
$15.00 112 pages
Society debates, legislates, and regulates education more than it does any other profession. We
allow politicians to set standards and test scores
for our children, forcing teachers to endure
countless commission reports and political debates about what should happen in our schools.
What if teachers’ voices were heard equally in
public discourse? Dr. Finser offers the tools
teachers need to speak out and be heard, empowering their advocacy for educational change.
Organizational Integrity
How to Apply the Wisdom
of the Body to Develop Healthy
Organizations
ISBN: 9780880105828 Hardcover SteinerBooks
$30.00 268 pages Color & b/w illustrations
$25.00 268 pages Color & b/w illustrations
Organizational Integrity attempts to reclaim and
reconcile organizational dynamics with living
systems. The wisdom found in human organs,
minerals, planets, and even sacred geometry is
used to reinvent organizations. Organizations
are supposed to serve, and their forms and
structures should mirror the living systems
of those who have come together with common purpose. We need to change our ideas of
organizations and establish a new paradigm so
that future organizations will be worthy of the
people in them. Here is a truly unique approach
to bringing people together in healthy, effective
organizations to better the world we live in.
“I want to rush out and buy a copy of this book for
every teacher and parent I know.” — Eric Utne
“Splendid ... not just teachers, but parents, students, and just plain stressed-out citizens would
benefit from the wisdom, information, and insight
Finser offers.” —Joseph Chilton Pearce
A school involves much more than education;
it is also a community—one that may or may
not be healthy. Dr. Finser addresses many of the
problems and challenges that school communities face, using fairy tales, myths, and personal
experience. He describes how teachers and parents can come to grips with problems of burnout, conflicts, and routine. Most important, he
stresses that an educational community must
address the unseen dimensions of individuals.
Renovación Escolar
Un Viaje Espiritual Hacia el Cambio
Spanish translation of School Renewal
Traducción en Español de School Renewal
Translated by José Raúl Gálvez Castro
ISBN: 9781621480556 Paperback steinerbooks
$20.00 200 pages
Renovación Escolar aborda los problemas y
desafíos de una comunidad escolar. Mediante
el empleo de cuentos, mitos y la experiencia
personal de la educación Waldorf, Torin Finser
describe la forma en la que tanto maestros como
padres afrontan problemas cotidianos como el
agotamiento, los conflictos interpersonales y las
trampas de la rutina. Lo más importante es que
el autor hace hincapié en que una comunidad
educativa debe llegar a un acuerdo con las numerosas dimensiones ocultas de cada individuo.
Torin M. Finser, Ph.D., is Director of the Waldorf Teacher Education Program
at Antioch University New England and founding member of the Center for Anthroposophy, Collaborative Leadership Training, and Templar Associates in New
Hampshire. He is co-chairperson of the Anthroposophical Society in North America.
He has been an educator for three decades, a keynote speaker at conferences, and is
a consultant for many public and Waldorf schools in areas of facilitating change,
designing mentoring and evaluation programs, and leadership development.
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Well, I Wonder
The Genius of
Natural Childhood
Childhood in the Modern World:
A Handbook for Parents, Teachers
and Carers
Sally Schweizer
ISBN: 9781855841246 Paperback Rudolf
Steiner Press $27.00 232 pages Illustrated
Sally Schweizer calls for a reevaluation of
childhood and an awakening to the real needs
of children. As an educator and mother, she is
qualified to ask the hard questions and offer
real solutions.
The author guides us through the stages of
childhood development, explaining children’s
need for daily rhythm, movement, and play.
She emphasizes the importance of guarding
children’s imagination and the significance
of festivals and celebrations. She offers helpful tips and wise advice throughout this
well-illustrated book, which also features an
eight-page color section on the evolution of
children’s drawings.
Sally Schweizer is a state-trained teacher. She has
taught children mostly under seven, and has trained
teachers and been an adviser.
Teaching as
a Lively Art
Marjorie Spock
ISBN: 9780880101271
Paperback
Anthroposophic
Press $15.95
140 pages
The author, an experienced Waldorf teacher,
shows us that “ripeness
is all,” that nothing can be taught to a child until
the child is ready to receive it or knowledge will
sprout prematurely and wither early.
Marjorie Spock (1905-2008) met Rudolf Steiner in
Dornach, Switzerland, in 1923, and trained there to
become a eurythmist. She earned an M.A. in Education, writing her thesis on Waldorf education. She
taught in Waldorf and private schools, and established two bio-dynamic farms. She has written and
and translated numerous books.
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Encountering the Self
Secrets of Thriving Children
Transformation and Destiny
in the Ninth Year
Hermann Koepke
Fifty-two percent of parents admit they never
read to their child. Toddlers watch 4½ hours
of television daily. More children are obese,
enter school developmentally delayed and need
special education.
It is between the ages of nine and ten that children begin to experience themselves as separate
individuals. In this insightful book, the author
offers an accessible description of the outer
signs and symptoms of this significant turning
point in every child’s life.
The author draws on neuroscience to unpack
the wisdom of nursery rhymes, traditional
games and fairy stories for healthy child development. She explains why movement matters
and how games develop children’s skills at different stages of development. She offers a starter
kit of stories, action games, songs and rhymes.
Sally Goddard Blythe is director of The Institute for
Neuro-Physiological Psychology, which researches
the effects of neurological dysfunction in specific
learning difficulties, and devises effective remedial
programs. She is also the author of The Well Balanced
Child and Reflexes Learning and Behaviour.
Nurturing Potential
in the Kindergarten Years
Steiner Education
in Theory and Practice
Available Again
Gilbert J. Childs
$29.50 288 pages
Gilbert Childs examines and explains the curriculum of Steiner-Waldorf schools, showing
how their unique teaching practices take a
holistic view of the child. He looks particularly
at issues such as creativity, imagination, and
intellect, and how the schools try to produce
rounded, responsible young adults.
A Guide for Teachers, Carers,
and Parents
Cornelis Boogerd
Gilbert J. Childs (1923-2013) taught at Steiner schools
in Germany and England. He later qualified as a
teacher in the state system and lectured in English. In
his retirement he was an avid biodynamic gardener.
$29.95 256 pages
Living Literacy
The kindergarten years are some of the most
formative in their development. At the heart
of early years Waldorf education is the concept
of “life forces,” or the “etheric body.” To help
children grow into healthy adults who can fulfill
their potential, these forces must be recognized
and nurtured properly. This book offers accessible ways to understand and visualize the
concept of life forces and provides practical
examples of how to nurture children at different
educational stages.
Cornelis Boogerd studied social sciences at Driebergen. He has helped establish Waldorf schools and
teacher training in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
The Human Foundations of
Speaking, Writing, and Reading
Michael Rose
Press, Education Series $27.00 192 pages
Michael Rose makes the case that the life and
nature of language are breaking down under the
pressures of modern society. He explores how
teachers and parents can prepare for the transition to literacy through conversation, story,
song, and play, followed by relevant and living
ways to introduce reading and writing formally.
Michael Rose is a founding teacher at the York Steiner
School. He coauthored Ready to Learn (2002).
What Is Waldorf Education?
Educating through Art
Three Lectures
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Stephen Sagarin
The Steiner School Approach
Agnes Nobel
$12.00 128 pages
In this reader-friendly Waldorf “taster,” Rudolf
Steiner presents the fundamentals of Waldorf
education in a matter-of-fact, objective, nondogmatic way. Included is a thought-provoking,
informative introduction by a Waldorf teacher
and longtime student of Steiner’s pedagogy.
Waldorf Education
Christopher Clouder
and Martyn Rawson
$14.95 160 pages Illustrated
This concise and accessible book explains
Waldorf ’s innovative approaches to child development and education. The authors discuss
the practical aspects of classroom teaching, festivals, child development, early education, high
school, environmental education, and more.
Art as
Spiritual
Activity
Rudolf Steiner’s
Contribution to
the Visual Arts
Rudolf Steiner
Edited by
Michael Howard
$24.95 336 pages
This book introduces a new way for thinking
about, creating, and viewing art. Rudolf Steiner
saw his task as the renewal of the lost unity of
science, the arts, and religion; thus, he created
a new, cognitive scientific and religious art in
anthroposophy. The implications of his act—
recognized by such diverse artists as Wassily
Kandinsky and Joseph Beuys—are only now
coming fully to light.
$35.00 308 pages
Steiner Education
and Social Issues
How Waldorf Schooling Addresses
the Problems of Society
Brien Masters
Agnes Nobel examines the importance of art
in the development of the child and looks for
some answers to the vital question: What is
education for? She goes on to investigate why
Waldorf schools attach such importance to art
in education. She describes Steiner’s picture of
the developing child, his views on the imprint of
early experience in the child’s whole being and
the importance of living relationships and community in the Waldorf school. She shows how
these ideas were expressed in the curriculum
of the schools. There have been many books
written on the Steiner approach to education,
but they have usually been written from within
the Waldorf educational movement. This book
takes an independent view of Waldorf education and critically assesses its unique qualities,
successes and relevance to the modern day.
Agnes Nobel is an educational psychologist working
in Uppsala University, Sweden.
Education
towards Freedom
Rhythms of Learning
Frans Carlgren
What Waldorf Education Offers
Children, Parents and Teachers
Selected Lectures by Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner; Edited and
Introduced by Roberto Trostli
$30.00 272 pages 40 b/w illustrations
$35.00 400 pages
Roberto Trostli, an experienced Waldorf
teacher, has selected Rudolf Steiner’s key
lectures on children and education. In each
chapter, Trostli explains Steiner’s concepts and
describes how they work in the contemporary
Waldorf classroom.
This book will serve as an excellent resource
for parents who want to understand how their
child is learning. Parents will be better prepared
to discuss their child’s education with teachers,
and teachers will find it a valuable reference
source and communication tool.
Is the philosophy we use to educate our children
responsible, at least partially, for the attitudes
and general tone of our societies? According
to experts, those nations that performed best
have created “child-friendly” societies in which
young people are not pressured to achieve
academically until their teens. Yet U.S. and U.K.
educators press toward economic success, using
education as a means of generating—through
“No Child Left Behind”—the high achievers
needed, it is thought, to produce material
wealth.
Brien Masters, Ph.D., is director of the London
Waldorf Teacher Training Seminar and the seminar
in Gran Canaria, the Canary Islands.
Education Towards Freedom was first published
in 1976 and has sold more than ten thousand
copies in English. Lavishly illustrated with
drawings and photographs throughout, the
book covers all aspects of Waldorf education,
dividing it into the preschool years, the first
eight years (starting at about age seven), and the
last four years (from ages fourteen to eighteen).
Also included are sections on the rhythm of
the day, specific subjects,
the use of textbooks,
and school in the
modern world.
Fr a n s C a r l g r e n
taught at the Kristofferskolan Waldorf
school in Sweden for
many years.
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Educating Traumatized
Children
Engaged Community
The Challenge of Self-Governance
in Waldorf Education
Jon McAlice
Waldorf Education in Crisis
Intervention
Bernd Ruf
Translated by Margot M. Saar
28 b&w photographs
Since 2006, specialists, doctors, psychologists,
and therapists of Parzival-Zentrum Karlsruhe
have taken part in emergency education crisis
interventions, carried out by the organization
Friends of Waldorf Education. They work
with psychologically traumatized children and
young people in war zones and disaster areas.
Bernd Ruf, who heads these operations,
describes the basics of anthroposophically
extended “emergency education,” including
the anthroposophic understanding of trauma.
In addition, he describes processes and experiences, focusing on recent experiences in Japan
at the center of his descriptions.
Bernd Ruf was born in Germany in 1954. He cofounded the Waldorf school in Karlsruhe and also the
Parzival Kompetenzzentrum für Bildung, Förderung
und Beratung, a special needs education center based
on Waldorf education. He is the Managing Director
of Friends of Waldorf Education, where he is in
charge of International Volunteer Services.
On the Threshold
of Adolescence
The Struggle for Independence
in the Twelfth Year
Hermann Koepke
In this book, a Waldorf teacher struggles with
changes in her class. Through teachers’ meetings,
parents’ evenings, home visits, and conversations with an experienced teacher, readers learn
how parents, teachers, and friends must all accommodate the steps young people are taking.
Hermann Koepke, a Swiss Waldorf teacher with
many years of experience, is well known in Europe.
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Waldorf Kindergartens
Today
Edited by Marie-Luise Compani
and Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781584201533 Paperback Lindisfarne
$29.95 256 pages
Based on many years working in Anthroposophy and in Waldorf schools, and drawing
extensively on Rudolf Steiner’s own words, Jon
McAlice’s radical, thought-provoking book
opens the field for a new vision of the collaborative possibilities available in schools that
are established and sustained by parents and
teachers for the sake of students.
What are the principles and characteristics of
Waldorf kindergartens, and what are the challenges facing them in the twenty-first century?
Seeking to shift the conversation concerning school governance from a structural to a
dynamic approach, McAlice emphasizes learning as a multileveled process of becoming. As
he puts it, “a school is a working community
dedicated to the art of becoming”—a community in which students and teachers participate
together in the difficult task of creating a free,
self-governing ecology of learning. For this,
the adults must learn to trust one another, to
develop confidence in collegiality. Understanding the guidance of their common task, they
must find the humility and honesty to listen
without judgment and speak with authenticity. To create a context in which “children can
practice the art of self-education,” they must
themselves become examples of self-governing,
creative, responsible human beings, committed to learning and self-development through
moments of encounter in which content and
process merge in an experience of absolute
freedom, and something new becomes possible.
McAlice shows how such an ideal can become
a reality when parents, teachers and students
in a dynamic, engaged, participatory learning
community all work and learn together for the
common goal of becoming more fully human.
Jon McAlice is a freelance designer and consultant,
focusing on the creative use of time and space. A
co-founder of the Center for Contextual Studies, his
research in contemporary education has borne fruit
throughout the Waldorf educational movement in
the growing recognition of the significance of direct
experience in the learning process.
This book is a valuable overview of the current
state of early years education. It includes sections on kindergartens worldwide and the vision behind them, and the basics of child development. It then looks in detail at contemporary
practice, from daily rhythms and nutrition to
singing, eurythmy, working with parents, and
media and technology. The contributors are
experienced Waldorf teachers and educators.
Marie-Luise Compani was born in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1954. She is a Waldorf kindergarten teacher
and teaches professional development.
Peter Lang was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1939.
He was a social worker and teacher, and now lectures
in Waldorf education and directs the Stuttgart Waldorf Kindergarten seminar.
Addictive Behaviour in
Children and Young Adults
The Struggle for Freedom
Raoul Goldberg, M.D.
$24.95 272 pages
This book explores the overall health consequences of addictive behavior in children and
young people, as well as its underlying causes.
Drawing on anthroposophical insights, the author sees the child holistically as body, soul, and
spirit on a developmental journey from newborn to adult. He examines specific addictions
through case histories taken from his clinical
practice, and offers a tried and tested method
to understand and manage each individual who
succumbs to such dependencies.
Dr. Raoul Goldberg has practiced Integrative Medicine for thirty-five years in Switzerland, Germany,
and in his homeland, South Africa.
Special Care
Dyslexia
Being Human
Learning Disorder or Creative Gift?
Cornelia Jantzen
Diagnosis in Curative Education
Karl König
Foreword by Michaela Glöckler
Introduction by Cornelius Pietzner
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger
$30.00 248 pages
Increasingly, those working with dyslexia suggest it is less a disorder than a sign of a specially
gifted person. Those with dyslexia often have
above-average intelligence and are highly creative, provided they are supported and nurtured
by understanding parents and teachers. The
author gives new insights when dealing with
the challenges that dyslexia presents.
Cornelia Jantzen is a consultant on dyslexia in
Hamburg and is the mother of two dyslexic children.
The Child with Special Needs
Letters and Essays on Curative
Education
Karl König; Edited by Peter Selg
$18.95 156 pages
Human development unfolds in a twofold way,
an ever-more profound incarnation, or “inhabitation,” of the physical body, and the increasing
discrimination of the individual objects of the
world. Difficulties along this path can lead to socalled disabilities. König’s approach to curative
education allows us to see these disabilities as
meaningful ways of coping with or resolving the
problems that arise in living in a physical body.
Education for Special Needs
$25.00 224 pages
Dr. König considers and discusses the fundamentals of special needs education and shows
three core aspects of a successful holistic approach to healing: a positive social environment; insightful understanding of the nature
and potential of each disability; and medical
treatment imbued with courage to keep the
faith that the impossible can be made possible.
Karl König (1902-1966) founded the Camphill Movement in Scotland in 1939.
Previously Published As Fundamental
Principles of Curative Eurythmy
Margarete Kirchner-Bockholt
$50.00 192 pages
In 1921, Rudolf Steiner gave a series of lectures
on curative eurythmy. Over the subsequent
years, he added to the initial exercises and indications. The author published the basic principles, along with a collection of Steiner’s advice.
Dr. Margarete Kirchner-Bockholt was a medical
doctor and eurythmist. Rudolf Steiner entrusted her
with the practical development of curative eurythmy
and the training of curative eurythmists.
Anthroposophical
Therapeutic Speech
The Curative Education Course
12 Lectures, Dornach,
June 25-July 7, 1924 (GA 317)
Rudolf Steiner
Barbara Denjean-von Stryk
and Dietrich von Bonin
This book gives a precise summary of anthroposophical therapeutic speech. The work is based
on speech exercises and indications on how to
use them, which were given by Rudolf Steiner.
$50.00 192 pages
The revolutionary approach and far-reaching
perspective of these lectures is an inspiration to
those cultivating a spiritual approach to working with individuals with special needs. Using
detailed case studies, Steiner describes illnesses,
therapeutic methods, medical treatments, and
valuable advice for developing teaching abilities.
Autism
A Holistic Approach
third edition
Marga Hogenboom and Bob Woodward
$35.00 352 pages
Caring for an autistic child is a difficult task, often associated with frustration. As a result, the inner development
of autistic children is at times considered beyond the
reach of caregivers. This book challenges that assumption, exploring case studies where therapy based on a
Foundations of
Curative Eurythmy
Barbara Denjean-von Stryk teaches speech formation in Germany and Switzerland, and has a practice
for therapeutic speech.
Dietrich von Bonin teaches therapeutic speech in
Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
holistic approach has resulted in marked improvements
in the autistic child’s behavior and social integration.
This new edition features recent developments in diagnostic methods and approaches to treatment, new case
studies, and a new chapter looking at the sensory aspect
of autism and Sensory Integration Therapy.
Dr. Marga Hogenboom lives and works at the Camphill Rudolf
Steiner School near Aberdeen, Scotland, and is a director of
the Camphill Medical Practice.
Bob Woodward, MEd, MPhil, has taught children with severe
learning difficulties, including children with autism, since 1970.
He works at the Sheiling School in Gloucestershire, England.
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Special Care
INSIDE AN AUTISTIC WORLD
A Portrait of Camphill
Healthy Body, Healthy Brain
Spiritual Experiences of People
with Autism
Edited by Wolfgang Weirauch
Interviews with Hilke, Andreas, Erik,
and Martin Osika and Jos Meereboer
From Founding Seed to
Worldwide Movement
Edited by Jan Martin Bang
Alzheimer’s and Dementia Prevention
and Care
Jenny Lewis
$40.00 208 pages
$13.95 64 pages
$24.00 216 pages
The Camphill Movement is a worldwide network of homes and villages for children and
adults with special needs. This beautiful book,
bursting with over 200 photographs, is a joyful
celebration of the story of Camphill. The fascinating feature-articles cover everything from
the history of Camphill, to the development
of individual communities around the world,
and the future challenge of sharing Camphill’s
message with the wider world.
This encouraging guide discusses the importance of valuing and caring for the elderly, of
encouraging mobility and independence for
as long as possible. There is an emphasis on
the prevention of Alzheimer’s and Dementia
through nutrition, physical activity and maintaining a positive attitude to life, as well as suggestions on how to improve the health and wellbeing of those suffering from these conditions.
Many individuals with autism are highly intelligent and gifted, but some are effectively
imprisoned in their bodies and unable to communicate verbally. However, developments in
technology have enabled autistic people to
transmit their thoughts directly. In this true
account, three autistic people speak via the
method of “facilitated communication”, with
the aid of a computer keypad. What is conveyed
are surprising spiritual and metaphysical perceptions. The conversations reveal remarkable
clairvoyant gifts, and their insights provide an
astonishing glimpse into the way some people
with autism appear to experience the world.
Additional interviews with educators and therapists working with people with disabilities in the
autistic spectrum give a broad view of progressive and inspirational educational methods.
Eurythmy
Therapy
8 Lectures,
Dornach and
Stuttgart, April
1921-October 1922
(CW 315)
Rudolf Steiner
Isbn: 9781855842243
Paperback Rudolf Steiner Press $26.00
176 pages
These lectures to eurythmists and doctors
describe the principles of therapeutic eurythmy and provides exercises, called “inner
gymnastics,” that contain enormous potential
for psychological and physiological well-being.
Previously published as Curative Eurythmy, this
new edition includes an appendix of reminiscences by early eurythmists and a commentary
by Dr. Walter Kugler.
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Jan Martin Bang lives in the Solborg Camphill community in Norway. He leads training and development for new ecovillage projects around the world.
Holistic Special Education
Camphill Principles and Practice
Robin Jackson
$35.00 228 pages
Written by people who are actively involved in
holistic special education on a daily basis, this
is an honest and informative manual that will
be valued by parents and professionals alike.
Children
with Special
Needs
Michael Luxford
ISBN: 9780862155482
Paperback
floris books $14.95
128 pages
This guide, illustrated
with color photographs, is a concise
introduction to Rudolf Steiner’s ideas on the
development and education of children with
special needs. This book gives an overview of
the development of the child, educational options and therapies for special needs, and special
topics such as adolescence.
Jenny Lewis established the Eden Centre for Holistic
Health and Creative Development in 1986.
The Physiology of
Eurythmy Therapy
Hans-Broder von Laue
and Elke von Laue
$50.00 160 pages
The authors of this book have researched eurythmy therapy for many years, and this book
is a comprehensive overview of their work.
Hans-Broder von Laue teaches therapeutic eurythmy
and is an anthroposophical physician.
Elke von Laue trained as a nurse. She has worked
as an anthroposophical therapist for many years.
Anthroposophical Care
for the Elderly
Annegret Camps, Brigitte Hagenhoff,
and Ada van der Star
$40.00 144 pages
This book describes specific approaches for
professional nurses and caregivers, and offers
practical care plans.
Annegret Camps trained as a nurse at an anthroposophic hospital in Germany and worked in care for
the elderly. She lectures on nursing and care work.
Brigitte Hagenhoff has a master’s degree in care work.
Ada van der Star lectures on eldercare in Germany.
Parenting and Family
Homemaking as a
Social Art
Creating a Home for Body, Soul,
and Spirit
Veronika van Duin
Bedtime Storytelling
Breaking the Link Between
Masculinity and Violence
Myriam Miedzian
A Collection for Parents
Beatrys Lockie
The author suggests that homemaking needs
to be undertaken consciously as an honored
and valued area of work, and thus we can enjoy a happier family and home life. She offers
principles and observations based on a study
of the seven “life processes” and how they affect
us. She addresses the significance of rhythm,
relationships, artistic environment, caring, selfdevelopment, and much more.
the Spiritual Tasks of the
Homemaker
Manfred Schmidt-Brabant
$12.95 48 pages
The author offers ideas for enlivening the tasks
of homemaking with spiritual knowledge. We
can discover, for example, how to work with
the non-physical aspects of the household—its
etheric and astral natures— and with different
spiritual beings connected to the home.
Transforming History
A New Curriculum
for a Planetary Culture
William Irwin Thompson
This book provides a thorough investigation
of the numerous factors influencing aggression
and violence in American males. In addition, it
offers descriptions and proposals for interventions, social action, and solutions to break the
link between masculinity and violence.
Myriam Miedzian has been a professor of philosophy
at a number of universities, including Rutgers and
the City University of New York.
Bringing
the Best
Out in Boys
Communication
Strategies
for Teachers
Lucinda Neall
ISBN: 9781903458297
Paperback
Lucinda Neall works with teachers and schools
to identify what helps boys learn. These timetested communication strategies help get the
best out of boys. The tips for tackling difficult
behavior will result in more classroom co-operation and learning—so that everyone benefits.
$20.00 144 pages
This collection of well-loved bedtime tales for
children ages three to seven includes advice on
how to tell stories—how to establish a bedtime
routine, create a mood, involve children, and
personalize stories. Many of the stories are old
favorites that are told regularly in kindergartens,
nurseries, and schools—tales about magical
creatures and exotic animals—as well as stories
from everyday life.
Healing Stories for
Challenging Behaviour
Susan Perrow
This book offers a creative approach to helping
children who are facing trauma or other difficulties. Included are modern stories and traditional folk tales for behavior difficulties such
as dishonesty, stealing, bullying, and fighting.
Also included are stories to help with challenges
such as moving to a new house, a new baby in
the family, nightmares, illness, and grieving.
The book also offers a guide to help parents
and teachers create their own healing stories.
Susan Perrow, M.Ed., is a storyteller, teacher trainer,
parent educator and counsellor.
Therapeutic Storytelling
Thompson discusses how to transform a cultural legacy in the course of transmitting it. His
visionary approach takes education beyond the
watered-down curricula many students face in
schools. He presents a far-reaching system of
knowledge and teaching, and suggests how we
can stimulate the best and healthiest patterns
of development in our children and teenagers.
William Irwin Thompson, Ph.D., was short-listed for
the National Book Award in 1972 and received the
Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986.
Boys Will Be Boys
101 Healing Stories for Children
Susan Perrow
ISBN: 9781907359156 Paperback Hawthorn Press $37.00 256 pages
Working with imaginative journeys and the mystery and magic of
metaphor, Susan Perrow has developed the art of therapeutic storytelling for children’s challenging behavior and difficult situations. This
new treasury of healing stories addresses issues such as unruly behavior,
grieving, anxiety, lack of confidence, bullying, teasing, nightmares,
intolerance, inappropriate talk, toileting, bedwetting, and much more.
Susan Perrow, M.Ed., gives therapeutic storytelling workshops worldwide. Her acclaimed first book,
Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour, has been translated into several languages.
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Authentic Parenting
Calm Kids
A Thought Is Just a Thought
A Four Temperaments Guide
to Understanding Your Child
and Yourself
Bari Borsky and Judith Haney
Help Children Relax with Mindful
Activities
Lorraine E. Murray
A Story of Living with OCD
Leslie Talley; Foreword by
Michael A. Jenike, M.D.
$18.95 176 pages
Stress and behavioral disorders are common in
children, as they are bombarded by marketing
campaigns, confronted with school and peer
pressure, and affected by the stress of adults
around them. The author shows how mindfulness and meditation can help children cope
with these pressures, releasing bad feelings and
giving them tools to deal with stress. This book
is suitable for beginners or those with experience of relaxation and meditation techniques.
This is the story of Jenny, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It describes
visits to a doctor, who helps Jenny overcome her
fears by showing her how to rethink the bad
thoughts, and eventually she stops dwelling on
the thought and its irrational consequences, realizing that, after all, a thought is just a thought.
$12.00 104 pages
Are you finding it difficult to understand your
child, or do you often end up in an argument?
By gaining insight into how your temperament and your child’s temperament could be
in conflict, you can learn to work with yourself
and your child to head off misunderstandings.
Bari Borsky is Director of Community Development
at Highland Hall Waldorf School.
Judith Haney enhances productivity and efficiency
for the Corporate Aerospace industry.
Why Children Don’t Listen
A Guide for Parents and Teachers
Monika Kiel-Hinrichsen
$19.95 224 pages
Here is an invaluable handbook on all aspects
of talking and listening to children, including
speaking to children of different ages, the effect
of your voice, and understanding the wider situation in which the conversation is taking place.
The author provides practical solutions, showing it’s not what we say, but how we say it—and
how well we listen to the answers—that matters.
Working with
Family Questions
Gudrun Davy
and Bons Voors
Lorraine E. Murray is the managing director of Feel
Good Therapies.
You and Your Teenager
ISBN: 9780950706245
Paperback
Hawthorn Press
$26.00 328 pages
Understanding the Journey
Jeanne Meijs
$35.00 352 pages
As the relationship between parents and teenagers changes and develops, it can feel as if the
child is rejecting all the usual forms of love and
care. Teenagehood can be a challenging time,
but also a journey along a path that parents and
teenagers can travel together. This book helps
parents understand the journey and support
their child along the way.
Brothers
and Sisters
Jeanne Meijs lives in the Netherlands and is a family
therapist. She has written several parenting books.
The Order of
Birth in the Family
Karl König
Introduction
by Richard Steel
Making a Family Home
This book is about children, family life, and
parenting. Most of all it is about freedom—and
how to resolve the tension between personal
fulfillment and family life. Lifeways originated
among a group seeking a renewed spirit in family life. They wanted to create a new vision of the
purpose of mothers and fathers—a new eye for
the meaning of home as a place that supports
everyone involved.
More Lifeways
Finding Support
and Inspiration
in Family Life
Patti Smith and
Signe E. Schaefer
Shannon Honeybloom
Photography by Skip Hunt
$20.00 90 pages Full color throughout
ISBN: 9780863158469
Paperback Floris Books $20.00 160 pages
expanded edition
According to Karl König, just as our environment shapes our language, social behavior,
and mannerisms, so our place in the family
determines how we encounter life.
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Lifeways
The author shows how she made—and how we
can make—a house into a real home. Illustrated
with evocative photographs, she offers practical
suggestions for virtually every aspect of bringing love, comfort, and beauty to a family home.
Shannon Honeybloom has an M.A. in Literary
Cultures and an M.S. in Early Childhood Education.
ISBN: 9781869890865
Paperback Hawthorn
Press $24.00 200 pages
Twenty-seven articles follow the successful
Lifeways and include subjects such as listening
and the art of relationship, inner development,
money issues, sex, power, spirituality, single
parenting, fathering, mid-life, dying, and more.
Old Age
Traveling Light
Where Are You?
Journey into Simplicity
Helen M. Luke
Walking the Cancer Path
William Ward
ISBN: 9781584200611 Paperback Lindisfarne
Coming to Terms with the Death
of My Child
Karin V. Schilling
In this classic text on aging wisely, the author reflects on the final journeys described in Homer’s
Odyssey, Shakespeare’s King Lear, and T.S. Eliot’s
Little Gidding. In examining some of the great
masterpieces of literature produced by writers
at the end of their lives, she elucidates the difference between growing old and disintegrating,
encouraging the reader to grow emotionally and
mentally during the culminating stage of life.
This generous, courageous, and wise book offers
a selfless glimpse behind the curtain of a journey
with cancer, from shock to inner rebirth and
the gradual discovery of light in the darkness.
Helen M. Luke (1904-1995) was born in England.
She was an author and a renowned Jungian analyst.
William Ward was a Waldorf class teacher for twentyfive years at Hawthorne Valley School in Harlemville,
New York. He crossed the threshold October 5, 2008,
at the age of sixty-one.
Children Who Communicate
Before They Are Born
Conversations with Unborn Souls
Dietrich Bauer, Max Hoffmeister,
and Hartmut Goerg
How I Feel
A Book About Diabetes
Michael Olson
$26.00 256 pages
40 black & white illustrations
When Michael Olson’s seven-year-old brother
Steven came down with juvenile diabetes, Michael and his family were shocked to find out
how little information was available to help
explain the disease to a child. Michael resolved
to learn as much as he could about his brother’s
illness and to write and illustrate his own book
based upon his brother’s experience.
Expectant mothers have a deep connection to
their unborn children. They may know something of the child’s appearance, character, or life
path, even though the baby’s body is still being
formed within the womb. Gathered by three
medical doctors, this book features remarkable
case studies of souls who communicate before
they are born. Also addressed are issues such as
abortion and contraception, and the spiritual
and scientific aspects of conception and birth.
A touching and deep account of the author’s
long odyssey to understand the sudden death of
her thirteen-year-old daughter, Saskia, in a car
accident. The path was extremely difficult, but
she awoke to experience the reality of Saskia’s
spiritual presence.
why on earth?
Biography and the Practice
of Human Becoming
Signe Elkund Schaefer
isbn: 9781621480402 Paperback SteinerBooks
$25.00 254 pages
Each of our lives expresses uniqueness of spiritual intention within the unfolding of universal
rhythms and possibilities. Why on Earth? invites
us to explore our own meaning-filled life journey, to bring conscious attention to how we go
our path, so that we may more freely perceive
our possibilities and our responsibilities along
the way of our personal and shared becoming.
Signe Eklund Schaefer was the founding director of
a professional development program in Biography
and Social Art, one of several activities of the Center
for Biography and Social Art.
Muddles, Puddles,
and Sunshine
Out of the Blue
Making Memories Last
When Someone Has Died
Julie Stokes and Paul Oxley
Your Activity Book to Help
When Someone Has Died
Diana Crossley; Illustrated
by Kate Sheppard
winston's wish Hawthorn Press
$16.00 32 pages
winston's wish Hawthorn Press $9.95 32 pages
(also available in harcover ISBN: 9781903458969 $20.00)
A companion to Muddles, Puddles, and Sunshine, this book is a collection
of tried and tested ideas to help teens through the bereavement process.
This activity book offers practical and sensitive support for bereaved
younger children with helpful activities and exercises accompanied
by the friendly characters of Bee and Bear.
Winston’s Wish is a national charity based in Gloucestershire, England, that
helps bereaved children and young people rebuild their lives after a family
death. Their website is www.winstonswish.org.uk
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Foundations of Waldorf Education
Foundations of Waldorf Education Series
The first Waldorf school opened in September 1919 under the auspices of Emil Molt, director of the Waldorf Astoria Cigarette
Company, who was a student of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science and was especially affected by Steiner’s call for social renewal.
Molt responded by creating a school for his workers’ children. Since that time, nearly a thousand schools have opened around
the world, making the Waldorf movement the largest independent educational movement in the world. There are more than
140 Waldorf schools in the United States, Canada, and Mexico alone.
The true foundations of the Waldorf method and spirit are Steiner’s many lectures on education and child development. From
1919 until 1924, he worked tirelessly to disseminate his ideas on Waldorf education. He gave numerous lectures to teachers,
parents, children, and the public as new schools were established and the movement grew.
14 lectures,
Stuttgart, 1919
(GAs 293 & 66)
Rudolf Steiner
Foreword by Henry
Barnes; Introduced and Translated by
Nancy Whittaker and Robert Lathe
This volume integrates theory with the nuts
and bolts of teaching, offering practical advice
for the classroom.
Steiner spoke of new ways to teach reading,
writing, geography, geometry, languages, and
much more. His approach is tailored to the
spiritual and physical needs of the children,
not to an arbitrary curriculum based solely on
external results.
ISBN: 9780880103923 Paperback Foundations
of Waldorf Education (vol. 1) $20.00
356 pages
These first lectures to the first Waldorf teachers are some of Steiner’s most remarkable and
significant statements on education and human
development. Because this may be his most
concise and detailed account of human nature,
these lectures are also fundamental for anyone
who wishes to understand Anthroposophy and
its view of the world. Steiner provides a powerful, convincing, and profound phenomenological “anthropology,” or human spiritual psychology, for parents, psychologists, and counselors.
This is a primary text for Waldorf education.
Also available as Study of Man
Practical
Advice to
Teachers
14 talks, Stuttgart,
Aug.-Sept. 1919
(GA 294)
Rudolf Steiner
Translated,
Revised, and
Edited by J. Collis; Introduced by
Astrid Schmitt-Stegmann
224 pages
During an intensive two weeks, Steiner gave
three simultaneous educational courses to
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Education As
a Force
for Social
Change
those who would become the first teachers
of the original Waldorf school, including this
course, The Foundations of Human Experience,
and Discussions with Teachers.
Discussions
with Teachers
15 discussions,
Stuttgart, Aug.Sep. 1919 (GA
295); 3 additional
lectures
Rudolf Steiner
Introduced by
Craig Giddens
224 pages
For two weeks before the first Waldorf school
opened in Stuttgart, Steiner prepared teachers
intensively to become its first teachers. At 9 a.m.
he gave the course published as The Foundations
of Human Experience; at 11, Practical Advice to
Teachers; and, after lunch, from 3 to 6, he held
these spontaneous and relaxed discussions.
Steiner does not prescribe specific methods but
discusses various topics and situations, simply
giving guidelines. Then practical assignments
are given, which are taken up and discussed
at the next session. The discussions are filled
with insights and indications in many areas
of teaching—history, geography, botany, zoology, form drawing, and mathematics are all
touched upon.
6 lectures,
Dornach, Aug.
9-17, 1919; 3
lectures, Stuttgart,
May 11 & 18, and
June 1, 1919 (GAs 296 & 192)
Rudolf Steiner
272 pages
These radical lectures were given one month before the opening of the first Waldorf school and
following two years of intense preoccupation
with the social situation in Germany as World
War I ended and society sought to rebuild itself. Well aware of the dangerous tendencies in
modern culture that undermine true social life,
Steiner saw that any solution must address not
only economic and legal issues, but also that of
a free spiritual life. Only the proper nurturing
of the virtues of imitation, reverence, and love
at the right times in a child’s development can
create mature adults who are prepared to fulfil
the demands of a truly healthy social life and
assume the responsibilities of cultural freedom,
legal equality, and economic brotherhood.
Also included here are three lectures on the
social basis of education, a lecture to public
school teachers, and a lecture to the workers of
the Waldorf Astoria Cigarette Company.
Also included are speech exercises and, for
the first time in English, three very important
lectures on the curriculum.
photo: David McLain
The
Foundations
of Human
Experience
The Spirit of the
Waldorf School
6 lectures, Stuttgart and Basel, 1919
(GAs 297, 24)
Rudolf Steiner; Translated by
Robert Lathe and Nancy Whittaker
208 pages
An inspiring introduction to Waldorf education. These lectures outline the goals and intent
of the Waldorf school, explaining its guiding
principles and how parents must participate
with understanding and interest in awakening
their children’s creative forces. Includes “The
Intent of the Waldorf School,” “The Spirit of
the Waldorf School,” “Spiritual Science and
Pedagogy,” and “The Pedagogical Objective of
the Waldorf School in Stuttgart.”
Rudolf Steiner in the
Waldorf School
Faculty Meetings
with Rudolf Steiner
Vol. 1: 1919–1922 (GA 300a–300b);
Vol. 2: 1922–1924 (GA 300b–300c)
864 pages
Steiner worked with teachers on every detail of
the first Waldorf school—lesson plans, religious
education, schedules, resources, administration,
finance, child study—and dealt with frustrations, successes, and failures. Guiding the faculty,
he moved toward his goal of creating a vehicle
for social transformation. This look behind the
scenes will captivate anyone interested in the
early stages of the Waldorf school movement.
The Renewal of Education
Lectures and Conversations,
Stuttgart, 1919-1924 (GA 298)
Catherine E. Creeger
224 pages
Steiner’s informal talks given in the Stuttgart
school from 1919 to 1924. Included are speeches
given by him at various school assemblies,
parents’evenings, and other meetings.This is
a unique glimpse into Steiner’s views on the
educational philosophy he brought into being.
The Genius of Language
6 lectures, Stuttgart, Dec. 1919-Jan.
1920 (GA 299)
Gertrude Teutsch and Ruth Pusch
144 pages
Steiner demonstrates how history and psychology combine to form languages and how this
power has dwindled, but also how the seed
of language—the penetration of sense into
sound—can be accessed today.
14 lectures, 2 talks on Eurythmy,
Basel, April–May 1920 (GA 301)
224 pages
Steiner outlines the child’s gradual development,
aided by spiritual forces and enlightened educational practices which are the basis for Waldorf
education. He describes the problems that face
educators today and gives practical solutions. He
explains the effects of morality on true freedom
and how the development of a child’s moral
capacity leads to free, flexible thinking. He also
describes how teaching methods in the early
grades have a lifelong effect on children.
These lectures cover a broad range: the threefold
human being; the responsibility of teachers toward their students’ futures; arts such as music
and eurythmy; problems in teacher training;
zoology, botany, language, geography, and
history. These lectures provide accessible and
practical ideas for renewing modern education.
Education for Adolescents
8 lectures, Stuttgart, 1921 (GA 302)
Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Carl Hoffman
160 pages
In this important collection of lectures, originally
delivered in 1921 to teachers at the first Waldorf
school in Stuttgart, Steiner discussed his ideas
about the developmental stages of children and
approaches to teaching adolescents. Throughout
these lectures, Steiner stresses the unity of human
life and the task of Waldorf education—to help
mature, responsible beings enter the “real world”
and work for the common good. An essential addition to the literature on adolescent education.
Balance in Teaching
9 lectures: Stuttgart, Sept.-Oct. 1923
(GA 302a)
René Querido and Ruth Pusch
of Waldorf Education (vol. 11)
$17.95 220 pages
Steiner asserts that the presence of dishonesty
and alienation in society cannot be addressed
without a completely renewed and holistic education. Successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the “spiritual gymnast,” the “ensouled
rhetorician,” and the “intellectual professor.”
“It’s impossible for true teaching to be boring,”
declares Steiner, and he offers several examples
of how teachers can observe a natural phenomenon so intimately that its creative life can flow
into the children through a teacher’s own words.
He also describes how the actions of teachers directly affect the physiological chemistry of their
students. From this perspective, education is
really therapy, transformed to a higher level, and
should be seen as closely related to the healing
arts. Steiner also shows how the perception of
hidden relationships between education and the
processes of human development can kindle a
heartfelt enthusiasm and a sense of responsibility in teachers for the far-reaching health effects
that educational activities can produce.
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Waldorf Education and
Anthroposophy, Volume 2
Body, Soul, and Spirit in Waldorf
Education. 16 lectures in Dornach,
Switzerland, Dec. 23, 1921-Jan. 7,
1922 (GA 303)
Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Roland Everett
12 public talks, 1923-1924
(GA 218b, 304a)
Rudolf Steiner
Introduced by René Querido
384 pages
Steiner describes an education based on the
human as a continually developing being of
body, soul, and spirit. From this perspective,
Waldorf education depends on the teacher’s
ability to observe and respond to each stage of
a child’s development. Steiner shows how Waldorf education emphasizes the efficient use of
children’s inner energies and how children can
be nurtured through their natural stages of development by giving them just what they need
at the right time—an approach that Steiner calls
“soul economy.” These detailed and accessible
lectures give the keys to a much-needed renewal
of education for our children and their future.
Waldorf Education and
Anthroposophy, Volume 1
9 public talks, 1921-1922 (GA 304)
Rudolf Steiner
Introduced by René Querido
272 pages
This is the first of two volumes of Steiner’s
public lectures on Waldorf education.
Steiner presented his ideas to the general public
with surprising directness. Teaching, Steiner
says, should be artistic, creative, and improvisational, not dogmatic. Yet he is clear that the great
battle concerns the spiritual nature of the child.
Other themes include understanding the role
of health and illness in education, as well as
repeated expositions of the three major phases
in child development: imitation, authority, and
freedom. There are also two lectures Steiner
gave in England on Shakespeare and new ideals
in education.
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244 pages
This is the second of two volumes of Steiner's
public lectures on Waldorf education. In this
collection, as in the previous volume, Steiner is
outspoken about the spiritual nature of human
beings and the world, including the spiritual
nature of Waldorf education.
The Spiritual Ground
of Education
9 Lectures, Manchester College,
Oxford, 1922 (GA 305)
Rudolf Steiner
Introduced by Christopher Bamford
160 pages
Given during a conference on spiritual values
in education and life and attended by many
prominent people of the time, Steiner’s Oxford
lectures present the principles of Waldorf education at the highest cultural level. They form one
of the best introductions to Waldorf education.
understand, Steiner goes into the basis of his
educational philosophy, giving many examples
and anecdotes to convey his meaning. In this
way, against the background of the developing
child, he allows the curriculum and the method
of teaching to emerge as the commonsense
conclusion of practical experience.
A Modern Art of Education
14 lectures, Ilkeley, England,
August 5–17, 1923 (GA 307)
Rudolf Steiner
256 pages
Here is a comprehensive introduction to
Steiner’s philosophy, psychology, and practice of
education, describing the union of science, art,
religion, and morality, which was the aim of all
his work and underlies his concept of education.
Against this background, Steiner develops a new
developmental psychology. Having established
how children’s consciousness develops, Steiner
discusses how to present various subjects so that
they grow inwardly. Only when children absorb
the right subject in the right way at the right
time can real inner freedom—so necessary for
modern life—become second nature.
The Child’s Changing
Consciousness
As the Basis of Pedagogical Practice;
8 lectures, Dornach, Switzerland,
1923 (GA 306)
Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Roland Everett
232 pages
These lectures are among Steiner’s most accessible on the subject of education and are ideal
for those approaching this method for the first
time. Using language any teacher or parent can
photo: Freya Jaffke
Soul Economy
5 Lectures, Stuttgart, 1924 (GA 308)
Rudolf Steiner
128 pages
Along with The Roots of Education, these lectures present a synthesis of Waldorf education.
The Waldorf experiment was five years old and
had become an established, concrete reality.
Steiner had guided the school from its beginning, and here he distills his observations into
the essentials of Waldorf education.
The Roots of Education
5 lectures, Berne, 1924 (GA 309)
Rudolf Steiner
128 pages
Steiner offers deep insight into the mystery of
the soul and spirit forces involved in childhood
development. He describes the transformations
that take place as these forces unfold, explaining how teaching relates to these fundamental
changes and prepares children to become citizens of both the physical and spiritual worlds.
By recognizing our spiritual citizenship, we can
become truly social on earth and fully creative
in building new worlds.
Human Values in Education
10 Lectures, Arnheim, Holland, 1924
(GA 310)
Rudolf Steiner
224 pages
The underlying thesis of these lectures is that
true education must be based on knowledge of
the whole human being and that such knowledge cannot be attained without love. On this
basis, Steiner presents his understanding of
every aspect of child development—bodily,
psychological, and spiritual. At the same time,
he shows that, to prove worthy of their calling,
teachers must begin a process of inner development. In Steiner’s view, it is human beings who
give value and meaning to the world. Modern
education, however, is gradually undermining
this meaning. These lectures demonstrate that
education can heal that lack of meaning and restore the meaning of humankind for the world.
by scientific positivists, emphasizing instead
the validity of human experience and pointing
toward a revolution in scientific paradigms that
would reclaim ground for the subject—the human being—in the study of nature.
Steiner also discusses the practical, day-to-day
operation of the school. He talks about styles
of teaching, teacher conferences, parent-teacher
meetings, and how Waldorf education is related
to the anthroposophic movement.
And Early Lectures on Education;
A collection of writings and lectures
Rudolf Steiner
The Kingdom of Childhood
Introductory Talks on Waldorf
Education; 7 lectures, Torquay,
England, 1924 (GA 311)
Rudolf Steiner
160 pages
These talks are perhaps the best-known introduction to Steiner’s ideas on Waldorf education.
Steiner shows the need for teachers to develop
themselves by transforming their natural gifts,
and how teachers can use humor to keep their
teaching lively and imaginative. Above all, he
stresses the importance of doing everything
with the awareness that children are citizens
of both the spiritual and the physical worlds.
The Education of the Child
160 pages
Around 1884, while tutoring a boy with special
needs, Steiner acquired an interest in applying
spiritual knowledge to practical life. The essay
at the core of this book, originally published
in 1907, represents the earliest expressions of
his ideas on education. Here he lays out for the
first time the soul and spiritual processes of
human development and describes the need
to understand how children develop in their
being through successive “births,” beginning
with the physical body and culminating when
the I-being emerges at adulthood.
Also included are several early lectures on education, given between 1906 and 1911.
The Light Course
Toward the Development of a New
Physics; 10 Lectures, Stuttgart, Dec.
23, 1919-Jan. 3, 1920 (GA 320)
Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Raoul Cansino
224 pages
This course on light explores the phenomena of
color, sound, mass, electricity, and magnetism.
Based on Goethe’s approach to the study of
nature, it presages the dawn of a new view in
the natural sciences that turns our notion of
the physical world upside down. Steiner corrects the mechanistic reductionism practiced
photo: David McLain
The Essentials of Education
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Teacher Resources
Mathematics in Nature,
Space, and Time
new Edition
John Blackwood
$29.95 216 pages Full-color illustrations
and diagrams throughout
Mathematics in Nature, Space, and Time is a
Waldorf teacher resource for math in Class 7
(ages 12-13) and Class 8 (ages 13-14). This new
edition combines Mathematics Around Us and
Mathematics in Space and Time.
John Blackwood worked in mechanical engineering
design for nearly thirty years. Inspired by Lawrence
Edwards (author of Projective Geometry), Blackwood
became a teacher at the Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner
School in Sydney, Australia, where he designed a
math course for classes 11 and 12. His ideas were
adopted by the school board of New South Wales.
to 20th centuries, including the French, American
and Industrial revolutions. Kovacs chooses pertinent stories to create a rich tapestry that shows
the development of humankind, from medieval
times—when every person had a fixed place in
the social hierarchy—to the awakening of individuality in modern times. Class 8 (Ages 13-14).
Ancient Rome
Charles Kovacs
$19.95 224 pages
Stories of the founding of Rome; early battles
with Carthage and Hannibal; Julius Caesar and
the conquests of Gaul and Britain; Antony and
Cleopatra; and the decline and fall under the
Huns and the beginning of the “Dark Ages.”
Class 6 (Ages 11-12).
Ancient Greece
Geology and Astronomy
Charles Kovacs
Charles Kovacs
$17.95 160 pages
$19.95 176 pages
This book describes the different kinds of rocks,
soil, and mountains and explores how they came
into being. It also examines the movements of
the Sun, Moon, and stars. Throughout, Kovacs
links the phenomena he is describing to human
experience and how they affect people in various
parts of the world. Classes 6-7 (Ages 11-13).
The Age of Discovery
Charles Kovacs
$20.00 224 pages
An overview of world history from the time
of the Crusades to the Renaissance. Subjects
include Saladin, Joan of Arc, Columbus, Magellan, Queen Elizabeth, and Sir Francis Drake.
Class 8 (Ages 13-14).
the Age of
Revolution
Charles Kovacs
ISBN: 9780863153952
$19.95 240 pages
A valuable overview of
world history, from the 18th
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Legendary stories of mythical heroes and historic figures from the dawn of Western civilization through the deeds of Heracles, Theseus,
and Odysseus, to the Golden Age of Athens and
the conquests of Alexander the Great. These
stories portray our human journey from the
mysteries of antiquity to the birth of modern
medicine, science, and philosophy. Classes 5-6
(Ages 10-12).
Parsifal and the Search
for the Grail
Charles Kovacs
$17.95 128 pages
The Parsifal story stands between the past age
that looked for secrets of the spirit and the
coming age that would search for the secrets
of matter. Class 11 (Ages 16-17).
Botany
Charles Kovacs
$19.95 112 pages
Describes various plants, from fungi, algae,
and lichens to the lily and rose families and
demonstrates the parts of each plant and their
growth cycles. Classes 5-6 (Ages 10-12).
Muscles and Bones
Charles Kovacs
$20.00 128 pages
An overview of human physiology and anatomy, including health and hygiene. Classes 7-8
(Ages 12-14).
Ancient Mythologies
India, Persia, Babylon, Egypt
Charles Kovacs
From Atlantis to the civilizations of India, Persia,
Babylonia, and Egypt. Class 5 (Ages 9-12).
The Human Being
and the Animal World
Charles Kovacs
$18.00 144 pages
A resource book about animals in relation to
human beings. Classes 4-5 (Ages 9-11).
Norse Mythology
Charles Kovacs
$20.00 224 pages
A retelling of the stories of Norse mythology
recommended for the Waldorf curriculum,
Class 4 (Ages 9-10). Included are myths on
creation, Odin and Mimir, Thor and Thialfi,
Idun, Sif, and Loki.
Charles Kovacs (1907-2001) was born in Austria.
He was a class teacher at the Edinburgh Steiner
School for 20 years until retiring in 1976. His
extensive lesson notes have been a useful and
inspiring resource material for many teachers.
Teacher Resources
Republican Academies
Towards Creative Teaching
Rudolf Steiner on Self-Management,
Experiential Study, and Self-Education
in the Life of a College of Teachers
Francis Gladstone
Notes to an Evolving Curriculum for
Steiner Waldorf Class Teachers
ISBN: 9781900169356 Pamphlet $11.95 46 pages
This book includes excerpts from Rudolf Steiner’s speeches and writings and explores his views
on the life of a college of teachers, outlining
some of the history of the Waldorf philosophy.
Francis Gladstone is a Waldorf school teacher.
The Care and Development
of the Human Senses
Rudolf Steiner’s Work on the
Significance of the Senses in Education
new edition
Willi Aeppli
$16.95 112 pages
Willi Aeppli presents an in-depth study of Rudolf Steiner’s ideas about the nature and function of the human senses, and how to cultivate
the senses in a healthy way through education.
This book provides insights into how to overcome many educational difficulties of our time.
Willi Aeppli (1894–1972) was a master Waldorf teacher in the Rudolf Steiner School in Basel, Switzerland.
A Handbook
for Waldorf
Class Teachers
second Edition
Compiled
by Kevin Avison
ISBN: 9781900169172 Spiralbound $19.95 98 pages
This book provides detailed suggestions and
checklists for teaching all lessons for Waldorf
classes 1 to 8. The appendix features a compilation of planners for teachers, and a collection of
example records for students and their teachers.
Kevin Avison has been a teacher in public and Waldorf schools. He is an executive officer of the Steiner
Waldorf Schools Fellowship and lives in England.
new edition
Edited by Martyn Rawson
and Kevin Avison
$19.95 192 pages
This useful resource book for Waldorf teachers
offers help in planning, shaping, and developing main lesson ideas and the accompanying
subject lessons for Classes 1 to 8. Taking the
Waldorf curriculum as its basis, without being
restrictive or prescriptive, this book comes out
of a working-teachers group to provide suggestions primarily for class teachers but also
for subject specialists, adding to the richness
and imagination of each teacher’s own work.
Martyn Rawson has been a Waldorf teacher since
1979 in the United Kingdom and Germany.
Report Verses in Rudolf
Steiner’s Art of Education
Healing Forces in Words
and Their Rhythms
new edition
Heinz Müller
Religious Education in
Steiner-Waldorf Schools
Extracts from Rudolf Steiner’s
Lectures and Meetings
new edition
Edited by Helmut von Kügelgen and
Tilde von Eiff
$27.95 192 pages
Previously published as Towards Religious Education by the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship.
This is a collection of Rudolf Steiner’s thoughts
and ideas on teaching religion in Waldorf
schools and about Sunday services for children.
Helmut von Kügelgen spent thirty years as a teacher
at the original Waldorf school in Stuttgart.
Tilde von Eiff was a religious education teacher.
Educating through
Arts and Crafts
An Integrated Approach to Craft
Work in Steiner Waldorf Schools
Edited by Michael Martin
$35.00 216 pages over 300 b&w illustrations
$14.95 80 pages
This book presents many ideas for craft-activity
classes, while analyzing their role in the student’s self-discovery and creative development.
“The education of children today needs above all
to work therapeutically.” —Jesse Darrell
Michael Martin is a woodwork teacher at the Waldorf
school in Nurnberg, Germany.
This book explores the recommendation that
Rudolf Steiner gave to class teachers that they
create individual verses for each student (called
“report” or “birthday” verses) to be inserted
in the annual school report, which through
their form and content would help the child’s
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Georg Kühlewind; Translated by Michael Lipson, Ph.D.
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A Second Classroom
Parent-Teacher Relationships in a Waldorf School
Torin M. Finser
Preface
The inspiration for this book was sparked during a
conversation at the Thai Restaurant on Main Street
in Keene, New Hampshire. I was talking with a
former student, who was describing her impressions of parent–teacher work in Waldorf schools.
During our conversation, she said, “It is almost
as if the teacher today needs a second classroom,
given the importance of working with parents.”
This immediately lit up a long-standing theme in
my work, including topics I covered in two courses at Antioch
University New England, the one on administration and the
other on organizational integrity. We discussed the idea of a
book on this topic and the possibility of offering a new course
that could be taught jointly by a parent and a teacher. This
then led to my sending a proposal to my publisher and the
launch of a new project.
Many know of the unusual response Rudolf Steiner gave
to the question, “What is the ideal class size?” He responded by
saying, “How many parents can you work with?” Even though
this exchange occurred almost a hundred years ago, it serves
as a ringing endorsement for this book, in that it places parent–teacher work as a high priority for our schools, especially
those that rely on parent volunteerism to survive.
There are several additional justifications for this work:
Many of our alums from teacher education programs report
that although they were mostly well prepared for curriculum
design, working with children in age appropriate ways and a
host of other key attributes to good teaching, they were not
ready for the challenges in working with parents. Even those
who had a course or two that covered the topic, as we do at
Antioch, reported that the theme did not really hit home until
they were in charge of a group of children and actually immersed in the work. The preparatory work seemed theoretical
to them at the time, and they were not able to fully understand
the issues until they were working with real parents in day-today interactions in schools.
There has also been a host of studies showing that student
success in schools depends significantly on parent participation in their schools. Actively engaged parents who help with
homework, go on field trips, attend class nights, and so on
stimulate positive learning in their children and the teacher
is more engaged. In contrast, passivity can lead to disengagement and lower student achievement. In short, healthy parent–teacher and parent–school relations can make a huge
difference in our children’s lives.
We have all heard horror stories about things that have gone
wrong. When a relationship breaks down, it can lead to relocation, loss of friends, and family disruption. Independent schools
can suffer loss of enrollment that affects financial viability;
public schools can suffer in terms of reputation and standing
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in the community when parent dissatisfaction grows. It
is in the best interests of all
concerned that the adult
relationships in a school
model community and
healthy social interaction.
Through surveys and
interviews, I was able
to capture stories and
share case studies that
illustrate the challenges of parent–teacher
work. Some of the
topics I raise in this
book have long been considered taboo.
I raise them here not to judge (at some points the reader
may feel I am pro-parent, at others pro-teacher), but to make
these issues acceptable for discussion. Unless they are looked
at openly and honestly, we cannot improve. It is hoped that
we can learn from these experiences and not be compelled to
repeat past mistakes. We can learn from one another.
It takes a great leap of faith for a person to enter the teaching
profession these days. This book outlines some “best practices,”
directed especially toward beginning teachers to help them get
off to a good start. Included are a variety of practical, commonsense suggestions that can support successful parent–teacher
interactions. This book is intended to help parents and teachers
collaborate for the benefit of the children.
As adults, we are looked to as role models. Children see and
observe more than we often give them credit for, and what they
see shapes their attitudes toward adulthood. How parents and
teachers work together can go a long way toward shaping future
relationships. Our world needs more attention to communication, meeting mutual needs, problem solving, group work and a
host of other skills that can be fostered in the context of a school
as a learning organization for all involved. How the adults work
together can be as important as the curriculum on any given
day. Yet we need to do this work jointly; it takes two to tango!
We often get stuck in the ways we frame issues and cling
to old views of one another. Catch phrases such as “hysterical
parents” and “controlling teachers” take on a life of their own.
We need to move beyond the slogans and develop new selfawareness. This book brings a wide variety of perspectives so
that we—parents, teachers, administrators, and friends of education—can look at ourselves and grow from the experience. It
is no longer enough simply to have a few potluck picnics and
think we are dealing with the social issues of a school. What
is really needed is meaningful work together, and that work is
all about developing community.
Finally, the practical advice contained in this book (thanks to
the many respondents to surveys and interviews) is augmented
by some philosophical aspects intended to stimulate deeper reflection.
Thus the reader will find chapters on “I–thou” and “I–it,” increasing and
decreasing, family of origin, and so on. While not exhaustive on the subject,
the intention is to give birth to new perspectives that make it increasingly
likely that both parents and teachers self-observe. When we become selfaware, we are more likely to fight our inner battles first. There may be less
need to “play things out” externally if we have done inner work ahead of
time. With a few exceptions, the chapters in this book alternate between
practical advice and inner dimensions.
As with most things in life, the outer challenges are often accompanied
by inner struggles. Thus this book has been organized along two, concurrent lines: practical skills and the inner journey. The former will take up
the presenting issues and work with them in a direct, common-sense way,
with emphasis on applications. The second strand will look at some of the
same issues and others from a deeper, more philosophical point of view.
The outer path chapters will be in a regular font, the inner path sections will
be in italics. One could read the chapters in sequence or follow a particular
strand by skipping sections; it is the reader’s choice.
My hope is that this book serves and inspires. In the end, it is all about
our children; they hold the keys to our future.
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Facing the Dangers and Creating Safe Limits
Katie Singer
A recurring theme in the history of technological
innovation involves the unintended effects that new
technologies have on the health and well-being of
humans and other living organisms. Too often, the
nature and extent of these effects come to light only
after the technologies have been in place for some
time, at which point a certain amount of damage
has already been done.
In Silent Spring (1962), Rachel Carson alerted
a largely unsuspecting public to the consequences of
the widespread aerial spraying of DDT that had been
ongoing since the mid-1940s, eventually leading to its ban. More
than this though, Carson’s book was emblematic of a certain
awakening of consciousness, an environmental consciousness,
that, despite being much more widely known and accepted today
in 2014, still has a long way to go toward ensuring the survival
of life as we know it on our precious planet.
In An Electronic Silent Spring, Katie Singer has written and
researched a book that echoes Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in its
potential to fundamentally change or enhance our understanding of the environment and how life on earth is being affected by
our developing technologies. The exponential growth of electronic
and “wireless” technology in these early years of the 21st century
is unmistakable, but how much do we really know about these
devices and the effects they have on our health and well-being,
now and in the long-term?
What does the enormously
wide implementation of
this technology mean for life
on our planet, for us and
our children?
An Electronic Silent
Spring is required reading for anyone interested
in exploring the answers
to these questions. Katie
Singer provides the
reader with a basic
understanding of the
waves and frequencies
that increasingly surround and permeate our environment, and what this means for our health.
The result is a bracing and powerful wake-up call. Ms. Singer’s
intention is not to condemn progress and “move us back to the
stone age” (an easy and superficial criticism actually directed
at Rachel Carson’s book by the chemical industry), but to offer
a courageous and unflinching reckoning with an all-too-easilyoverlooked aspect of our world, along with clear indications as
to how we can move forward. —John Scott Legg
Introduction
Wi-Fi and Health
field generators, that accelerate the healing of bone fractures.
Anything that can stimulate cell division and growth is a
potential carcinogen.”1
In isolated human cells, Wi-Fi-like signals can activate the
“cell suicide” response.2
According to environmental consultant Stan Hartman,
having a Wi-Fi antenna in a router on your desk gives you
about the same amount of radiation that you would get thirty
meters or less from a typical cellular antenna.3
In 2006, the Simcoe County School District in Ontario,
Canada installed Wi-Fi. Since that time, in at least fourteen
of the district’s schools have students who became ill with
speeding heart rate, fatigue, and headaches. Two teenaged
students had cardiac arrests and went on heart medication.
“Now,” Rodney Palmer, spokesman for the Simcoe Safe School
Committee, reported to Canada’s Parliamentary Standing
Committee on Health in December, 2010, “every school in
Simcoe County has its own defibrillator, as though teenage
heart attacks are normal.”4
Common symptoms from being around Wi-Fi include headaches, fatigue, nausea, rashes, and difficulty sleeping.
According to epidemiologist Samuel Milham, MD, MPH,
“When industry apologists say that fields (like Wi-Fi) are too
weak to cause biological effects, I point them to any number
of electro-therapeutic devices, such as pulsed high-frequency
Andrew Goldsworthy, PhD biologist, UK:
Like mobile phone signals, Wi-Fi signals can be expected
to cause cell membranes to leak and calcium ions to flow
through them in a relatively uncontrolled way. In the
classroom, this may result in children’s brains losing the
Given that humans have existed for well over 150,000 years,
electrical and wireless technologies are very recent developments. We became able to generate and manipulate electricity
only two hundred years ago. Yet our global economic, medical,
educational, utility, military and other systems now depend
on digital electronics. Most people who are alive now cannot
imagine life without them or a mobile phone.
Electricity, electronics, and wireless devices have created
profound benefits for humanity. They have also created hazards
for our health and for wildlife.
Consider this book a forum that introduces vocabulary,
personal experiences, scientific studies, questions, and solutions
about electrosmog.
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ability to concentrate. Wi-Fi should therefore be considered an impediment to learning, rather than an aid. Wi-Fi may be particularly
hazardous to pregnant teachers, since exposing the brain of a fetus
or a very young child to EMR prevents normal brain development.
Autism may result.5
Effects on the nervous system are equally damaging since hyperactivity here can cause sensations such as pain, heat, cold and pins
and needles. Hyperactivity in the cells of the inner ear can cause
tinnitus (ringing in the ears). It can affect the sense of balance, causing dizziness and symptoms of motion sickness, including nausea.
Students showing any of these symptoms should be treated with
sympathy, and the Wi-Fi should be switched off.
Because of genetic and environmental variability, not everyone
will suffer the same symptoms. Some may not suffer at all. For the
sake of those who do suffer, Wi-Fi is not a good idea in schools—
or anywhere else for that matter. Hard-wired cabled access is a
healthier choice.
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In France, mobile phones are banned from primary schools, and advertising of mobile phones that targets children is prohibited.6 In March
2013, the French National Assembly voted to exercise the Precautionary
Principle, protect young children’s health and prefer cabled Internet over
Wi-Fi in schools.7
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Radio-Frequency Signals and Autism
In a 2013 paper in Pathophysiology, Harvard pediatric neurologist Dr.
Martha Herbert and BioInitiative Report coeditor Cindy Sage write that
“dramatic increases in reported Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) . . . are
coincident in time with the deployment of wireless technologies.” They outline evidence of plausible links between ASC and exposure to “low-intensity
(non-thermal)” EMF/RFR levels. For example, “EMF/RFR exposure during pregnancy may send spurious signals to developing brain cells during
pregnancy, altering brain development during critical periods, and may
increase oxidative stress and immune reactivity that can increase risk for
later developmental impairments, with further disruption later in development increasing risk, physiological dysregulation and severity of outcome.”
Herbert and Sage clarify that while their paper “does not prove that
EMF/RFR exposures cause autism . . . it does raise concerns that they
could contribute by increasing risk, and by making challenging biological
problems and symptoms worse in these vulnerable individuals.” They urge
schools, physicians and parents to take precautionary measures and provide
children wired (not wireless) learning, living, and sleeping environments.
Dr. Goldsworthy:
Some genetic forms of Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) can be
accounted for by known mutations in genetic coding for ion channels
that result in an increased background concentration of calcium in
neurons. This would be expected to lead to neuronal hyperactivity
and the formation of sometimes inappropriate synapses, which in
turn can lead to ASD.8
Before and just after birth, a child’s brain is essentially a blank
canvas. Then it goes through an intense period of becoming aware
of new sensory input—e.g., recognizing its mother’s face, her expressions, and eventually other people and their relationship to him or
her.9 During this process, the neurons in the brain make countless
new connections, and the brain stores what the child learns. After a
few months, connections that are rarely used are pruned. The patterns that remain could become hard-wired into the child’s psyche.
If the child is exposed to radio frequencies during this period,
the production of too many and often spurious signals will generate
frequent random connections. These will not be pruned, even though
they may not make sense. Because the pruning process in children
exposed to RFs may be more random, these children—who may have
more brain cells than the rest of us and may actually be savants—may
lack the mindset for normal patterns of social interaction. This may
then contribute to the various autistic spectrum disorders.
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Just How Many Children Use
Wireless Devices?
More than 75% of twelve to seventeen-year-olds own mobile phones.10
In 2011, Common Sense Media reported, in “Zero to Eight: Children’s
Media Use in America,” that 52% of all children have access to either a
smartphone (42%), a video iPod (21%), or an iPad or another tablet device
(8%). Ten percent of 0- to one-year-olds, 39% of two- to four-year-olds,
and 52% of five- to eight-year-olds have used these newer mobile devices.11
A 2011 survey by Elizabeth Englander of 20,000 students in Massachusetts found that 20% of third graders had a cell phone, 40% of fifth
graders had one, and 83% of middle schoolers had one.12
In a typical day, the average eight- to-ten-year-old spends nearly
eight hours with a variety of media; older children and teens spend more
than eleven hours per day.13 If there’s a TV in the child’s bedroom, these
figures increase; and 71% of children and teens report that they have a
TV in their bedroom.14
A bedroom TV increases a child’s risk for obesity, substance use, and
exposure to sexual content.15
Indeed, the media landscape has changed drastically in one generation.
Yet, few parents or teachers have rules about media use for the children in
their care—rules that limit exposure to EMR or violent content, or rules
that prevent or address addiction to media.
In October 2013, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a
policy statement, “Managing Media: We Need a Plan.” It recommends that
parents and pediatricians model “media diets” to help their children learn
to be selective and healthy in their consumption of media. In other words,
the AAP recommends that parents and pediatricians limit their own media
use in order to help children limit their use. The AAP recommends that
entertainment screen time be limited to less than one or two hours per
day. For children under two, the AAP discourages screen media exposure.
Cellular Antennas on School Grounds and
Rooftops
How many cellular antennas have been installed on school grounds and
rooftops? What impact do they have on children’s long-term health? How
can we decrease or eliminate cell towers on school campuses?
For now, these questions have no answers.
In September 2006, the Healthy Schools Network (HSN), a national
environmental not-for-profit corporation dedicated to assuring every
child and school employee an environmentally safe and healthy school,
submitted an amicus curiae brief to advise the U.S. Supreme Court of the
need for enforcement of a court-mandated Environmental Impact Study
(EIS) before the FCC deployed new Advanced Wireless Services. HSN was
“quite concerned that a significant threat to the health of school children
and personnel is posed by RF radiation from cell towers placed on or near
schools or day centers.”
Healthy Schools Network urged the Court to act by the Precautionary
Principle. It illuminated that by ignoring the National Environmental
Policy Act requirement of an EIS, the FCC risked biological harm to the
country’s 54 million vulnerable children.16
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The Court decided not to hear the Healthy Schools Network’s case.
In the Environmental Protection Agency’s February 8, 2012, draft of
State School Environmental Health Guidelines, the following “common
environmental health issues in K-12 schools” are discussed: routine cleaning and maintenance, mold and moisture, chemicals and environmental
contaminants, good ventilation and pests and reducing pesticide use.”
Health hazards related to magnetic fields from dirty power and RFs from
mobile phones, laptops and pads, Wi-Fi, cellular antennas, and “smart”
meters are not mentioned.
Parents, Take Note
The American Academy of Pediatrics and Kaiser Permanente warn that
too much screen time is associated with children’s violent behavior, poor
school performance, lower reading scores, sleep pattern disturbances,
obesity, and bad habits later in life such as tobacco and alcohol abuse.17
Kaiser recommends limiting screen time to less than two hours a day for
teens, less than one hour a day for children ages three through twelve,
and no screen time for children under three. To reduce screen time,
Kaiser suggests:
turning the TV off during meals
keeping TVs, computers and video game consoles out of kids’ bedrooms
keeping cell phones and iPods out of bedrooms at night
not using screen time as a reward
exercising as a family by walking, riding bikes, or playing sports
together
encouraging your children to write a story or create an art project.18
Sandi Maurer, EMFsafetynetwork.org:
Throughout the U.S., schools have begun providing children with
wireless computer tablets for learning and testing. New, stronger
routers are being installed in classrooms. The Los Angeles Unified
School District is issuing wireless iPads, even to elementary-aged
students. This push for computers in the classroom is part of Common Core State Standards, the new federal curriculum. It eliminates
community-based planning. It brings computer testing into schools
and gives the government a new tool to track and profile children.
Few parents (and educators) are well informed about the issues.
For example, in the Fall of 2013, a Sebastopol, California, School
Board received funding to upgrade their computer system. As Director of the EMF Safety Network and a parent, I presented the School
Board with expert science and medical warnings that RF radiation
emitted by routers and wireless computers can cause learning,
concentration, memory and many other serious health problems.
I asked the Board to apply the Precautionary Principle and
create a hard-wired computer lab that would provide safer, faster
and more secure Internet access, since all children are at risk in a
wireless environment. Children who already experience headaches,
heart palpitations, seizures, EMF sensitivity and/or who have medical implants are at even greater risk. Such children may be isolated
from peers when computers are used; or school may become inaccessible to them.
Dozens of other parents and teachers signed a letter stating, “Key
to the (children’s) professional success, social integration and economic sustainability, and therefore their health, will be their ability
to navigate the world of technology.” These well-intentioned parents
urged the school board to invest “in computer infrastructure that is
portable, wireless and cost effective.”
The Board approved the wireless plan.
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Notes
1S. Milham, MD, MPH, Dirty Electricity, iUniverse.com, 2010.
2S. Leea et al, “2.45 GHz radio frequency fields alter gene expression in cultured human
cells,” FEBS Letters, vol. 579 (2005): 4,829.
3C. Reese and M. Havas, Public Health SOS, 2009.
4J. Nelson, “Jumping off the wireless bandwagon,” The Monitor, Canadian Center for Policy
Alternatives, 3-1-2011; also see www.safeschool.ca.
5J. F. Krey, “Molecular mechanisms of autism: A possible role for Ca2+ signaling,” Current
Opinion in Neurobiology, vol. 17 , no. 1 (2007): 112–119.
6See www.lesondesmobiles.fr/.
7See www.cnetfrance.fr/news/lesdesputes-ne-veulent-pas-de-wi-fi-dans-les-establissementsscolaires-39788397.htm.
8T. Hawley and M. Gunner, “How early experiences affect brain development” (2000), http://
tinyurl.com/5u23ae.
9P. R. Huttenlocher and A. S. Dabholkar, “Regional differences in synaptogenesis in human
cerebral cortex,” Journal of Comparative Neurology, vol. 387, no. 2 (1997): 167–178.
10See http://www.pewinternet.org/2010/04/20/teens-and-mobile-phones/.
11See www.commonsensemedia.org/research/zero-eight-childrens-media-use-america.
12E. K. Englander, “Research findings: MARC 2011 survey grades 3–12”: http://vcc.bridgew.
edu/marc_reports/2.
13V. Rideout, “Generation M2: Media in the lives of 8- to 18-year-olds,” Kaiser Family Foundation, 2010; www.kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/8010.pdf
14Ibid.
15A. E. Staiano et al, “Television, adiposity and cardiometabolic risk in children and adolescents,” American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 44, no. 1 (2013): 40–47; C. Jackson et
al, “A TV in the bedroom: Implications for viewing habits and risk behaviors during early
adolescence,” Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, vol. 52, no. 3 (2008): 349–367;
A. M. Adachi-Mejia et al, “Children with a TV in their bedroom at higher risk for being
overweight,” International Journal of Obesity, vol. 31, no. 44 (2007): 644–651; J. L. Kim et
al, “Sexual readiness, household policies and other predictors of adolescents’ exposure to
sexual content in mainstream entertainment television,” Journal of Media Psychology, vol. 8,
no. 4 (2006): 449–471; E. L. Gruber et al, “Private television viewing, parental supervision,
and sexual and substance use risk behaviors in adolescents,” Journal of Adolescent Health,
vol. 36, no. 2 (2005): 107.
16“Brief of Healthy Schools Network, Inc. as Amicus curiae in support of Petitioner Maria
Gonzales,” US Supreme Court, 06–175, 9-5-2006.
17A-M. Tobin, “Limit screen time for healthier kids” (search at kaiserpermanente.org); V. C.
Strasburger and B. J. Wilson, Children, Adolescents, and the Media, Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage, 2002, pp. 73ff.
18A-M. Tobin, ibid.
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From
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Written by Luke Fischer
Illustrated by Stephanie Young and Tim Smith
The Blue Path
In a land very different from our own, a small girl made her way through a blue forest.
It was nighttime and the forest was completely still. The trunks of the trees were deep
blue, like the sea, and the path she walked was covered with blue leaves. No sound could
be heard other than the quiet shuffle of leaves at her feet. The girl walked calmly. She
was not at all afraid. Now and then, she looked up to observe the curved blue wood
of the branches and the stars peering through gaps in the canopy. She wore a dress as
white as the stars, and its golden threads sparkled faintly.
Further down the path, the girl noticed a glimmer of light in the center of a clearing encircled by
the tallest blue trees. When she drew near, she discovered a white chest, nested among the fallen
blue leaves. The chest glowed like a pearl in moonlight (though it was a moonless night!). A slim
gold latch held fast its pointed lid. Bending low, the girl lifted the latch and carefully raised the lid
with both hands, all the while not making the slightest sound. Light shone from the chest, even
more brightly than before. Inside was a trove of precious things—bracelets, broaches, necklaces,
rings—set with gems and wrought of fine silver and gold. The chest cast a warm glow onto the
girl as she reached in and drew out a single, silver-hued ring. She held it up; the silver shimmered
like moonlight on water. She closed the chest
as gently as she had opened it, and slipped the
ring onto her finger. At that moment a hidden
star peeked through the foliage of a near tree,
and the ring glittered.
The girl resumed her journey along the forest
path. Now the way was like a temple passage,
with pillars of blue trunks and a ceiling of arching boughs. Still, not a breeze could be felt, not
a sound could be heard. The sky, the earth, the
trees were quiet, as if listening. The girl walked
on as calmly as before, and soon she arrived at
her home. It was a simple dwelling, a timber
hut with a single room. At the center on the
floor sat a willow basket, lined with blue velvet
cloth. The girl took off the ring and placed it in
the basket, where it twinkled like a jewel on the
ocean floor. Then she lay down to rest on her
bed of straw and drifted into a peaceful sleep.
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Extract from
Why Cleaning Has Meaning
Bringing Wellbeing Into Your Home
Linda Thomas
From Chapter 7
Our Relation to the
Objects Around Us
It is important to be aware of the things that surround us in our daily lives. Certain things may
distress us while others are a constant source of joy.
Whether we are aware of it or not, there is a relationship between human beings and the inanimate
objects surrounding us.
Favourite Objects
Of course, there are many examples to prove how beneficially
very well loved and cared for objects can influence us. Shortly
after I started my company, an elderly lady asked me if I could
help her clean her house every two weeks. On my first visit, I
almost lost courage. The first thing I noticed, were well over a
hundred small porcelain figurines covering almost every free
surface in the living room. They were tiny figures of people,
animals, dwarves, even trees, mushrooms, a small house, and
suchlike. This is going to be a very time-consuming task,
I thought to myself. She showed me the whole house and
finally, back in the living room, she very lovingly pointed to
the figures and said, ‘Please don’t touch the little ones, Linda,
but do take special care of the spaces between the groups of
figurines.’ I realised that the lady was intimately connected to
each one of these little characters; they were very much part
of her daily life. Each small group represented a fairy tale or
a specific image.
Such objects are alive, imbued with love, and give strength
and joy to their owner. I soon realised that I was looking forward to visiting her house, just to discover the new groupings
and images that would be there to greet me.
The Value of Interest
After reading the following passage by Rudolf Steiner, a totally new dimension opened up for me regarding my dealing
with things.
The sentient soul is what enables the human being to experience the world of objects, to come into a relationship
with the objects rather than passing them by unknowingly. . . . What is it that enables us to have a relationship
with our surroundings? It is what we may call our interest in things. This word ‘interest’ expresses something
that in a moral sense is extremely significant. It is much
more important to bear in mind the moral significance
of interest than to devote oneself to a multitude of moral
axioms, which may be beautiful or perhaps also trivial
and sanctimonious. Our moral impulses are in fact never
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guided better than when
we take proper interest in
objects or beings. Please
think about this. Because
we spoke in yesterday’s
lecture of the deeper
meaning of love, I will
not be misunderstood
when I say that even
the usual, oft-repeated saying of ‘love,
love, and love again,’
cannot replace the
moral impulse that
lies behind the little
word ‘interest’.
. . . When we extend our interests, when we find opportunity to enter with understanding into the objects and
beings of the world, our inner forces are called forth.
If we take an interest in a person, our compassion is
called forth in an appropriate manner. . . . Progress is
not made by the mere preaching of universal love, but
by the extension of our interest further and further, so
that we increasingly come to be interested in and to understand people with widely different temperaments and
personalities, with widely different racial and national
characteristics, with widely different religious and philosophical views. Right understanding, right interest, calls
forth from the soul the right moral conduct.1
This passage helped me to understand why people who
do not engage with their environment and its objects often
suffer because of their surroundings. Repeated failure in
attempting to tidy and create order can lead to depression.
To counteract depression it is helpful to develop a lively and
genuine interest for what surrounds us. The inner flexibility
that arises from such an interest can stimulate us to begin to
improve conditions, and can give us the necessary constancy
and perseverance.
But how can housework become a creative activity? In The
Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard describes it most beautifully.
Objects that are cherished in this way really are born of
an intimate light, and they attain to a higher degree of
reality than indifferent objects, or those that are defined
by geometric reality. For they produce a new reality of
being, and they take their place not only in an order but
in a community of order. From one object in a room to
another, housewifely care weaves the ties that unite a very
ancient past to the new epoch. The housewife awakens
furniture that was asleep.2
Why Cleaning Has Meaning
What a lovely thought, that I am able to create a new object by lovingly caring for it! Our soul accompanies this process, our touch bestows
warmth. Thus we may imbue the thing that we hold in our hands with a
touch of spirit. Something human is transferred to the object and enters
it; and, in return, it makes a positive and beneficial impact on the human
being. Rudolf Steiner expressed this in a verse:
Seek the truly practical material life, but seek it in such a way
That it does not numb you to the spirit that works within it.
Seek the spirit, but not out of spiritual lust or spiritual egoism;
But seek it rather because you want to apply it selflessly in the practical
life of the material world.
Turn to the ancient principle:
‘Spirit is never without matter,
Matter never without spirit.’
And say to yourself,
We will do everything material in light of the spirit,
And we will seek the light of the spirit in such a way
That it enkindles warmth in us for our practical deeds.
Spirit that is guided by us into matter,
Matter that is transformed by us to reveal the spirit,
Whereby matter presses out of the spirit;
Matter, which receives from us revealed spirit,
Spirit, which is pressed by us towards matter,
These create the living existence
That can lead humanity to real progress
To the kind of progress that can only be yearned for
By the highest strivings in the deepest regions of the souls of our time.3
What We Give to Objects
Observing an old servant at work, the French poet Henri Bosco (1888–
1976) wrote:
The soft wax entered into the polished substance under the pressure
of hands and the effective warmth of a woolen cloth. Slowly the tray
took on a dull luster. It was as though the radiance induced by magnetic rubbing emanated from the hundred-year-old sapwood, from
the very heart of the dead tree, and spread gradually, in the form of
light, over the tray. The old fingers possessed of every virtue, the broad
palm, drew from the solid block with its inanimate fibers, the latent
powers of life itself. This was creation of an object, a real act of faith,
taking place before my enchanted eyes.4
Bosco also speaks about the integration of awareness into the humblest
of occupations when he describes the work of his old faithful servant,
Sidoine.
This vocation for happiness, so far from prejudicing her practical life,
nurtured its action. When she washed a sheet or a tablecloth, when
she polished a brass candlestick, little movements of joy mounted
from the depths of her heart, enlivening her household tasks. She
did not wait to finish these tasks before withdrawing into herself,
where she could contemplate to her heart’s content the supernatural
images that dwelt there. Indeed, figures from this land appeared to
her familiarly, however commonplace to work she was doing, and
without in the least of seeming to dream, she washed, dusted and
swept in the company of angels.5
When we earnestly perceive things or events in the world, we connect
with their essence. Through connecting with something, we share with it
some of our essence. The world responds to the human being and shares
its own nature with us. Communication takes place and objects and spaces
begin to tell us something. Thus we bestow the strength of our self, the
warmth of our soul, as well as our life force directly to the space or object
in our care. We give of ourselves, and a part of us lives in that object or
space. Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov spoke of the transformation of objects.
Should a distinction be made between sacred and profane objects?
You live in a house or an apartment. In this flat or this house, there
are several rooms in which you have placed all sorts of objects. The
reason you have put them there is that they are either useful to you
or you love them, which puts you in daily contact with them. So why
not think of consecrating these objects. If you dedicate them to the
good and to the light, they will have a beneficial effect on you and
your family. And once they are made sacred, you should treat them
with respect, with caution, because the way you treat them will reflect
back on you. Even if this idea is not familiar to you, try to understand
that by means of these considerations, you can transform the objects
surrounding you into sacred objects, which are connected to heaven,
and that the beneficial energy that flows through them, is also of
benefit to you.6
Objects have their dignity and their rightful place, on a small or large
scale. Dieter Zimmermann, an artist who creates works of art from bits
and pieces of everyday objects discarded by our affluent society, writes
on his website that he aims, ‘To elevate the rejected to a new dignity.’7
Notes
1 Steiner, Rudolf, The Spiritual Foundation of Morality, lecture of May 30, 1912.
2 Bachelard, Gaston, The Poetics of Space.
3 Rudolf Steiner concluded a public lecture about education on September 24, 1919, with
this verse. Translated by Malcolm Gardner.
4 Bosco, Henri, Le Jardin d’Hyacinthe, p. 192.
5 Bosco, Henri, Le Jardin d’Hyacinthe, p. 173.
6 Aïvanhov, Mikhaël, Daily meditations.
7 Zimmermann, Dieter, www.dizi.de.
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Nutrition for Enlightened Parenting
. . . Human beings need the plants not only for
food but also for their inner life, to nourish within
themselves the feelings and experiences necessary
for a soul life. They need the impressions from the
plant world on the physical plane if their life of
soul is to be fresh and healthy. This is something
that cannot be overemphasized. A deficiency in
the human soul becomes quickly apparent if it is
closed off from the fresh, vitalizing influence of
plants. One who is possessed of deeper insight will
always perceive a certain inner deficiency in those
who, through city life, are practically cut off from direct
contact with the plant world. It is absolutely true that the
soul suffers harm from the loss of the spontaneous joy
and delight that arises from direct contact with the plant
world. This loss is one of the shadow sides of modern
civilization, found mainly in large cities. We know that
there are people who can scarcely distinguish a grain of
oat from a grain of wheat; yet being able to do so is part
of a healthy human nature. . . .1
This is why I always tell my city friends: Please move, for
the sake of your children. Go to a smaller city or community.
I feel much more invigorated living in the north, here in the
cold climate, especially in the winter. In the south, the far
south, my body becomes lazier, less energetic, more likely to
take it easy, eat a banana off the tree and relax; never mind
about tomorrow. Here in the north there is no tomorrow if
one does not work at keeping warm. One would simply die; so
there is something valid about living in the north to become
sturdier, more awake. . . .
In the mountains, everyone is nourished by living and
simply being here. We breathe the fresh air, drink the pure
glacial waters, spend time outside, look at the stars, cut wood
to keep warm, live on very simple foods because that is all there
is, sit by the fire, and spend plenty of time reading during the
long nights. The children play outside, enjoy the cold, and are
not separated from nature as are their little counterparts in
the large cities.
I once invited a family from China to our farm in the
Midwest. They had one son who was exceedingly bright. The
family had always lived in Shanghai in tall buildings. This
ten-year-old boy had never interacted with the country. He
would not come out of the car for fear of the dog, and he could
not walk around the garden because of the bees, butterflies,
and other creatures that flew near him. He was afraid of so
much life around him. I tried to have him touch the plants,
the leaves, but he could not; it was too much life. Touching a
little worm was out of the question. He had been completely
weaned from nature and was intensely afraid. His domain
was computers, which he loved, along with other machines.
He said he wanted to become a train expert, making time
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schedules and the like, dealing only with numbers and
machines. Observing that
particular child, I was devastated, stunned, and felt
terrible that his parents
had helped in the development of such a little
being. There seemed
no life within his soul,
and I wondered what
would happen to him
as an adult. He was an
example of intellectgenius gone wild.
How many of these little beings are
born now in our world with no contact with nature
whatsoever? To them food comes denatured in packages;
machines surround them and only their fingers and their intellect get any exercise. Where are their feelings? Can they have
feelings for others? Certainly not. Where are their souls? They
are only intelligence, intellect. What if they become brilliant
doctors or engineers? What will they invent? This is what we
foster when we raise children in artificial settings. We create
monsters rather than human beings.
This was an extreme case, but there exists all sorts in
between. As responsible mothers and fathers, we must think
about the implications of our choices. Yes, I love the city; it
is a wonderful place, but is it the best place for a child? How
do we balance the negative forces with positive ones? Most
people like their comfort zone, their selfish goals, and forget
the hardship they impose on their families, whether it involves
employment or a reluctance to give up a comfortable life in the
city. If one knows the effect of such a lifestyle then precautions
can be taken to counteract the negative effects, so that the city
life can be less harmful.
Because I had been brought up in the country, on the
outskirts of cities, I chose to live in the country as soon as I
was able to afford it. After having children there was only one
choice, and that was living in the country. We did live on the
outskirts of bigger cities for a few years, but every weekend
we spent walking in beautiful national parks. When my son
reached the age of ten he was full of energy, and sitting in
school was difficult for him. So I looked in the local newspaper and found an old twenty-three-foot sailboat. We bought
it and put it in at the Niagara Falls sailing club. There were at
least fourteen knots of currents in that little harbor. Before
we sailed, my son and I took a rather difficult class in boating
from the Great Lakes Coast Guard. We got our certificates
and went sailing in the spring. The first day was a challenge,
as I had never really sailed a big boat, but we all took to it.
Little by little we ventured into the large lake. My son picked
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it up quickly, and it was just what he needed, to be confronted with the
danger of the elements: strong winds, currents, and the rocking boat. His
sister was not too enthusiastic, but we were all excellent swimmers, so I
never worried. Providing these challenges to that particular child saved
me lots of headaches. He was fully engaged, happy, and could, even as
a small child, be involved in something meaningful. Later he would not
need to use drugs or drive fast cars; his needs had been met by nature’s
forces, by the elements, which demanded quick thinking, strength, courage, and responsibility.
I tell this story because parents will have to decide what it is they will
provide to meet their child’s needs. Mothers who listen to their children
will know what they need, and they will provide it. The boat was not very
expensive, so cost was not an issue in my case. Going for walks and hikes
cost nothing, and bicycling, cross-country skiing, swimming, running,
ice skating, gardening, owning a dog (or two, depending on where one
lives) are inexpensive activities.
In my case I was aware of who the child was that had been sent to
me. When I was carrying him I was living alone in the mountains of
Vermont, in Robert Frost country. I had a small but beautiful rented
chalet, heated only by wood. I spent the last few months of my pregnancy
living there alone amid beautiful pine trees and lots of snow. I had no
energy whatsoever for reading my usual piles of books on philosophy,
psychology, or religion. Instead I knitted lots of colorfully designed
baby clothes and read all sorts of books about the sea. I could not get
enough of them, one after another. I read Tristan Jones’ sea adventures,
as well as the poetry of Blake, while waiting for this child to be born. So
I knew intuitively that this little being would love the sea, and now he
is a fisherman in Alaska and Washington State and has just purchased
his third boat. He is an accomplished tall-ship sea captain, as well as an
engineer of boat systems, a musician, and a minstrel.
Because I had prepared myself for this birth, I knew who this little
being was. He was coming to me from far in the past, and I was there to
receive him and give him what he needed. I was a vegetarian and so was
he. We were both extremely healthy. For the first three years of his life, his
karma and mine did not allow him to be with his father.
This is just a small example for mothers to be, to learn to be, extremely
attentive to who the little being is that is coming to them as if by magic.
We must recover the sense of magic that happens when two beings meet
and decide to have a child, or better, when the child has decided to come
and is there for the two beings to accept. It might mean that the child will
have only one parent, and that is also karma.
It might be that this child requires the mother to eat meat or perhaps
not to eat meat. Many spiritual, religious traditions tell the young couple
that they need to make their body as clean as they can for the welcoming
of the child. This requires no immoderate drinking for at least a year, if
not more, before conception; a life of quiet meditation, even amid the
busy lifestyle of the city; cleanliness of habits; good natural foods; plenty
of rest; good books to prepare for the child and to foster idealistic goals.
Then the child to come will enter this world in a nest of warmth and love,
which is a great gift.
Notes
1 Rudolf Steiner. Macrocosm and Microcosm, Vienna, Mar. 31, 1910. London: Rudolf Steiner
Press, 1968, pp. 189–190 (trans. revised).
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147 Traditional Stories for Primary
School Children to Retell 4
Adams, Judith 14
Addictive Behaviour in Children and
Young Adults 66
Adolphi, Sybille 45
Advent and Christmas Stories 13
Advent Craft and Activity Book, The 42
Aeppli, Willi 60, 77
African and Caribbean Celebrations 43
Age of Discovery, The 76
Age of Revolution, The 76
Alcott, Amos Bronson 58
Al-Gailani, Noorah 43
Allen, Jon 46
Allerton, Jill 47
All the Dear Little Animals 28
All Year Round 43
Am I Really Different? 29
Ancient Greece 76
Ancient Mythologies 76
Ancient Rome 76
Andando Caminos 5
Andersen, Hans Christian 11, 34
Anschutz, Marieke 60
Anthroposophical Care for the Elderly 68
Anthroposophical Therapeutic Speech
67
Any Room for Me? 29
Apple Cake, The 30
Arbuthnott, Gill 38
Archipova, Anastasiya 11, 34, 35
Around the Year 21
Art as Spiritual Activity 65
Art of Acting, The 4
Artzybasheff, Boris 33
Astronomy for Young and Old 7
Auer, Elizabeth 53
Aunt Brown’s Birthday 22
Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt
Lavender 22
Auragole and the Last Battle 37
Auragole of Mattelmead 37
Auragole of the Mountains 37
Auragole of the Way 37
Authentic Parenting 70
Autism 67
Autumn 15, 36
Avison, Kevin 6, 77
Awakening to Child Health 55
Baadh Garrett, Valerie 9
Bacchus, Gill 53
Baking Bread with Children 46
Balance in Teaching 73
Baluschek, Hans 31
Bamford, Christopher 74, 75
Bang, Jan Martin 68
Baric, Maija 51
Barnes, Henry 72
Barton, Matthew 36, 52, 55, 56
Bassewitz, Gerdt von 31
Bauer, Dietrich 71
Bauer, John 35
Becoming a Family 3
Bedtime Storytelling 69
Beecoming Sophie 37
Beejum Book, The 37
Being Human 67
Bekman, Adriaan 6
Beneath 38
Bennett, Susanne 53
Bentheim, Tineke van 56
Berger, Petra 49
Berger, Thomas 42, 49
Beskow, Elsa 20, 21, 22
Biedermann, Edith 44
Biodynamic Food and Cookbook 52
Birth and Breastfeeding 54
Birthday 14
Birthday Book, The 43
Blackwood, John 76
Bloom, Margaret 9, 47
Blue Forest, The 1
Boekelaar, Els 35
Bogade, Maria 27
Bonin, Dietrich von 67
Boogerd, Cornelis 64
Borsky, Bari 70
Botany 76
Botman, Loes 15
Boys Will Be Boys 69
Bramley, Sarah 33
Braun-Fock, Beatrice 24
Breathing Circle, The 57
Bremen Town Musicians, The 34
Breslin, Theresa 27, 35
Bringing the Best Out in Boys 69
Briswalter, Maren 11
Brothers and Sisters 70
Brothers Grimm, The 34, 35
Brown, George Mackay 37
Bryan, Angela 14
Bryan, Daniel C. 14
Bryer, Estelle 13, 14
Budgett, W. 5
Bühler, Walther 2
Burton, Michael 36
Busch-Schumann, Ruthild 28
Calf for Christmas, A 41
Calm Kids 70
Camps, Annegret 68
Cansino, Raoul 75
Can’t-Dance-Cameron 27
Capel, Evelyn Francis 4
Care and Development of the Human
Senses, The 77
Carey, Diana 43
Carigiet, Alois 30
Carlgren, Frans 65
Carl Larsson’s Home, Family and Farm
39
Carpenter’s Daughter, The 14
Celebrating Festivals with Children 50
Celtic Wonder Tales 33
Child is Born, A 54
Children and Their Temperaments 60
Children of Hat Cottage, The 22
Children of the Forest 21
Children’s Creative Play 58
Children’s Games in Street and
Playground 50
Children’s Party Book, The 46
Children’s Year, The 43
Children Who Communicate Before
They Are Born 71
Children with Special Needs 68
Child’s Changing Consciousness 74
Childs, Gilbert 60, 64
Childs, Sylvia 60
Child with Special Needs, The 67
Chönz, Selina 30
Christ Legends 41
Christmas Angels, The 40
Christmas Craft Book 42
Christmas Plays from Oberufer 42
Christmas Story Book, The 42
Christopher’s Harvest Time 21
Cinderella 34
Clouder, Christopher 61, 65
Cohen, Warren Lee 46
Cohn, Diana 25
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 39
Collis, J. 72
Collison, Charlene 4
Colum, Padraic 33
Come Follow Me 50
Coming of the Unicorn, The 33
Community Cooks, The 53
Compani, Marie-Luise 66
Cooking for the Love of the World 52
Cook, Wendy E. 52
Cooper, Stephanie 43
Corbett, Pie 4
Córdova, Amy 25
Cowan, Thomas S. 56
Crafts through the Year 49
Creative Felt 45
Creative Form Drawing 7
Creative Speech 5
Creative Wool 44
Crebbin, Jennifer 51
Creeger, Catherine E. 55, 67, 73
Cree, Jon 4, 8
Crossley, Diana 71
Curious Fish, The 20
Dahl, Erhard 5
Davidow, Shelley 31
Davy, Annie 8
Davy, Gudrun 70
DeLisa, Patricia 34
Demeter Cookbook, The 52
Denjean-von Stryk, Barbara 67
Developing Child, The 60
Discussions with Teachers 72
Dodd, Emily 27
Dohm, Christel 42
Donaldson, David 36
Don, Lari 27, 38
Douch, Geoffrey 56
Dragon Feathers 30
Dragon Stoorworm, The 27
Drawing with Hand, Head, and Heart 50
Dream Song of Olaf Asteson, The 42
Dreißig, Georg 41
Drescher, Daniela 16, 17, 35, 40
Druitt, Ann 43
Druon, Maurice 37
Dugin, Andrei 30
Dugina, Olga 30, 35
Duin, Veronika van 69
Dusíková, Maja 34
Dyslexia 67
Earth, Water, Fire and Air 49
Edmunds, Francis 61
Educating through Art 65
Educating through Arts and Crafts 77
Educating Traumatized Children 66
Education: An Introductory Reader 61
Education As a Force for Social Change
72
Education for Adolescents 73
Education for Special Needs 67
Education of the Child, The 75
Education Towards Freedom 65
Eichenauer, Gabriele Gernhard 29
Eiff, Tilde von 77
Eight-Year-Old Legend Book, The 32
Electronic Silent Spring, An 1
Eliot, Winslow 53
Ellersiek, Wilma 13
Ellis, Mark 37
Elsa Beskow 2015 Calendar 10
Elsa Beskow Baby Book, The 20
Elsner, Peter 8
Emily and Daisy 20
Encountering the Self 64
Engaged Community 66
Eriksson, Eva 12, 28
Erixon, Ulf 9
Essence of Waldorf Education, The 59
Essentials of Education, The 75
Esterl, Arnica 30
Eurythmy Therapy 68
Evans, Michael 55
Evans, Russell 57
Everett, Roland 74
Expanding Tonal Awareness 6
Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner 73
Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the
Beautiful Lily, The 39
Fallon, Sally 56
Favourite Grimm’s Tales 35
Featherlight 29
Felce, Josie 62
Feltcraft 49
Felt Farm, A 44
Festivals, Family, and Food 43
Festivals Together 43
Findus and the Fox 19
Findus at Christmas 41
Findus Goes Camping 19
Findus Moves Out 19
Findus Plants Meatballs 11
Finger Strings 46
Finser, Torin 2, 63
First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled
Beasts 38
First Book of Knitting for Children, A 47
First Christmas, The 40
First Three Years of the Child, The 61
Fischer, Luke 1
Fischer, Ute 47
Fitzjohn, Sue 43
Five Plays for Waldorf Festivals 77
Flaxman, Andrew 34
Flight of the Golden Bird 33
Florina and the Wild Bird 30
Flowers’ Festival, The 21
Food Full of Life 53
Foodwise 52
Forrer, Elena 5
Forrester, Margaret 27
Foundations of Curative Eurythmy 67
Foundations of Human Experience,
The 72
Fourfold Path to Healing, The 56
Free to Learn 57
Frog, Bee and Snail Look For Snow 29
Frog Prince, The 14
Frommherz, Andrea 44
Fynes-Clinton, Christine 43
Games Children Sing and Play 9
Gardening With Young Children 51
Gateways 36
Gavin, Jamila 36
Genius of Language, The 73
Genius of Natural Childhood, The 64
Genius of Play, The 57
Geology and Astronomy 76
Gersie, Alida 4
Giddens, Craig 72
Gill, Roy 38
Giraud, Robert 12
Gladstone, Francis 77
Glanville, Caroline 43
Glöckler, Michaela 55, 67
Gnome Craft Book, The 49
Goddard Blythe, Sally 54, 57, 64
Goebel, Wolfgang 55
Goerg, Hartmut 71
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 39
Goldberg, Raoul 55, 66
Goldilocks and the Three Bears 28
Gollogly, Eugene 25
Goodbye, Mr. Muffin 28
Goodnight 15
Good Sleep Guide for You and Your Baby,
The 54
Goral, Mary 61
Goran’s Great Escape 23
Gosse, Bonnie 47
Gradenwitz-Koehler, Erika 3
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Grand Metamorphosis, A 59
Green Fingers and Muddy Boots 51
Grigaff, Anne-Dorthe 47
Gross, Stephanie 58
Grunditz, Anette 9
Guéret, Frédérique 48
Guide to Child Health, A 55
Guillain, Adam 4
Hagenhoff, Brigitte 68
Handbook for Waldorf Class Teachers, A
77
Haney, Judith 70
Hannah on the Farm 15
Hansel and Gretel 34
Happy Child, Happy Home 3
Harrison, Patrick 8
Harstein Cohn, Jutka 53
Harvest Story, The 14
Harvey-Zahra, Lou 3
Harwood, A. C. 6
Haseloff, Ulrike 34
Hay for My Ox and Other Stories 32
Healing for Body, Soul and Spirit 55
Healing Stories for Challenging
Behaviour 69
Healthy Body, Healthy Brain 68
Healthy Medicine 56
Heaven on Earth 58
Hello Farm, How Do You Do? 15
Helpful Elves, The 24
Helping Children to Overcome Fear 57
Henderson, Angela 54
Herbert, Tom 46
Heuninck, Ronald 10, 41
Heyduck-Huth, Hilde 40
Hichtum, Nienke van 30
Hildreth, Lisa 53
Hobbs-Vijendran, Marie 3
Hoffman, Carl 73
Hoffmeister, Max 71
Hogenboom, Marga 67
Holistic Special Education 68
Hollingsworth, Sue 51
Homemaking as a Social Art 69
Home Nursing for Carers 56
Homer’s Odyssey 32
Honeybloom, Shannon 70
House, Richard 58
Howard, Michael 65
How Does My Garden Grow? 10
Howell, Alice O. 37, 41, 58
How I Feel 71
How Like an Angel Came I Down 58
How to Move like a Gardener 39
Huff, Andrea 53
Human Being and the Animal World,
The 76
Human Values in Education 75
Hummel, N. 5
Hunter, Mollie 38
Hunt, Skip 70
I Am Different from You 59
Ice Horse, The 28
Illustrated Treasury of Grimm’s Fairy
Tales, An 35
Illustrated Treasury of Hans Christian
Andersen’s Fairy Tales, An 11
Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and
Fairy Tales, An 35
In Blue Mountains 31
Incarnating Child, The 61
Ingraham Barnes, Diane 62
Initiative 63
In Search of Ethical Leadership 63
Inside an Autistic World 68
In the Land of Elves 17
In the Land of Fairies 17
In the Land of Merfolk 17
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In the Land of Twilight 23
In the Light of a Child 36
Iscador 56
Islamic Year, The 43
Jackman, Shayne 5
Jackson, Robin 68
Jacquet, Hélène 42
Jaffke, Freya 48, 49, 50, 57
James, Van 50
Jantzen, Cornelia 67
Jarman, Heather 14
Jenike, Michael A. 70
Jenkinson, Sally 57
Johnson, Gail 43
Jonathan’s Journey 40
Jones, M. 5
Jordan, Janet 42
Journey through Time in Verse and
Rhyme, A 36
Jumping Mouse 31
Karvonen, Inkeri 41
Katy’s Christmas Gift 12
Kiel-Hinrichsen, Monika 70
Kiersch, Johannes 5
Kindergarten Education 57
Kingdom of Beautiful Colours, The 32
Kingdom of Childhood, The 75
King of Ireland’s Son, The 33
Kirchner-Bockholt, Margarete 67
Klaassen, Sandra 27, 28
Klinghardt, Dietrich 56
Klinting, Lars 29
Knijpenga, Siegwart 33
Knitted Animals 47
Knitting for Children 47
Knottles, The 30
Koepke, Hermann 64, 66
König, Karl 61, 67, 70
Koopmans, Loek 12, 26, 29, 40
Kopisch, August 24
Kornberger, Horst 62
Kovacs, Charles 76
Kraul, Walter 7, 49
Kroll, Linda 24
Kügelgen, Helmut von 77
Kühlewind, Georg 60
Kuiper, Nannie 26
Kurz, Susan 37
Kurzyca, Krystyna Emilia 31
Kutik, Christiane 55
Kutzli, Rudolf 7
Kwant, Admar 15
Lagerlöf, Selma 29, 41
Lai, Hsin-Shih 34
Land, Matthew 27
Land of Long Ago, The 20
Langman, Dawn 4
Lang, Peter 66
Language Teaching in Steiner-Waldorf
Schools 5
Lara’s First Christmas 41
Large, Judy 43
Large, Martin 60
Larsson, Carl 39
Latessa, Shirley 37
Lathe, Robert 72, 73
Laue, Elke von 68
Laue, Hans-Broder von 68
Lawson, Polly 23
Leeuwen, M. van 48
Legends of King Arthur 32
Legends of the Norse Kings 32
Leiper, Kate 35
Le Mair, Henriette Willebeek 26
Lewis, Jenny 68
Lieberherr, Ruth 24, 30
Lievegoed, Bernard 60
Life Forces – Formative Forces 8
Lifeways 70
Light Course, The 75
Light in the Lantern, The 41
Lily the Little Princess 16
Lindgren, Astrid 23, 29, 41
Lingard, Joan 38
Little Christmas Tree, The 40
Little Fairy Can’t Sleep 16
Little Fairy’s Christmas 40
Little Fairy’s Meadow Party 16
Little Red Riding Hood 34
Little Tomte’s Christmas Wish 41
Living Kitchen, The 53
Living Literacy 64
Living with Your Body 2
Locker, Thomas 31
Lockie, Beatrys 37, 51, 69
Lohr, Lynn 25
Lombardi, Elizabeth 40
Long-Breipohl, Renate 58
Longson, Philip 27
Looking for a Fairy 14
Louhi, Kristiina 51
Luedeking, Marianne H. 31
Luke, Helen M. 71
Lundburgh, Holger 35
Luxford, Michael 68
Mackay, Janis 27, 38
Mac’s Christmas Star 27
Magical Window Stars 48
Magical Wonder Tales 32
Magic Wool 48
Magic Wool Fairies 44
Magic Wool Fruit Children 47
Magic Wool Mermaids, Fairies and
Nymphs through the Seasons 9
Mailer, Maggie 41
Making a Family Home 70
Making a Nativity Scene 13
Making Fairy Tale Scenes 45
Making Flower Children 45
Making Geometry 46
Making More Flower Children 45
Making Peg Dolls 47
Making Peg Dolls and More 9
Making Soft Toys 44
Making Waldorf Dolls 49
Making Woodland Crafts 8
Malot, Hector 37
Margulies, Paul 24
Marshall, Denise 34
Martin, David 8
Martin Ellis, Melissa 37
Martin, Michael 77
Mary’s Little Donkey 41
Mason, Caroline 14
Masters, Brien 65
Mathematics in Nature, Space, and Time
76
Matthews, Paul 62
McAlice, Jon 66
McCall Smith, Alexander 33
McCarthy, Brian 52
McKay, Elizabeth 27
McMillan, Jaimen 56
Meekelorr 37
Meereboer, Jos 68
Meijs, Jeanne 70
Mellon, Nancy 30, 50
Merlina and the Magic Spell 16
Merry, Eleanor 42
Metamorphosis in Nature and Art 8
Mhasane, Ruchi 27
Miedzian, Myriam 69
Milon and the Lion 37
Mind Blind 38
Mirocha, Paul 25
Mizon, Bob 7
Modern Art of Education, A 74
Moeskops, J. 48
Montefiore, Sophia 39
Moore, C. J. 35
Moore, Mary 31
Moore, Richard 77
Moore, Thomas 50
More Lifeways 70
More Magic Wool 48
Morrow, Joel 8
Mr. Goethe’s Garden 25
Muddles, Puddles, and Sunshine 71
Müller, Brunhild 48
Muller, Gerda 10, 15, 23, 28
Müller, Heinz 77
Muller, Hélène 12
Murphy, Christine 56
Murray, Lorraine E. 70
Muscles and Bones 76
Music through the Grades 62
Mutsaars, Anjo 46
My First Root Children 18
Myths of the World 33
Namaste! 25
Nanson, Anthony 4
Nativity Plays for Children 13
Natural Birth 54
Nature Corner, The 48
Neall, Lucinda 69
Nelson, Carol 14
Nelson Wolf, Lorraine 50
Nettle and the Butterfly, The 14
Neuschütz, Karin 44, 45, 58
Newbatt, David 39, 76
New Day, A 10
Newton, Lucy 14
Nicol, Janni 13
Nilsson, Ulf 28
Nobel, Agnes 65
Nobody’s Child 37
Nordqvist, Sven 11, 19, 40, 41
Norse Hero Tales 32
Norse Mythology 76
Nurturing Potential in the Kindergarten
Years 64
Nutrition for Enlightened Parenting 2
Odent, Michel 3, 54
Old Age 71
Oldfield, Lynn 57
Old Freedom Train 5
Olfers, Sibylle von 18
Ollie’s Ski Trip 21
Olson, Michael 71
On Christmas Eve 40
One Thousand and One Nights 35
On the Threshold of Adolescence 66
Opie, Iona 50
Opie, Peter 50
Oppenheimer, Sharifa 58
Orange Juice Peas 27
Organisations with Soul 6
Organizational Integrity 63
Oschman, James 56
Osika, Andreas 68
Osika, Erik 68
Osika, Hilke 68
Osika, Martin 68
Out of the Blue 71
Over the Hills and Far Away 35
Oxley, Paul 71
Painting and Drawing in Waldorf Schools
62
Painting with Children 48
Pamment, Katie 27
Pancakes for Findus 19
Pancake that Ran Away, The 26
Papercraft 46
Parsifal and the Search for the Grail 76
index
Parzival 39
Patten, Brian 31
Peck, Betty 57
Pelle’s New Suit 21
Perrow, Susan 69
Peter and Anneli’s Journey to the Moon
31
Peter and Lotta’s Adventure 22
Peter and Lotta’s Christmas 22
Peter in Blueberry Land 21
Peter’s Old House 21
Phases of Childhood 60
Physiology of Eurythmy Therapy, The 68
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The 11
Pietzner, Cornelius 67
Pip the Gnome 15
Poems for Younger Children 36
Porritt, Jonathon 4
Portrait of Camphill, A 68
Post, Marsha 53
Power of Stories, The 62
Practical Advice to Teachers 72
Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond 3
Primal Health 54
Princess and the Pea, The 34
Princess in the Forest, The 18
Princess Sylvie 22
Projective Geometry 7
Puppet Theatre 51
Pusch, Ruth 73
Querido, René 73, 74
Rain or Shine 10
Raising Waldorf 60
Ramsden, Ashley 51
Rawson, Martyn 6, 57, 65, 77
Ready to Learn 57
Really Weird Removals.com 38
Reinhard, Rotraud 44
Religious Education in Steiner-Waldorf
Schools 77
Reluctant Time Traveller, The 38
Renewal of Education, The 73
Renewing Education 61
Renne 28
Renovación Escolar 63
Report Verses in Rudolf Steiner’s Art of
Education 77
Reppel, Elizabeth 14
Republican Academies 77
Reuben and Barney’s Day on the Farm 26
Rhythms of Learning 65
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The 39
Rodger, Iain 55
Romer, Norah 14
Roots of Education, The 75
Rosalind and the Little Deer 22
Rose, Michael 57, 64
Roses for Isabella 25
Rowling, Marije 43
Rowling, Marjie 46
Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School 73
Ruf, Bernd 66
Ruland, Heiner 6
Saar, Margot M. 66
Sacerdoti, Daniela 38
Sacranie, Magdalene 33
Sagarin, Stephen Keith 61, 65
Salter, Joan 61
Santer, Ivor 51
Sardello, Robert 52
Saunders, Kerrie K. 52
Schaefer, Signe Elkund 70, 71
Schäfer, Christine 9, 44, 47
Schieffelin, Edward 4
Schilling, Karin V. 71
Schmidt-Brabant, Manfred 69
Schmidt, Dagmar 48
Schmidt, Dorian 8
Schmitt-Stegmann, Astrid 72
School As a Journey 63
School Renewal 63
Schubert, Jan 14
Schweizer, Sally 51, 64
Sealey, Maricristin 49
Second Classroom, A 2
Sehlin, Gunhild 41
Selg, Peter 59, 67
Selkie Girl, The 27
Set Free Childhood 60
Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book, The 32
Sewing Dolls 45
Shaw, Margaret 3
Sheppard, Kate 71
Sherpa, Ang Rita 25
Shifty Lad and the Tales He Told, The 33
Shillan, Margaret 62
Shimer, Joan Carr 9
Sierau, Christine 24
Sign of the Black Dagger, The 38
Silence Is Complicity 63
Silver Bells and Cockle Shells 26
Singer, Katie 1
Singing Year, The 43
Six Lives of Fankle the Cat 37
Smith, Chris 4, 43
Smith, Patti 70
Smith, Tim 1
Smyth, Nell 57
Snow Girl, The 12
Snow, P. L. 33
Snow White and Rose Red 34
Soul Development through Handwriting
51
Soul Economy 74
Soule, Deb 39
Spence, Roswitha 7
Spindler, Hermann 52
Spindrift 36
Spirit of the English Language, The 62
Spirit of the Waldorf School, The 73
Spiritual Ground of Education, The 74
Spiritual Tasks of the Homemaker, The
69
Spock, Marjorie 64
Spring 15, 36
Star Children 60
Stargazers’ Almanac 2015 7
Stark, Ulf 12
Star to Guide Me, A 28
Stebbing, Peter 39, 62
Stedall, Jonathan 42
Steel, Richard 70
Steiner Education and Social Issues 65
Steiner Education in Theory and Practice
64
Steiner, Rudolf 5, 61, 62, 65, 67, 68, 72, 73, 74, 75
Steiner-von Sivers, Marie 5
Stella Natura 2015 Biodynamic Planting
Calendar 8
Stockton, Anne 14
Stokes, Julie 71
Stories of the Saints 33
Story of King Lion, The 18
Story of Little Billy Bluesocks, The 18
Story of the Butterfly Children, The 18
Story of the Rabbit Children, The 18
Story of the Root Children, The 18
Story of the Snow Children, The 18
Story of the Wind Children, The 18
Story of Waldorf Education in the United
States, The 61
Storyteller’s Way, The 51
Storytelling for a Greener World 4
Storytelling for Life 62
Storytelling School, The 4
Storytelling with Children 50
Stranger Came Ashore, A 38
Strauss, Michaela 58
Streit, Jakob 37
Stress-Free Parenting in 12 Steps 55
Studer, Hans-Peter 56
Summer 15, 36
Sun and Seed 14
Sun Egg, The 21
Sun Seed, The 14
Swedish Christmas, A 42
Swedish Folk Tales 35
Taina, Hannu 41
Tale of Tam Linn, The 27
Tale of the Little, Little Old Woman,
The 21
Tales from African Dreamtime 33
Talking Eagle and the Lady of Roses 25
Talley, Leslie 70
Tannenbaum, Rose 24
Tasks and Content of the Steiner-Waldorf
Curriculum, The 6
Taylor, Michael 46
Teaching as a Lively Art 64
Teaching Foreign Languages 5
Teutsch, Gertrude 73
Theo, The Blue Rider Pigeon 24
Therapeutic Eye, The 59
Therapeutic Storytelling 69
Thiebout, Marjolein 15
Thomas, Anne and Peter 46
Thomas, Heather 36
Thomas, Linda 2
Thompson, William Irwin 69
Thought Is Just a Thought, A 70
Three Grimms’ Fairy Tales 39
Three Wise Men, The 12
Thumbelina 34
Tidholm, Anna-Clara 28
Timeless Storyteller, The 4
Tistou 37
Tomten and the Fox, The 29
Tomten, The 29
Tomtes’ Christmas Porridge, The 40
Tomtes of Hilltop Farm, The 26
Tomtes of Hilltop Stream, The 11
Tomtes of Hilltop Wood, The 26
Too Much, Too Soon? 58
Törnqvist, Marit 23, 41
Towards Creative Teaching 77
Toymaking with Children 49
Transformational Teaching 61
Transforming History 69
Traveling Light 71
Trostli, Roberto 65
Turner, Kristina 54
Twentyman, Annelise 14
Tyler, Brenda 11, 26
Uan the Little Lamb 28
Ulke, Viola 13
Unbornness 59
Uncle Blue’s New Boat 22
Understanding Children’s Drawings 58
Under the Sky 51
Under the Stars 58
Vaccination 56
Vaccination Dilemma, The 56
Valandro, Marie-Laure 2
Valens, Jo 53
van der Star, Ada 68
Vegan Diet as Chronic Disease
Prevention, The 52
Vegan Family Cookbook, The 52
Vegetable Gardening for Organic and
Biodynamic Growers 8
Verney, Candy 43
Verschuren, Ineke 35, 42
Voors, Bons 70
Wagner, Gerard 39, 62
Waldorf Alphabet Book 25
Waldorf Book of Breads, The 53
Waldorf Education 65
Waldorf Education and Anthroposophy,
Volume One 74
Waldorf Education and Anthroposophy,
Volume Two 74
Waldorf Kindergarten Snack Book, The
53
Waldorf Kindergartens Today 66
Waldorf School Book of Soups, The 53
Ward, William 25, 71
Wästberg, Pernilla 42
Water, Birth, and Sexuality 3
Watts, Bernadette 12
Way of a Child, The 6
Weaving with Children 47
Wee Granny’s Magic Bag 27
Weirauch, Wolfgang 68
Welburn, Andrew 42
Well Balanced Child, The 57
Well, I Wonder 64
Wells, Lizzie 27
Wendt, Caroline 42
Wendy the Whale 14
Wenz-Viëtor, Else 40
Werewolf Parallel 38
Westerink, Gerda 29
Weston, Minda 43
What Babies and Children Really Need 54
What Is Waldorf Education? 65
What Julianna Could See 24
What’s Hiding In There? 17
When Findus Was Little and Disappeared
19
Where Are You? 71
Where Do They Go When It Rains? 23
Where Is My Sister? 19
Whicher, Olive 7
Whispey 14
Whittaker, Nancy 72, 73
Why Children Don’t Listen 70
Why Cleaning Has Meaning 2
Why on Earth? 71
Wiberg, Harald 29
Wiboltt, Anne-Marie Fryer 52
Wildfeuer, Sherry 8
Wildgruber, Thomas 62
Williams, Alexander 14
Williamson, Duncan 33
Williamson, Linda 33
Winding Road, The 36
Winter 36
Winter, Awake! 15, 24
Wise Enchanter, The 31
Wolf, Alex de 26
Wolk-Gerche, Angelika 45, 46, 48
Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The 29
Wonder of Trees, The 44
Woodward, Bob 67
Woodworking with Children 9
Woody, Hazel, and Little Pip 21
Words in Place 62
Work and Play in Early Childhood 57
World of Fairy Tales, The 62
Wulsin, John H. 62
Wyatt, Isabel 32
Year Around the Great Oak, A 23
You and Your Teenager 70
Young, Ella 33
Young, Stephanie 1
Your Reincarnating Child 60
Yule Tomte and the Little Rabbits, The 12
Zeyl, Marjan van 15
Zieve, Robert 56
Zonneveld, Famke 24, 25
zur Linden, Wilhelm 54
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