Steiner-Waldorf Education 2018 A catalogue for educators from Floris Books

Mythology & History Religion & Festivals Creative Arts Storytelling Adventures Author Geoff Mead on storytelling and child development Birthday Traditions Lou Harvey-Zahra and Sara Parrilli discuss the Waldorf birthday story Easy Wood Carving Simple whittling projects for use in the classroom

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Welcome to our Spring 2018 issue Child Development 4

‌t Floris Books, we pride ourselves on offering a wide range of useful, General & Curriculum 10 informative and stimulating books for Steiner-Waldorf teachers and Early Years 14 pupils. We’ve had lots of great feedback on the first issue of our new-look Education Catalogue last year, and we hope you enjoy this Music & Movement 18 secondA edition just as much. Festivals, Language 19 We’ve packed this issue with lots of helpful resources for you, including inspiring features on the role of movement in child development (p.2) and the history of Lower School 22 geometry (p.28) plus author and parenting coach Lou Harvey-Zahra’s thoughts on the Waldorf birthday story (p.16). We’ve even included some creative whittling Stories & Class Readers 22 projects (p.32) for you to try with your class. Language & Literature 25 We hope this catalogue will be a useful resource for every Steiner-Waldorf educator. Mythology & History 26 100th Anniversary of the Waldorf Movement Maths 30 2019 marks one hundred years of Steiner-Waldorf education, and we’re excited to hear about the projects, initiatives and events that are happening around the world. Science 31 Do get in touch to let us know what you’re planning, and if you’re not yet involved, see p.46 for information on how you can participate. Creative Arts 34 If you have any questions about our books, email [email protected] or call Crafts & Activities 34 0131 337 2372. You can place an order using the included order form (p.50), or you can visit our website www.florisbooks.co.uk or order through your local bookshop. Handwork 37 Best wishes, Painting & Drawing 40 Music 40 Drama 41

Katy Lockwood-Holmes, Christian Maclean & the Floris Team Upper School 44

School Organisation 47 Get in touch with Floris Index by class 48

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 1 06/04/2018 09:51:48 Learning through living Experienced children’s physiotherapist Evelien van Dort explores the role of movement in learning in this extract from her new book for parents Why Don’t Children Sit Still?

n traditional schools, children Learning to ‘grasp’ abstract numbers There are lots of ways to encourage spend most of the day sitting and quantities with our fingers in this connection, for example activities down at a desk. Their movement is this way causes a neural connection, such as circle games allow children to restricted, and as a consequence, so and research has shown that young establish and practise this neural link, Iis their ability to experience. Abstract children with nimble fingers are able to especially if they are accompanied by concepts are much easier for children to learn arithmetic skills more easily later counting exercises. understand if they are accompanied by on. Finger games are important for movement, or doing. developing this ability, while playing “Our memory functions For example, for a child to a musical instrument can also be a at its best when we move understand that five apples are greater wonderful stimulus for hand dexterity. than two, they must first learn to count Using repetitive movements such as and speak out loud.” using their fingers, beginning with one walking and counting sounds simple, hand and then progressing to both. yet in my experience I have come Learning has become an abstract across many children who have great process at most schools. Children “In traditional schools, trouble in stepping or jumping while sit and work, and are not given the children’s movement counting at the same time. Walking and opportunity to develop these key counting backwards simultaneously is sensory motor skills. is restricted, and as a even more difficult. This gap in ability Even in Ancient Greece, sensory consequence, so is their demonstrates that the child has not motor learning was applied by ability to experience.” yet achieved freedom of movement rhythmically walking while learning (insufficient motor maturation), and a poem by heart, and today, research This is the basic foundation for that this particular skill needs more proves that our memory functions at its learning the essentials of arithmetic. attention. best when we move and speak out loud,

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 2 06/04/2018 09:52:06 enabling us to create the all-important and learning’, can be seen in a number Why not try: Our society is focused neural pathways needed for learning of schooling systems around the world, on looking, but what is it like to stand and development. but Waldorf schools in particular pay or walk with your eyes closed? Ask As Bothmer Gymnastics highlights, special attention to learning through your students to do just that. Can they sensory motor movement is more than movement. name and experience what surrounds just the mechanics of bones and muscles them without seeing it? There are lots – it involves the body’s inner processes “Walking and jumping of fun circle, singing and movement just as much as its outer actions. caused the children’s games that can strengthen this deeper Imagine it this way: a child wants capacity for experiencing the world to pick an apple from a tree. The apple brains to release around us. is the reason why the child stretches adrenaline, enabling out their arm, stands on their tiptoes or information to be climbs up a ladder. The apple becomes caused the children’s brains to release the child’s incentive to move, unlocking absorbed more effectively” adrenaline, enabling information to be the will and translating their impulse absorbed more effectively – illustrating into the movement of picking. For example, in cooking lessons this undeniable link between movement children learn about abstract concepts and experience. “When children take such as weight when measuring sugar action, they are given and flour. Here, the principle of ‘learning If you found this extract interesting, through living’ is learning through why not share with parents who want to the chance to learn meaningful experiences. Through know more about the benefits of Steiner- using their whole self, experience, enthusiasm is kindled Waldorf education? through experience and and the will is stimulated, providing discovery.” children with the best possible outlook You may be also be interested in for learning. But this principle doesn’t these books covering different just have to be confined to ‘practical’ aspects of child development: The child looks forward to having subjects. the apple (soul) and intends (I) to pick A study performed by the University • Helping Children form it. The apple was already with the child of Groningen in the Netherlands found Healthy Attachments (p.5) (spirit) before they even started moving. that movement in the classroom can • Managing Screen Time (p.5) When children take action, they are give better school results. A programme • Warmth (p.7) given the chance to learn using their called ‘Fit and Skilled’ was developed in • A Waldorf Guide to whole self, through experience and which children moved energetically for Children’s Health (p.6) discovery. half an hour three times a week during The close relationship between maths and language lessons. Scientists movement and experience, or ‘living found that walking and jumping

Good to know: Bothmer Gymnastics is a series of the body’s relationship with space specially developed movement exercises and direction, as well as encouraging introduced in the first Waldorf School confidence and coordination. It is in Stuttgart. Intending to develop both widely taught in Waldorf schools, with inner and outer balance, the approach exercises tailored to the development focuses on using movement to explore needs of each specific age group.

Movement is essential in helping children Evelien van Dort is a children’s physiotherapist develop not only motor skills but also in the Netherlands with over thirty years’ intellectual, emotional and social skills. Why experience. She was knighted in 2016 in Don’t Children Sit Still? is a practical and recognition of her services to literature and insightful book, exploring how children literacy. develop sensory motor skills, and why Paperback | 120pp | £7.99 movement is so important to development.

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Adventures in Parenting: Children’s Creative Play: Difficult Children: A Support Guide for Parents How Simple Dolls and Toys Help There Is No Such Thing: RACHEL C. ROSS Your Child Develop An Appeal for the Transformation A supportive book guiding parents KARIN NEUSCHÜTZ of Educational Thinking through particular challenges of raising Explores children’s developmental stages HENNING KÖHLER children to help them carry Waldorf up to age seven, and suggests suitable Challenges the labelling of children school principles into the home. toys, dolls, games and activities to with so-called behavioural disorders as 112pp | £12.99 nurture and develop them. ‘educationally difficult’. b/w illustrations | 120pp | £7.99 216pp | £14.99 The Care and Development of the Human Senses: Rudolf Steiner’s Completing the Circle Educating Traumatized Children: work on the significance of the THOMAS POPLAWSKI Waldorf Education in senses in education Explores how teachers and parents Crisis Intervention WILLI AEPPLI together can form a supporting, BERND RUF A presentation of Steiner’s ideas about cooperative circle for children. Reveals the work of international the nature of the twelve human senses Addresses issues of consumerism, play, relief organisation Friends of Waldorf as he saw them, and their role in media and sports. Education with children in war zones education. 112pp | £12.99 and disaster areas around the world. 144pp | £8.99 28 b/w illustrations | 220pp | £20.00 Developmental Signatures: Core Children and Their Temperaments Values and Practices in Waldorf The First Three Years of the Child: MARIEKE ANSCHÜTZ Education for Children Ages 3-9 Walking, Speaking, Thinking A guide to children’s different DAVID MITCHELL (ED) KARL KÖNIG temperaments and their role in child The results of an in-depth study into the A detailed analysis of the major character, health and personality developmental stages of children aged achievements that dominate the first development. between three and nine, in relation to three years of life: learning to walk, to 128pp | £8.99 Steiner-Waldorf educational practice. speak and to think. b/w photographs | 160pp | £16.99 128pp | £9.99 The Children of Cyclops: The Influences of Television Viewing on the Developing Human Brain KEITH A. BUZZELL Examines the physiological effects of television watching on the development of a child’s brain. 112pp | £11.99

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 4 06/04/2018 09:52:15 From Images to Thinking Managing Screen Time: Rubicon: Selections from the DAVID MITCHELL (ED) Raising Balanced Children in the Works of Rudolf Steiner An insightful collection of essays which Digital Age MONICA RUEF explore the development of children’s EDMOND SCHOOREL Addresses both the nine-year-old imagination and capacities, from A thought-provoking book which Rubicon and other transition moments pictures and stories through to scientific offers a comprehensive overview of between the ages of seven and twelve. thinking. the pros and cons of the use of screens 188pp | £16.99 11 colour illustrations | 132pp | £22.00 (computers, tablets, consoles and smart phones) by children. Rudolf Steiner’s Observations on Helping Children Form Healthy 15 b/w illustrations | 128pp | £7.99 Adolescence: The Third Phase of Attachments: Building the Morality and Ethics in Education Human Development Foundation for Strong Lifelong DAVID MITCHELL DAVID MITCHELL Relationships AND CHRISTOPHER CLOUDER (EDS) LOIS EIJGENRAAM Helps parents and teachers understand their role in guiding young people A collection of Rudolf Steiner’s With practical tips and real-life towards right thought and right action. comments and writings on adolescence, examples from an experienced educator, 148pp | £22.50 from age fourteen to twenty-one. this insightful book explores how the 176pp | £12.99 process of healthy attachment develops Phases of Childhood: Growing in in young children (until 6 years old) and Body, Soul and Spirit how carers and educators can The Seven Life Processes: help in this process. BERNARD C. J. LIEVEGOED Understanding and Supporting 120pp | £7.99 Argues that education must take into Them in Home, Kindergarten account body, soul and spirit in order and School for a child to develop into a happy, wise and skilled adult. PHILIPP GELITZ AND ALMUTH STREHLOW Helping Children on their Way: 208pp | £12.99 Educational Support for the Identifies and explores the seven Classroom physiological life processes and how ELIZABETH AUER (ED) A Practical Guide to Curative they relate to the healthy development Education: The Ladder of the of children. Collection of articles for classroom teachers who need to give support to Seven Life Processes b/w illustrations | 180pp | £20.00 ROBYN BROWN children with additional needs. Sexual Abuse Of Children: 200 colour illustrations | 314pp | £42.50 Drawing on ideas from Rudolf Steiner’s pioneering Curative Education course, Understanding, Prevention, this book goes back to basics and and Treatment examines the potential benefits of this MICHAELA GLÖCKLER unique educational approach. A short but insightful booklet tackling 180pp | £14.99 a difficult but important issue. 16pp | Pamphlet | £5.99

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The Temperaments and the Arts: Warmth: Nurturing Children’s Working with Anxious, Nervous Their Relation and Function in Health and Wellbeing and Depressed Children: Waldorf Pedagogy EDMOND SCHOOREL A Spiritual Perspective MAGDA LISSAU A unique and practical book on one of to Guide Parents Considers the connection and influence the key building blocks of life, essential HENNING KÖHLER of the temperaments in areas such as for healthy child development. A lively, readable book proposing a sculpture, painting, eurythmy, music 120pp | £7.99 therapeutic approach for parents which and language. Read an extract on p.7 draws on spritiual dimensions, such as 182pp | £12.99 angels. 144pp | £16.99 Understanding Deeper Why Don’t Children Sit Still?: Parents and early years Developmental Needs: Holistic A Parent’s Guide to Healthy educators may be also be Approaches for Challenging Movement and Play in Child Behaviors in Children Development interested in these books: ADAM BLANNING EVELIEN VAN DORT • Upstart (p.15) Examines a powerful way of looking at A practical and insightful book • Waldorf Kindergartens Today children’s challenging behaviour and exploring the role of movement in (p.15) assessing suitable therapies. child development (including spacial • Work and Play in Early 524pp | £30.00 awareness, balance, coordination and telling right from left). Filled with Childhood (p.15) reassuring answers to parents’ questions. • Bear Child (p.19) A Waldorf Guide to Children’s 120pp | £7.99 • Mary’s Little Donkey (p.19) Health: Illnesses, Symptoms, Read an extract on p.2 • Through the Rainbow (p.19) Treatments and Therapies MICHAELA GLÖCKLER The definitive guide to children’s health and wellness includes first aid, how to treat common complaints and illnesses and advice on when to seek medical help. Based on the bestselling A Guide To Child Health. 248pp | £12.99

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 6 06/04/2018 09:52:23 The warmth of enthusiasm Warmth is a wooly jumper and a crackling fire in the grate. It is a smile when we need encouragement, and a hug when things aren’t going our way. In this extract from his new book Warmth, anthroposophical therapist Edmond Schoorel discusses the importance of nurturing a warmth of spirit, or enthusiasm, in children.

ave you ever met a child Unfortunately, children can become We must never decide what must make who is never enthusiastic? I enthusiastic about something bad or our children enthusiastic, what must certainly hope not. Together unhealthy. This brings us to a second make them warm inside. We should with love, enthusiasm important element of enthusiasm: it give them some healthy options and His the most human thing we own. always involves a moral aspect. Since we show them by example how we become Have you ever seen a baby laughing are all free to choose something good, enthusiastic about our own interests. uncontrollably? I’m sure you have. Then morally speaking, we are also free to Children are born from (and with) the you will also know that enthusiasm is choose something that is reprehensible. warmth of our enthusiasm. It comes very contagious. from their own sense of ‘I’, though When used at the right time, “Together with love, it can get temporarily lost through enthusiasm should make a situation enthusiasm is the most worries, sickness, learning difficulties warm and light; when used at the wrong human thing we own.” or developmental problems. And then time it provokes irritation because it it is a blessing when they discover it sometimes ignores alternative points of Young children have not yet reached an again. view. Some children, especially children appropriate level of judgement about It is not until children reach with a fierce temperament, can be quite such choices. They participate in what adulthood that they will be able to compelling in their enthusiasm – but the world offers them. ‘switch on’ warm enthusiasm for goals it’s our job to teach them to conform This isn’t entirely black and white. that serve not just themselves, but also their warmth to the plans of others and While children may be too young to the greater good of others. wait for the right moment to convey it. judge deeper issues, they do seem to Thus we have come to an important have an innate capacity to tell what element of enthusiasm: it is never is right and what is wrong. Young about you alone. Enthusiasm takes children often feel empathy for others. others with it and should bring them Our task as educators is to make sure something good. that this pure feeling is well guided.

Warmth is a fascinating and practical Edmond Schoorel is a pediatrician at book that explores the role of physical and the Children’s Therapy Clinic in Utrecht, emotional warmth in child development. Netherlands, where he specialises in Discover Schoorel’s valuable insights on how anthroposophical approaches to children’s to nurture different aspects of warmth, both health and wellbeing. at home and in the classroom. Paperback | 120pp | £7.99

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 7 06/04/2018 09:52:25 Recommended for parents Do parents ever ask you for more information on subjects related to Steiner- Waldorf education? Most of the books in this catalogue are designed for teachers, but we also publish an inspiring and informative selection aimed at parents. We hope the books below will help with some of your FAQs!

Who was Rudolf Steiner and What subjects are taught in the How do Waldorf schools what is anthroposophy? Steiner-Waldorf curriculum? celebrate festivals?

What is Steiner-Waldorf Education? What is eurythmy?

What can I expect from How is reading taught in Can you suggest any books Steiner-Waldorf kindergartens? Steiner-Waldorf schools? about parenting?

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 8 06/04/2018 09:53:08 Lighting the fire of wonder In this extract from A Gift of Wonder, teacher and storyteller Kim Allsup argues that school should be a habitat for wonder, and teachers should be trained to nurture the natural sense of wonder in their students.

he number one,” six-year-old stars of the night sky would no longer at a time. I would need to learn how to Helen began, “is like the earth dance with the fireflies, but would kindle a new, reality-based awe when and the stars and the sun are turn out to be cold, distant specks. my class ceased to make their own easy all part of one... everything, the Ultimately, by third grade, my students connections and understandings. I had Twhole universe is part of it and it just been told in teacher training that in the goes on and on forever.” “Every object, every first two grades, it was more important All eyes grew wide and there was a living being has a to nurture the inner forces behind a feeling of searching together. child’s imagination than to fill that At six and seven years old, my place in a world strung child with too many facts too soon. I children understood truths that they together by imagination.” had been told that my job was all about would soon begin to forget. Now it was patience, setting an unhurried pace. my job to protect their wonder, knowing would each perceive themselves to be But now I realized that allowing that, before long, their dreamy sense of in a world of discrete objects, and they children the time to experience wonder oneness would begin to slip away. Over would see themselves standing apart also creates an opportunity for them to the next few years, my students would from a universe that was no longer a give adults a priceless gift. go through a profound transformation. never-ending, benign continuity. To first graders, every object, every Holding a steady course towards living being has a place in a world wonder would then mean that I needed strung together by imagination. But, to become a different kind of teacher. soon, an acorn top would cease to be an It would be my job to help my students elf ’s cap. A little stone would no longer forge new connections with the be a fairy’s smooth, rounded seat. The universe one acorn, one stone, one star

A Gift of Wonder is a funny, poignant Kim Allsup was a Waldorf teacher in the memoir of a teacher’s journey with her class, USA for 22 years. She now advises teachers in which she explores the nature of wonder, and pioneers the use of school sunhouses. its benefits for learning, and how to retain it. Paperback | 240pp | £16.99

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Do You Love Your Teachers? An Exploration into the Destiny A Handbook for Steiner-Waldorf Memoir of a Waldorf Teacher of the Waldorf School Movement Class Teachers ERIC G. MÜLLER FRANS LUTTERS KEVIN AVISON A readable memoir tracing Müller’s Draws connections between Emil Molt A useful and practical resource book for journey to becoming a Waldorf teacher and Emperor Charlemagne, both of Steiner-Waldorf teachers with detailed and experiencing the difference that whom implemented a new schools suggestions and checklists. Waldorf education can make. movement. 144pp | Classes 1-8 | £14.99 illustrated | 388pp | £16.99 25 b/w illustrations | 180pp | £14.99 Leave No Child Inside: A Selection Education Towards Freedom: A Gift of Wonder: A True Story of Essays from Orion Magazine Rudolf Steiner Education: A Showing School As It Should Be H. EMERSON BLAKE (ED) survey of the work of Waldorf KIM ALLSUP Argues that children and nature must Schools throughout the world A funny, poignant memoir of a teacher’s be radically reconnected through FRANS CARLGREN six-year journey with her class, which education, to enable them to become also explores the nature of education stewards of our world. The seminal work on Steiner-Waldorf and how to retain the element of education which has helped establish it 152pp | £9.99 wonder. throughout the world. Covers all aspects 240pp | £16.99 of this alternative approach to children’s The Multifaceted Life learning and development. Read an extract on p.9 of Emil Molt 100+ illustrations | 272pp | £14.99 The Grail Mystery and the Seven SOPHIA CHRISTINE MURPHY Educating Through Art: Liberal Arts A new biography of the founder of the first Waldorf school, written by his The Steiner School Approach FRANS LUTTERS AGNES NOBEL grand-daughter. Explores the history and future of a 344pp | £20.00 Investigates why Steiner-Waldorf unique educational structure, which schools attach such importance to art Waldorf schools are working to in education and why Rudolf Steiner transform for the modern age. himself brought artistic training into all b/w illustrations | 136pp | £14.99 fields of further education. illustrated | 308pp | Classes 1–8 | £16.99

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 10 06/04/2018 09:53:11 Place-Based Education: Steiner Education in Theory Understanding Waldorf Education: Connecting Classrooms and and Practice Teaching from the Inside Out Communities GILBERT J. CHILDS JACK PETRASH DAVID SOBEL A detailed account of Rudolf Steiner’s A jargon-free picture of the key A comprehensive overview of the theory view of children, and the role education components of a Steiner-Waldorf and current best practice of experiential, must play in their development. education, ideal for parents and place-based education which advocates 288pp | £16.99 teachers. learning in real-world settings. 144pp | £9.99 156pp | £9.99 The Tasks and Content of the Steiner-Waldorf Curriculum Waldorf Education The Recovery of Man in KEVIN AVISON AND MARTYN CHRISTOPHER CLOUDER AND Childhood: A Study of the RAWSON (EDS) MARTYN RAWSON Educational Work of Rudolf A comprehensive overview of what is A concise introduction to the Steiner- Steiner taught in Waldorf schools, and why. Waldorf school and its philosophy. A. C. HARWOOD 384pp | £20.00 Includes examples from the classroom and the curriculum. A classic and definitive presentation of 10 colour illustrations | 160pp | £7.99 Steiner-Waldorf education, still as fresh Toward the Deepening and insightful today as when it was first of Waldorf Education written. RUDOLF STEINER Waldorf Education: 206pp | £12.99 This book contains all the esoteric An Introduction for Parents information that Steiner shared with the DAVID MITCHELL (ED) Rudolf Steiner’s Curriculum teachers of the first Waldorf school. An insightful collection of essays for Steiner-Waldorf Schools: 132pp | Hardback | £30.00 addressing key issues about education An Attempt to Summarise His and children’s development. Indications 114pp | £9.99 E. A. KARL STOCKMEYER Towards Creative Teaching: An in-depth exploration of the Notes to an Evolving Curriculum curriculum of the first Waldorf school, for Steiner Waldorf Class Teachers expanding on the original ‘Lehrplan’. MARTYN RAWSON 336pp | £16.99 AND KEVIN AVISON (EDS) A truly comprehensive resource book offering ideas for planning and developing all main-lessons and accompanying subjects. 256pp | Classes 1-8 | £12.99 NEW NEW

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 11 06/04/2018 09:53:15 Adventures in storytelling In this exclusive guest article, Emerson College-trained storyteller and author Geoff Mead explains the importance of stories and storytelling in the personal and moral development of young children. He also shares some useful storytelling tips for the classroom.

he practical and educational notice the medium we dwell within. going on inside me,” she said. “It is benefits of storytelling are well- Unaware that our stories are stories, a terrible fight and it is between two known: enhanced listening and we experience them as the world. But wolves. One is evil – she is anger, envy, concentration; understanding we can change the water. When our sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self- Tcausality and consequences; creativity accounts of the world become different, pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, and use of imagination; sharing and the world becomes different. false pride, superiority and ego.” turn-taking; improved speech and “The other is good,” she continued. writing to name but a few. Because Therein lies the essence of why “She is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, they are so well known, I want to focus storytelling matters: to tell a story is not humility, kindness, benevolence, instead on the importance of stories and simply to give an account of something empathy, generosity, truth, compassion storytelling in our personal and moral but to change our relationship with and faith. The same fight is going on development and on some practical it; to listen to a story is to allow the inside you – and inside every other aspects of storytelling in the classroom. possibility of being changed by it. From person, too.” an early age, stories shape who we are, The children thought about it “Unaware that our how we relate to others and how we for a minute and then asked their make sense of the world. grandmother: “Which wolf will win?” stories are stories, we Stories are so fundamental to how The old Cherokee simply replied, experience them as we think, feel and act that choosing the “The one you feed.” the world.” stories to which we expose our children and helping them develop the capacity “Stories shape who we The internet, cinema, television, to distinguish between stories that are, how we relate to radio, podcasts, books, even advertising expand the human spirit and those that hoardings bombard us daily with stories. distort and constrain our potential are others and how we make We are, so to speak, swimming in a critically important. sense of the world.” sea of stories and as Buddhist scholar There’s a Native American story David Loy says: that explains this dilemma beautifully: Young children rely on us as parents and teachers to provide them with a Like the proverbial fish that cannot An old Cherokee was teaching her diet of wholesome stories: ones that see the water they swim in, we do not grandchildren about life. “A fight is encourage self-belief and individuality;

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 12 06/04/2018 09:53:18 a generous and inclusive approach to • Stories take us into other worlds • Stories can be ‘just for fun’ but they others; and an ethic of responsibility so that we can experience our own can also enable children to begin to and care for the human and more-than- more deeply. Creating a special story consider bigger issues when they are human world. time and/or place helps children let mediated through the experiences If we can agree that the choice of go of other concerns and activities of characters in a story, held in the story matters, what can teachers do in so they can get ready for their voice and gaze of a beloved teacher. the classroom to help children get the journey into the world of the story. most learning and enjoyment from the Reading stories to children can be stories they are told? “What can teachers do a wonderful adventure, but I do urge Whether you are reading from a you to try telling stories as well. I don’t book or telling a story you know, there in the classroom to mean learning the words of a story by are three sets of relationships which help children get the rote and repeating them, but coming to need attention: most learning and know a story so well that you can tell it in your own words. • One is with your own emotions and enjoyment from the There’s a wonderful sense of sense of wonder so your listeners stories they are told?” immediacy and freedom when you take can connect fully with theirs. the short step from reading to telling • Another is the care and attention you • Sometimes you might want to show a story in this way. After all, why pay to the cadences of language and a picture from a book but your real shouldn’t teachers have fun too? how the unfolding story affects the job is to create pictures in the minds characters within it. of your listeners. Get to know the • The third is maintaining your imaginary world of the story for connection with your audience yourself so you can stimulate their by the tone of your voice and by imaginations by sharing the fruits making eye contact. of yours. • If the story is good enough, it will There are as many ways to tell convey its ‘message’ perfectly well stories as there are stories, but here are without the addition of a homily some of the things I try to bear in mind or moral. Encourage your young when telling stories to children – and listeners to make sense of the story to adults: for themselves.

Geoff Mead is a storyteller and author, Bear Child is an inspirational story of trained at the School of Storytelling, Emerson parental love, belief and individuality. This College. He has published a number of books beautiful picture book weaves Geoff Mead’s about stories and storytelling and runs charming words with Sanne Dufft’s ethereal storytelling workshops around the world. illustrations to create a truly timeless folktale. Hardback | 32pp | £10.99

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 13 06/04/2018 09:53:51 EARLY YEARS

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The Child from Birth to Three in From Kindergarten into the Grades: On the Play of the Child: Waldorf Education and Child Care Insights from Rudolf Steiner Indications by Rudolf Steiner for RAINER PATZLAFF AND RUTH KER (ED) Working with Young Children SUSAN HOWARD (EDS) Helps parents and teachers understand FREYA JAFFKE A clear and succinct summary of Steiner’s words on the transition from A compilation of Rudolf Steiner’s words the anthroposophical view of child kindergarten to school, giving context to on the subject of children’s play, now in development from birth to three years. this challenging time. a second edition. 74 colour illustrations | 84pp | £14.99 96pp | £12.99 60pp | £11.99 Cradle of a Healthy Life: Early The Journey of the ‘I’ into Life: Childhood and the Whole of Life A Final Destination or a Path Play with Us!: Social Games for Young Children JOHANNA STEEGMANS AND Towards Freedom? GERALD KARNOW NANCY BLANNING (ED) FREYA JAFFKE Perspectives from two anthroposophic A collection of keynote presentations A concise but rich collection of games doctors on helping young children from the 2012 International Waldorf Early for indoors and outdoors. develop a healthy relationship with their Childhood conference. 30 b/w illustrations | 80pp | £14.99 bodies. 60pp | £9.99 162pp | £11.99 Pumpkin Soup and Cherry Bread: Nokken: A Garden for Children: Creating Connections: A Steiner-Waldorf Kindergarten A Danish Approach to Cookbook Perspectives on Parent-and-Child Waldorf-based Child Care RIKKE ROSENGREN AND NANA LYZET Work in Waldorf Early Childhood HELLE HECKMANN Education Contains over eighty seasonal recipes Helle Heckmann describes a delightful – nutritious, delicious, vegetarian and KIMBERLEY LEWIS AND Danish Waldorf childcare facility for SUSAN WEBER (EDS) 100% natural – along with a wealth of children ages 1-7. advice on encouraging children to enjoy Explores all aspects of parent-and- b/w illustrations | 116pp | £14.99 healthy food. child work, including perspectives from 120 colour illustrations | 168pp | £14.99 educators and parents. Nurturing Potential in the 122pp | £11.99 Kindergarten Years: A Guide for Teachers, Carers and Parents Same Light, Many Candles: First Grade Readiness: Resources, CORNELIS BOOGERD Working with Vulnerable Children Insights and Tools for Waldorf Helps parents and teachers understand and Mothers within Toxically Educators children’s learning processes, and Stressed Communities NANCY BLANNING (ED) provides practical ways to nurture them CAROL COLE A collection of essential research and in the first seven years, using teachers’ The remarkable story of a project which resources to help educators prepare own etheric bodies. helped to turn around the lives of over children for starting school. 2 b/w diagrams | 256pp | £14.99 one hundred mothers and children at 188pp | Spiral bound | £20.00 risk of homelessness and abuse. 8 b/w illustrations | 144pp | £14.99

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 14 06/04/2018 09:53:54 School Readiness Today: A Report Upstart: The case for raising the Work and Play in Early Childhood from the Pedagogical Section of school starting age and providing FREYA JAFFKE the Goetheanum what the under-sevens really need Shows how rhythm and repetition, NANCY BLANNING SUE PALMER together with example and imitation, Offers valuable insights into discerning Sue Palmer puts forward a passionate are the pillars of early learning. school readiness, with concrete case for Britain adopting a proper 15 colour photos | 80pp | £7.99 examples. ‘kindergarten’ stage that recognises 30 colour illustrations | 80pp | £11.99 what under-sevens really need. Working with the Angels: 224pp | £9.99 The Young Child and Supporting Self-directed Play in the Spiritual World Steiner-Waldorf Early Childhood SUSAN HOWARD (ED) Waldorf Kindergartens Today Education A collection of articles about finding a RENATE LONG-BREIPOHL MARIE-LUISE COMPANI connection to the spiritual world as a AND PETER LANG (EDS) A important overview on the importance help to our work with young children. of children’s play, and types of self- Considers the principles, characteristics 128pp | £16.99 directed play. and future of Steiner-Waldorf 25 colour illus | 50pp | Pamphlet | £14.99 kindergartens 65 colour illustrations | 224pp | £16.99 The World of Fairy Tales: Tell Me A Story: Stories from A Path to the Essence of the the Waldorf Early Childhood A Warm and Gentle Welcome: Young Child through Fairy Tales Association of North America Nurturing Children from Birth DANIEL UDO DE HAES to Age Three LOUISE DEFOREST (ED) A comprehensive look at the use of fairy TRICE ATCHISON AND tales in kindergartens. ILLUSTRATED BY DEBORAH GRIEDER MARGARET RIS (EDS) 5 b/w illustrations | 160pp | £16.99 A collection of favourite stories, old An essential compilation of articles on and new, especially selected for Steiner- the vital years between birth and three Waldorf kindergartens. in relation to professional Waldorf A Year in the Woods: Reflections black and white illustrations | 276pp | £20.00 caregiving. on Leading an Outdoor 86pp | £16.99 Parent-and-Child Group Trust and Wonder: A Waldorf MARGARET MADELINE LOESCHER Approach to Caring for Infants What is a Waldorf Kindergarten? Reflective, inspirational chronicle of a and Toddlers year spent leading an outdoor parent- ELDBJORG GJESSING PAULSEN SHARIFA OPPENHEIMER (ED) and-child group in England. A kindergarten teacher shares her An in-depth look at Waldorf b/w line drawings | 100pp | £14.99 extensive experience of integrating kindergartens, from the essentials that children under three into a Waldorf underpin them to the practicalities of kindergarten. the daily routine. You’re Not The Boss of Me!: 11 b/w photographs | 124pp | £12.99 120pp | £12.99 Understanding the Six/Seven- Year-Old Transformation RUTH KER (ED) A multitude of resources and insights to help parents and teachers of six and NEW seven-year-old children. 316pp | Spiral bound | Classes 1–2 | £25.00

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 15 06/04/2018 09:53:57 Sharing the birthday story Children’s birthdays are a wonderful time to remember the day they arrived in the world and to reflect on the previous year. We spoke to author Lou Harvey-Zahra and illustrator Sara Parrilli about why the birthday story tradition is such a special part of growing up.

Can you share your own experience of Why do you think the birthday story Do you have any advice on how teachers the birthday story? is so important to families and their can celebrate children’s birthdays in the LHZ: My own two children received children? classroom? this tale every year, starting from their LHZ: It reminds parents of the LHZ: It is important for teachers to first birthday, as a puppet play. I’ve sacredness of human life, to celebrate bring their own magic to the birthday also been asked to share this story in the uniqueness of each individual child, story. Only then does it become truly reverse, for children experiencing the and to wonder at the support of the alive! Here are a few ideas: loss of a loved one. To bring comfort invisible worlds. It takes us to a place • Create a birthday spiral of candles as family members return over the out of our everyday lives and imbues – children may decorate the cloth rainbow bridge to the land of angels. beauty, wonder and goodness into our with nature items and gem stones SP: I had the opportunity to be a consciousness. before the birthday story. first grade assistant for one year and SP: I think the Waldorf birthday • Tell the story as a puppet play. during that time was fortunate to story is a confirmation and a comfort • The birthday child can wear a crown observe all of the birthday celebrations to the young child that says, yes, this is and cloak to walk across a fabric held within the classroom. I often your place on earth. rainbow bridge. found myself moved to tears hearing the stories of the seven-year-old child The birthday story is unique to each who was being celebrated. child. How does that work with this book? What is the central message of the LHZ: At the end of the traditional birthday story? “I often found myself tale, the parents typically share LHZ: It’s a celebration and love for moved to tears hearing favourite memories of the child, from each unique soul, the beauty of the each year of life. ‘When you were one...’ earth and natural world, the sacredness the stories of the The end pages can be filled with of childhood, and that we are never child who was being joyful and loving childhood memories really alone. What a message! celebrated.” for a keepsake book.

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 16 06/04/2018 09:54:01 There are many different versions and Where did your inspiration for Through SP: As a teacher, my students interpretations of the birthday story. the Rainbow come from? constantly inspire me and I couldn’t What is special about Through the LHZ: As a Waldorf playgroup leader, have painted this book in the same Rainbow? teacher and parent, I have shared my way without them. Contemplating my LHZ: Through the Rainbow took version of the traditional Waldorf individual students and conversing a collaborative approach, where I birthday story for the past twenty years. with my close friends and colleagues interviewed Waldorf Early Childhood To witness the sparkly eyes of children, aided me in forming the illustrations. colleagues and parents. Together we and parents’ tears of joy is a blessing. And rightly so, because this is a book formulated a version composed of all As an author of parenting books, Floris that is intended for the homes of lots of our favourite parts and to be inclusive Books approached me to undertake the different children. of all children, regardless of gender, task of retelling this sacred tale. race or family dynamics. We love hearing about creative birthday celebrations! Check out #SteinerBirthdays on Instagram and Twitter to be inspired and share your own memories.

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Lou Harvey-Zahra has taught in primary, Through the Rainbow is a faithful and special needs and Steiner-Waldorf schools, as inspiring retelling of the Waldorf birthday well as kindergartens. She is also a respected story accompanied by soft, ethereal parenting coach. illustrations, which together create a beautiful picture book which can be Sara Parrilli is an artist and Waldorf teacher personalised for each child. living in New York state. Hardback | 32pp | £12.99

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A Child’s Seasonal Treasury Gesture Games for Autumn and The Mood of the Fifth: A Musical Winter: Hand Gesture, Song and Approach to Early Childhood BETTY JONES Movement Games for Children NANCY FOSTER (ED) A compendium of seasonal songs, crafts in Kindergarten and the Lower Explores the role of music in the and recipes for parents and teachers. Grades 140pp | colour illus. | £30.00 development of young children. WILMA ELLERSIEK 200pp | £16.99 b/w illus. | 146pp | Spiral bound | £22.50 Dancing Hand, Trotting Pony: Movement for the Young Child: Hand Gesture Games, Songs Gesture Games for Spring and A Handbook for Eurythmists and and Movement Games for Summer, Autumn and Winter: Kindergarten Teachers Children in Kindergarten and the A Learning CD ESTELLE BRYER Lower Grades Audio CD | £14.99 inc VAT A treasury of songs, stories, verses and WILMA ELLERSIEK Giving Love, Bringing Joy: Hand games for use in a eurythmy lesson. 164pp | Spiral bound | £22.50 Gesture Games and Lullabies 120pp | £18.99 A Day Full of Song: Work Songs in the Mood of the Fifth, for Children Between Birth and Nine Please, Can We Play Games? from a Waldorf Kindergarten Joyful Interactions with KAREN LONSKY WILMA ELLERSIEK b/w illus. | 110pp | Spiral bound | £18.99 Young Children ILLUSTRATED BY VICTORIA SANDER RUTH KER 42 original songs created for a range of Giving Love, Bringing Joy: A wonderful collection of traditional activities in the kindergarten day. A Learning CD and original verses, songs and games to b/w illustrations | 64pp | £12.99 Audio CD | £9.99 inc VAT nourish children’s body, soul and spirit. 135pp | b/w illus. | £20.00 A Day Full of Song: Companion CD A Lifetime of Joy: A Collection Audio CD | £7.50 inc VAT of Circle Games, Finger Games, Songs, Verses and Plays for Singing and Speaking the Child Gesture Games for Spring and Puppets and Marionettes Summer: Hand Gesture Games, into Life: Songs, Verses and BRONJA ZAHLINGEN (ED) Rhythmic Games for the Child in Songs and Movement Games for 114pp | £14.99 Children in Kindergarten and the the First Three Years Lower Grades Merrily We Sing: Original Songs SUSAN WEBER, NANCY MACALASTER WILMA ELLERSIEK in the Mood of the Fifth AND JANE SWAIN b/w illus. | 110pp | Spiral bound | £22.50 ILIAN WILLWERTH Songs, verses and games which encourage the use of the voice for A useful book of songs using the healthy child development. pentatonic scale for kindergarten 128pp | £16.99 teachers. 40pp | £12.99 The Singing, Playing Kindergarten DANIEL UDO DE HAES NEW NEW NEW Explores simple singing and gesture games, considering their significance for a healthy childhood awakening. 174pp | £18.99

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Celebrating Festivals Saint Martin: Between with Children Michaelmas and the Holy Nights Bear Child GEOFF MEAD FREYA JAFFKE MICHAEL MARTIN ILLUSTRATED BY SANNE DUFFT Describes festival celebrations in relation A study of Saint Martin and suggestions to child development in the first seven for festival celebrations. An inspirational story of parental love, years. 38pp | Pamphlet | £9.99 belief and embracing individuality. Who 144pp | £9.99 are the bear folk and what makes them The Seasonal Festivals special? Jonathan’s Journey in Early Childhood: colour illustrations | 32pp | £10.99 ELIZABETH L. LOMBARDI Seeking the Universally Human See our guest feature on p.12 On Christmas Eve a dwarf invites NANCY FOSTER (ED) Jonathan to the Inside Land where he A collection of articles, stories, songs, The Creative Word: Language and meets Father Christmas and makes a circle games and puppet plays which Storytelling in Early Childhood promise. offer thoughtful reflections on the cycle DANIEL UDO DE HAES colour illustrations | 32pp | Hardback | £14.99 of the year. Guidance and wisdom on how to aid 162pp | £16.99 toddlers as they transition from wordless Mary’s Little Donkey communication to encountering the GUNHILD SEHLIN Through the Rainbow: A Waldorf world through language. ILLUSTRATED BY HÉLÈNE MULLER Birthday Story for Children 96pp | £12.99 A beautifully illustrated picture book LOU HARVEY-ZAHRA For the Children of the World: edition of this much-loved classic ILLUSTRATED BY SARA PARRILLI Stories and Recipes from the Christmas tale. A faithful and inspiring retelling of the International Association for colour illustrations | 32pp | Hardback | £10.99 Waldorf birthday story accompanied by Steiner/Waldorf Early Childhood soft, ethereal illustration, which together create a beautiful picture book which Education Nativity Plays for Children: can be personalised for each child. LOUISE DEFOREST (ED) Celebrating Christmas through colour illustrations | 32pp | Hardback | £12.99 24 delightful stories from the corners of Movement and Music the globe, along with 10 delicious child- WILMA ELLERSIEK Find out more on p.16 friendly recipes. Everything you need to perform a b/w illustrations | 148pp | £12.99 nativity play with children – music, lyrics and movements plus advice on You might also be interested The Knottles props and costumes. in our selection of Stories & NANCY MELLON colour illustrations | 176pp | £16.99 Class Readers on p.22 for more Two children meet the Knottles, seasonal story collections. guardians of the pine trees, who inspire them to take care of their trees. colour illustrations | 32pp | £9.99

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 19 06/04/2018 09:55:56 The story of King Beetle Tamer The classic tales of master storyteller Isabel Wyatt can enchant, captivate and inspire students. Magical Wonder Tales transports children and adults alike to a world of faraway places and heroic deeds. We hope you enjoy this extract from The Story of King Beetle Tamer.

rfeo was born on the same day “Och, he’s a broth of a boy!” she “I’m doing this for your sake, love that his father died. wheezed, which is something people of my life, my treasure,” she told him. One evening, one year later, said in Ireland to mean that he looked “What kind of mother would I be if I when Orfeo was asleep in an like a good, strong baby. let a falling wall stop you from being Ooak cradle in his mother’s kitchen, an “Indeed, he is,” agreed his mother, king?” old travelling woman knocked at the just like any mother would. Orfeo didn’t complain, and went to door of the tumbledown cottage. She “He’ll grow into a happy young sleep in the meadow. But each time he asked Orfeo’s mother for a bit of bread man,” said the old woman. lay down in the grass, he was worried to eat. “Indeed, he will,” said his mother. about hurting lots of insects and “He will die in his bed,” said the old creeping things. So he would stamp “The summer that Orfeo woman. three times to warn them, and give became a happy young “Indeed we do, around here,” said them time to get safely away. And away his mother. they all flew and scuttled and scurried man, his mother made “But you don’t die young, or from for dear life. him leave his box bed being crushed by a falling wall,” said But as soon as Orfeo had settled by the kitchen chimney the old woman, “as this young boy down, looking up at the evening star in might do. But, if he’s lucky, he will be the sunset sky, back they all came. wall, and sent him to king after the king.” “He is as sweet as a long streak sleep outdoors.” The summer that Orfeo became a of honey,” cried the ladybirds, each happy young man (as tall and skinny as standing on her six legs to admire “Come in and rest by the fire while two yards of pump water), his mother him. “And, look, his nose has ladybird you eat,” invited Orfeo’s mother. made him leave his box bed by the freckles all over it!” While the old woman rested by the kitchen chimney wall, and sent him to “What is more, he is kind,” said their fire, she peered into the cradle at the sleep outdoors, as far away from walls menfolk, each waving his two front sleeping child. as he could get. legs to mark his words. “From now on, he is our friend and king.”

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 20 06/04/2018 09:55:58 The creeping things told the field In fact, they tucked themselves But already the birds had begun to mice, and the field mice told the birds. away so well that at first Orfeo hardly put on their courting colours, and to When Orfeo woke at dawn, he had a knew they were there. But as they grew choose their sweethearts; and only a welcome fit for a French king, with the more at home, they woke up now and fortnight later came St Valentine’s Day, songbirds making chamber music, the then and crept out of their beds to keep when the birds get married. Pair by pair butterflies fluttering about him, and all him company. The crickets would sing they came to Orfeo, and bowed to him the little meadow creatures standing on the hearth in the dusk when Orfeo with their wing tips on their hearts, round and bowing like real courtiers. sat by the fire. On days of winter sun, and told him he was their friend and And all that summer, Orfeo slept out butterflies hanging with folded wings king. They asked if they could please in the meadow. in dark corners would flutter to his build their nests on the outside of his finger tip, to bask in the warmth. The cottage – the starlings in the thatch, the “The creeping things told mice would creep out from their holes jackdaws in the chimney, the swallows the field mice, and the in the skirting board and sit up to beg under the eaves, the bluetits in the ivy, field mice told the birds.” for crumbs, their whiskers twitching, and the robins in the crumbling niches their eyes as bright as beads. in the wall. When autumn came, Orfeo’s mother One day, Orfeo’s neighbours came to “With all my heart, yes!” cried Orfeo. died. And as the nights grew longer and him and said, “Orfeo, you must get your What a coming and going there was colder, Orfeo thought, “While she was cottage in order. Winter is the best time then, with beakfuls of sticks and straw alive, I slept outdoors so she wouldn’t to do repairs, when you’re not busy and hay and mud and horsehair and worry. But in her heart she knew that with other things. Tell us when you’re everything else good for home-making. you must face danger, not run away ready, and we’ll give you a hand.” And when the nests were finished and from it. What will happen will happen, full of eggs, each mother bird kept them wherever I sleep.” “Beetles’ wing cases shut warm with the living quilt of her own So he came indoors and slept in the body, and a choir of proud fathers sang box bed in the kitchen again, snug and with a click, and shrews’ around Orfeo’s tumbledown cottage! cosy against the warm chimney wall. tails vanished like bits Orfeo’s neighbours came to him Soon the night frosts came: nine of string, as they tucked again, and said, “Orfeo, that chimney white ones in a row, and then a black wall will fall down around your ears if one which left the meadow burned up themselves away in each you do not mend it, and soon we shall with its freezing fire. When Orfeo went nook and cranny.” be too busy to help you.” outside on the tenth morning, he heard little voices coming from the ruined Orfeo thanked them and said, “Let’s If you’re inspired by Isabel Wyatt’s grass. “Orfeo, Orfeo, you are our friend put it off until spring. I have winter storytelling, why not discover the rest and king. We can’t stay in this frosty guests and it would be a pity to disturb of the story with your class? grass. Please can we spend the winter them.” in the walls of your cottage?” The winter wore on but then on “With all my heart, yes!” cried February 1st, St Bridget’s Day, with the Orfeo. He held the kitchen door wide first smell of spring on the way, Orfeo’s open and all the little creatures flew, winter guests woke wide awake and scuttled and scurried inside. Beetles’ streamed outdoors again. wing cases shut with a click, and “Now I can put my cottage in order,” shrews’ tails vanished like bits of string, said Orfeo. as they tucked themselves away in each nook and cranny.

King Beetle Tamer is just one of fifteen Isabel Wyatt (1901-1992) was born magical wonder tales in this collection by in England and wrote many books for master storyteller Isabel Wyatt. The stories children. She spent many years teaching are full of magic and unicorns, fairies and young children and was then, until her palaces, roses and gold, which will transport retirement in 1965, co-director of studies children to a world of faraway places and at Hawkwood College in Gloucestershire. heroic deeds. You can find many of Wyatt’s enchanting story collections on p.23–24.

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The Adventures of Scoochie Mouse The Blue Forest: Bedtime Stories The Easter Story Book THERESA ROACH MELIA for the Nights of the Week INEKE VERSCHUREN (ED) ILLUSTRATED BY MARCIA A. NILSSON LUKE FISCHER Over 30 legends and folk tales reflect This gentle story for young children ILLUSTRATED BY STEPHANIE YOUNG the season around Easter and early follows Scoochie and her friends though A magical collection of seven bedtime summer. The stories follow the cycle of the seasons as they learn about the values stories – one for each night of the week, seasonal festivals, including Ascension of the farm: a deep reverence for nature each featuring one of the seven colours and Whitsun. Authors include the and kindness towards all creatures. of the rainbow. For 6-9 year olds. Grimm brothers, Chekhov and Lagerlöf. b/w illustrations | 154pp | Classes 1-3 | £9.99 colour illus. | 48pp | HB | Classes 1-3 | £12.99 b/w illustrations | 240pp | Classes 1-6 | £14.99 Brother Francis: The Eight-Year-Old Legend Book And There Was Light: The Life of Francis of Assisi ISABEL WYATT From the Creation of the World JAKOB STREIT A collection of enchanting eastern to Noah’s Ark A retelling of the life of Francis of Assisi adventure tales for children who are JAKOB STREIT for children aged six and up. learning to become clever and brave. 10 b/w illus. | 120pp | Classes 2-4 | £8.99 A collection of stories from the Old b/w illustrations | 56pp | Classes 1-8 | £9.99 Testament for children, for Steiner- Waldorf Year 3. Christ Legends A Favourite Collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales: Cinderella, Little Red b/w illustrations | 112pp | Class 3 | £12.99 SELMA LAGERLÖF Riding Hood, Snow White and ILLUSTRATED BY RONALD HEUNINCK The Bee Book the Seven Dwarfs and many more Lagerlöf brings the stories of Jesus’ classic stories JAKOB STREIT birth and childhood truly to life in this An exquisite story for children which wonderful collection of tales for children. JACOB & WILHELM GRIMM brings the world of honeybees to life. In 12 b/w illustrations | 160pp | Classes 2-8 | £8.99 ILLUS. BY ANASTASIYA ARCHIPOVA the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum it’s useful A beautiful collection of thirteen for Years 4 and 5 (age 10-12), and for The Christmas Story Book Brothers’ Grimm fairy tales, in a new introducing the theme of sexuality. INEKE VERSCHUREN (ED) child-friendly size. b/w illustrations | 90pp | Classes 4-5 | £9.99 Includes over 50 Christmas stories, from col illus. | 176pp | HB | Classes 1-8 | £9.99 The Beejum Book Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Jeanna Oterdahl, Peter Rosegger, Ruth ALICE O. HOWELL The Garden Adventures of Sawyer and Henry van Dyke and others. Griswald the Gnome When Teak is lonely she travels to b/w illus. | 430pp | HB | Classes 1-6 | £16.99 the imaginary world she has created DANIELA DRESCHER filled with fascinating characters. This Griswald the gnome makes friends and insightful book explores a child’s instinct has fun adventures in this beautifully to use imagination to offer comfort and illustrated and delightful chapter deal with anxiety. storybook from Daniela Drescher, the 304pp | Classes 3-8 | £16.99 much-loved creator of In the Land of Fairies and the Little Fairy series. col illus. | 12pp | HB | Class 1-4 | £12.99 NEW

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 22 06/04/2018 09:56:02 Geron and Virtus: A Fateful Invisible Guardians: True Stories Lara’s First Christmas Encounter of Two Youths: of Fateful Encounters ALICE O. HOWELL A German and a Roman JAKOB STREIT ILLUSTRATED BY MAGGIE MAILER JAKOB STREIT A remarkable collection of true stories A warm, luminous story about the real Story of two boys who meet during the for children about guiding forces, such meaning of Christmas, from the author of Roman campaign to conquer Germanic as angels, intervening in human destiny. The Beejum Book. tribes. For Steiner-Waldorf Classes 6 and b/w illustrations | 64pp | Classes 6-8 | £7.99 b/w illustrations | 48pp | Classes 3-8 | £7.99 7 (age 12 to 14). 8 b/w illus. | 188pp | Classes 6-7 | £9.99 Journey to the Promised Land: Legends of King Arthur The Path of the People of Israel ISABEL WYATT Hay for My Ox and Other Stories: from Abraham’s Calling to David’s A fresh retelling of the fascinating legends A First Reading Book for Waldorf Dream of King Arthur’s castle and his Schools JAKOB STREIT Knights. ISABEL WYATT A collection of stories from the Old b/w illus. | 168pp | Classes 3-6 | £8.99 A classic early reading book for Steiner- Testament for children. Waldorf Classes 1 and 2 (age 6-8). 15 b/w illustrations | 174pp | Class 3 | £12.99 Liputto: Stories of Gnomes and Trolls colour illus. | 104pp | Classes 1-2 | £7.99 The King of Ireland’s Son: JAKOB STREIT An Illustrated Treasury of Hans An Irish Folk Tale A collection of stories for children about Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales: gnomes, elves, trolls and other little folk. PADRAIC COLUM 10 b/w illustrations | 60pp | Class 1 | £12.99 The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, ILLUSTRATED BY WILLY POGANY The Princess and the Pea and A true Irish wonder tale: a coming many more classic stories of age story of the youngest son of Little Bee Sunbeam HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN the King Ireland, who sets off on an JAKOB STREIT ILLUS. BY ANASTASIYA ARCHIPOVA impossible quest. A lovely story of bee-life in a hive, This beautiful collection of Andersen’s b/w illustrations | 224pp | Class 2 | £9.99 suitable for children. Introduces issues best-loved fairy tales, sumptiously of sexuality for the Steiner-Waldorf illustrated by Anastasiya Archipova, is The Kingdom of Beautiful Colours curriculum. designed for little hands and will make a and Other Stories b/w illustrations | 96pp | Classes 5+ | £8.99 stunning addition to any bookshelf. ISABEL WYATT colour illus. | 216pp | HB | Classes 1-8 | £9.99 A collection of seven enchanting tales Magical Wonder Tales: The Invisible Boat from master storyteller Isabel Wyatt, for King Beetle Tamer and Other Stories children aged nine and up. ISABEL WYATT ERIC G. MÜLLER 160pp | Classes 2-4 | £8.99 An magical novel for 8 to 11 year A collection of fifteen magical wonder olds which teaches the importance of tales from master storyteller Isabel Wyatt, listening, planning and courage. for children aged seven and up. 152pp | Classes 2-4 | £8.99 336pp | Classes 3-8 | £14.99 Read an extract on p.20

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STORIES & CLASS READERS (continued)

Mary’s Little Donkey and the The Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book Three Grimm’s Fairy Tales Escape to Egypt ISABEL WYATT PETER STEBBING (ED) GUNHILD SEHLIN These magical tales take us through the ILLUSTRATED BY GERARD WAGNER ILLUSTRATED BY JAN VERHEIJEN highlights of the year, through festivals and A beautiful collection of artwork An exciting and beautifully told version birthdays. inspired by Grimm fairy tales. Includes of the Christmas story and the early years b/w illus. | 160pp | Classes 1–3 | £8.99 a lecture by Rudolf Steiner on the of little Jesus’s life, from a unique, child- significance of fairy tales. friendly perspective. Snip Snap Snout!: A Waldorf Reader colour illus. | 88pp | HB | Classes 1–5 | £20.00 14 b/w illus. | 144pp | Classes 2–6 | £9.99 for Third Grade Extra Lesson Work ARTHUR M. PITTIS We Will Build a Temple: The Path Michaelmas ILLUSTRATED BY AUSA M. PEACOCK of Israel from King Solomon to John the Baptist DAVID MITCHELL A teacher’s resource book of stories based on fables and saints legends, with JAKOB STREIT An abundant selection of stories, tales and progressively developing vocabulary and legends which explain why Michaelmas A collection of stories from the Old sentence structure. continues to be such an important festival, and New Testaments, for children. For 25 b/w illus. | 82pp | Hardback | Class 3 | £7.99 uniting the forces of heaven with the forces Steiner Waldorf Year 3. b/w illustrations | 104pp | Class 3 | £12.99 of the earth and the seasons. Spirit of the Mountain 168pp | colour illus. | Classes 1–8 | £25.00 SHELLEY DAVIDOW What Animals Say to Each Other: A coming of age story set among the 30 Nature Fables in Rhyme Peter and Anneli’s Journey ancient wisdom of South Africa. JAKOB STREIT to the Moon 144pp | Classes 6–8 | £12.99 Bright rhyming verse introduces GERDT VON BASSEWITZ children aged six and up to the ILLUSTRATED BY HANS BALUSCHEK The Star Rider and Anna McLoon: characteristics of different animals. Two Tales from Ireland This classic German children’s adventure 27 b/w illus. | 48pp | Classes 1–8 | £8.99 tells the story of how Peter and Anneli help JAKOB STREIT Mr Zoomzeman bring his leg back from the Two beautiful Irish stories for children The Wise Enchanter: A Journey Moon. exploring issues of life and death, destiny Through the Alphabet and integrity. For Class 6 (age 12) and up. colour illus. | 120pp | HB | Classes 3–5 | £14.99 SHELLEY DAVIDOW 52pp | Classes 6+ | £7.99 Puck the Gnome ILLUS. BY KRYSTYNA KURZYCA JAKOB STREIT Stories of the Saints: A Collection Four children are sent on a quest to rediscover lost letters and unlock the A delightful story for children about the for Children SIEGWART KNIJPENGA treasure of language before wisdom and world of gnomes, addressing issues of light vanish from the world altogether. friendship, honesty and loyalty. Inspirational tales of remarkable people, b/w illustrations | 160pp | Classes 3–5 | £12.99 b/w illus. | 100pp | Classes 1–2 | £12.99 especially selected for their appeal and relevance to children aged 7 to 11. b/w illus. | 224pp | Classes 2–6 | £14.99 NEW

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The Alpha Beta Book: An Fire the Imagination — Write On! The Power of Stories: Nurturing Introduction to Ancient Greek DORIT WINTER Children’s Imagination and KEITH MCCRARY A useful guide for teaches of Classes 6-8 Consciousness A fun, accessible book for learning some (ages 11–14) to help children learn to HORST KORNBERGER basic Ancient Greek. Suitable for adult write creatively, clearly and precisely. Explores the power of Bible stories, fairy beginners and children; ideal for Class 5 208pp | Classes 6–8 | £14.99 tales, and the Odysseus, Parsifal and in the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum. Oedipus stories, considering how that b/w illus. | 64pp | Classes 5–6 | £14.99 inc VAT power can be used to help children’s A Journey Through Time healthy development. Andando Caminos: Teaching in Verse and Rhyme 256pp | £9.99 Spanish in Waldorf Schools HEATHER THOMAS (ED) ELENA FORRER An invaluable collection of poetry for Report Verses in Rudolf Steiner’s A treasure trove of resources from use by teachers of children aged 6-14. Art of Education: Healing Forces Hispanic culture for Steiner-Waldorf 368pp | Hardback | Classes 1–8 | £20.00 in Words and Their Rhythms teachers of Spanish. For Classes 1 to 8. HEINZ MÜLLER 326pp | Classes 1–8 | £37.50 Language Teaching in Steiner- An exploration of Rudolf Steiner’s Waldorf Schools: Insights from recommendation that class teachers An English Manual for the Rudolf Steiner create verses for their pupils to be Elementary School JOHANNES KIERSCH inserted into their annual school reports. DOROTHY HARRER Discusses Steiner’s view of the nature 120pp | Classes 1–8 | £7.99 A useful teacher’s resource for teaching of language in relation to child English language and composition in development. For Steiner-Waldorf Spelling by Hand: Teaching Years 2 to 8 (age 7 to 14) in the Steiner- language teachers. Spelling in a Waldorf School: Waldorf school curriculum. 144pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 A Guide for Class Teachers 144pp | Classes 2–8 | £12.99 JEREMY HERRMANN The Power of Grammar: Fairy Tales and Art Mirrored in A little booklet which offers simple but Human Consciousness A Phenomenological Approach effective techniques to help children ANNE GREER MONICA GOLD make sense of difficult English spelling. Draws on teachers’ classroom experience 36pp | Pamphlet | Classes 1-8 | £7.99 Explores the connection between sto present creative approaches to creative art and fairy tales, and the grammar teaching. influence and inspiration they can be to colour illus. | 172pp | Classes 1–8 | £20.00 Storytelling for Life: Why Stories our modern minds. Matter and Ways of Telling Them colour illus. | 196pp | Classes 1–8 | £25.00 JOSIE FELCE Introduces the value of storytelling throughout life and offers practical advice on how to tell stories. 136pp | £14.99

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LANGUAGE & LITERATURE MYTHOLOGY (continued) & HISTORY

The Sun with Loving Light The Waldorf Book The Age of Discovery STEPHEN BLOOMQUIST (ED) of Animal Poetry CHARLES KOVACS ILLUSTRATED BY PAMELA DALTON DAVID KENNEDY (ED) An overview of world history from the A beautiful collection of verses, poems, The biggest collection of animal poetry time of the Crusades to the Renaissance. songs and stories for children in Classes ever published. 224pp | Class 7 | £10.99 1 to 3 in Waldorf schools. 384pp | Classes 1–8 | £20.00 col illus. | 110pp | HB | Classes 1–3 | £22.50 The Age of Revolution The Waldorf Book of Poetry: CHARLES KOVACS Teaching Foreign Languages: The Discover the Power of Imagination An overview of world history from Steiner-Waldorf School Approach DAVID KENNEDY (ED) the 18th to 20th centuries, including ERHARD DAHL 425 poems from classic and modern the French, American and Industrial A useful handbook for anyone interested poets for parents, teachers and children. Revolutions. in how Waldorf schools teach foreign 352pp | Classes 1–8 | £20.00 240pp | Class 8 | £9.99 languages. 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 Who Is Harry Potter? Ancient Greece FRANS LUTTERS CHARLES KOVACS Verses and Poems An esoteric study of the archetypes A retelling of Greek mythology and and characters behind the Harry Potter history as recommended for Steiner and Stories to Tell stories. Waldorf Classes 5 and 6 (age 10-12). DOROTHY HARRER 72pp | Classes 6–8 | £11.99 176pp | Classes 5–6 | £9.99 A rich collection of delightful tales and rhymes to accompany everyday life. The Wisdom of Fairy Tales Ancient Rome 92pp | Classes 1–4 | £9.99 RUDOLF MEYER CHARLES KOVACS Rediscovers the lost meaning of fairy An overview of Roman history as tales and shows how they can have a recommended for Steiner-Waldorf Waldorf Alphabet Book profound influence on the developing Class 6 (age 11-12). FAMKE ZONNEVELD mind of a child. 224pp | Class 6 | £9.99 The best-selling alphabet book for 268pp | £12.99 parents and teachers who want to At the Hot Gates: An Account of encourage the most natural development Word Mastery Primer: For First the Battle of Thermopylae in children. It is ideal for use at home and Second Graders DONALD SAMSON and in the classroom. HUGH RENWICK (ED) A dramatic account of the battle colour illus. | 64pp | Classes 1–2 | £11.99 between the Spartans and the Persians. A resource for helping children learn to b/w illustrations | 80pp | Classes 5–6 | £5.99 read, bringing the sounds of words and phonemes to life. 128pp | Classes 1–2 | £14.99

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 26 06/04/2018 09:56:14 Chapters from Ancient History: Hellas: Memory, Reflection, Myths of the World In Biographic Vein Expectation: Ancient Greek PADRAIC COLUM DOROTHY HARRER (ED) Culture in a New Perspective A treasure trove of stories from the A collection of insights into the cultures WILLEM FREDERIK VELTMAN ancient world, retold by one of Ireland’s of Ancient India, Persia, Babylon, A fascinating overview of ancient greatest storytellers. Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece. Greek culture, myth and history. Perfect b/w illustrations | 352pp | Classes 5+ | £20.00 152pp | Classes 5 and 10 | £16.99 background reading for a module on Ancient Greece. Norse Hero Tales: The King and 70 b/w illus. | 372pp | Classes 5–6 | £22.50 the Green Angelica and Other The Demon Slayer Stories SAMUEL MILLS Homer’s Odyssey: A Retelling by ISABEL WYATT A coming-of-age tale drawing on Hindu Isabel Wyatt Colourful and dramatic stories from mythology and life in ancient India. ISABEL WYATT the ‘men of the North’, offering heroes 192pp | Classes 6-8 | £12.99 A retelling of the wonderful Greek epic, and villains in tales of love and daring, suitable for children aged 8 and up. power and cunning. The Dream Song of Olaf Asteson: 10 b/w illus. | 176pp | Classes 5–6 | £8.99 b/w illustrations | 112pp | Class 4 | £8.99 An Ancient Norwegian Folksong of the Holy Nights Legends of the Norse Kings: The Norse Mythology JANET JORDAN Saga of King Ragnar Goatskin and CHARLES KOVACS An epic Scandinavian narrative brought The Dream of King Alfdan A retelling of the stories of Norse to life with luminous illustrations. ISABEL WYATT mythology as recommended for Steiner- 10 colour illus. | 64pp | HB | Classes 3-8 | The legendary adventures of Norse Waldorf Class 4 (age 9-10). £16.99 heroes, dragons, princesses and destiny. 224pp | Class 4 | £9.99 The Falconer: A Story of Frederick b/w illustrations | 112pp | Classes 2–8 | £8.99 Roman Lives II of Hohenstaufen Milon and the Lion CHRISTOPHER SBLENDORIO DOROTHY HARRER JAKOB STREIT A detailed and fascinating history of the An engaging account of the life and Young slave boy Milon has adventures times of Federico II, who became Holy Roman world. around the ancient Mediterranean, colour illustrations | 124pp | Class 6 | £20.00 Roman Emperor in the 13th century. finally finding freedom with a group of 104pp | Classes 6+ | £8.99 early Christians in Rome. The Fire Bringer 10 b/w illustrations | 176pp | Class 6 | £8.99 Three Knight Tales SAMUEL MILLS JAKOB STREIT An epic story that brings the great A stirring collection of three medieval Olympian gods and goddesses to life for tales for children. juvenile readers. b/w illustrations | 76pp | Classes 6–7 | £9.99 128pp | Classes 6–8 | £12.99

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 27 06/04/2018 09:56:18 Myth, magic and mathematics Using only three simple tools – String, Straight-edge and Shadow – humans revealed the basic principles and constructions of elementary geometry. In this fascinating extract, Julia E. Diggins imagines how Pythagoras might have taught his famous theorem.

isten to our baffling problem. “Here the two sides of the right they guard these numbers closely, but we Here is the Egyptian right angle are equal, and the same relation have found some of them. In Babylon, a triangle, the one used by the holds.” With his pointer, he indicated priestly astrologer whispered to me that rope-stretchers, where the sides one triangle and the related squares, there was a secret about this mystery Lof the right angle are 3 units and 4 and they all counted together. that had never been penetrated.” units, and the hypotenuse is 5 units.” “Look! Two triangles plus two Now the attention was almost Pythagoras drew it on a sandy space triangles equals four triangles. The breathless as Pythagoras intoned and then added a square on each side, total area of the squares on the two solemnly: “That secret is our problem! and inner squares. sides of this right triangle is likewise Would the same relation always be true “There! You can see, by counting equal to the area of the square on its of any right triangle, no matter what or by calculating the square units, that hypotenuse.” the length of its sides, and how could the total area of the squares on the two you show this?” sides of the right angle is equal to the At this dramatic moment, he area of the square on the hypotenuse.” withdrew behind a curtain, while He beckoned to the newcomers, attendants played on stringed who crowded close, multiplying and instruments to indicate an intermission. counting at the same time: Pandemonium broke out among the (3 × 3) + (4 × 4) = (5 × 5) assembled initiates. All the newcomers 9 + 16 = 25 began talking at once, making until all their heads nodded in suggestions, arguing and shouting. The agreement. older mathematicians, who had worked “Now let me show you a Greek on the problem themselves, were less design involving right triangles.” He Again he waited until the noisy but even more excited. drew their attention to the tiled floor newcomers nodded their assent, and Finally Pythagoras reappeared. on which they were standing, and then then continued: Silence instantly fell over the group as traced a similar pattern on the sand, “In India the priests know other he resumed his lecture. outlining the important parts. constructions that give similar results; “I will now show you how to

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 28 06/04/2018 09:56:21 construct a wondrous figure which square and four equal right triangles. “Watch well! I have only to swing discloses that the answer is always yes! Now I will ask you to look more closely and push these four triangles around, Today I will just draw it quickly, so you at this figure.” like this, so that they fit perfectly into can all see my great discovery.” Pythagoras beckoned to the the four corners of the frame, and my He signalled to attendants to smooth attendants, who poured coloured sand frame is now completely filled by the the sand, and began to draw, using his from jars onto the parts of the drawing, same four equal right triangles plus the pointer to emphasise his words. so the pattern showed plainly. square on the hypotenuse! “Look again!” He used his pointer and spoke with care. “All the triangles, you know, are equal; each is the same triangle in a different position. Now, notice how the triangles touch the squares, especially Triangle 2. You can see that the small square is the square on the short side of the triangle. And “Watch this beautiful construction! the medium square is the square on the I make a square frame, any size, and long side of the triangle. So my frame in its corner I place a small square, is completely filled by four equal right “Therefore, in any right triangle, the any size. Next I draw straight lines, triangles plus the square on the short area of the square on one side plus the continuing the sides of the small square side and the square on the long side!” area of the square on the other side will to the edge of the frame. add up to the area of the square on the “Do you see what my frame now hypotenuse!” contains? A small square and a medium A mighty shout – we can imagine square, and two equal rectangles. – went up from the assembled group. “And next – we are almost there – For this theorem was a true landmark I simply add diagonal lines across the in the development of geometry by rectangles! the Pythagoreans. Almost all later geometric work involving lengths and measurement was based upon it. And this style of solving problems, Pythagoras paused while a low especially equations, by diagramming murmur of awe rose from the initiates. them, would remain a chief trait of “Now watch!” he intoned. And Greek geometry. while they all craned their necks to see and the attendants poured more “This is the figure I need. My frame coloured sand, Pythagoras drew his now contains a small square, a medium final masterful figure.

String, Straight-edge and Shadow weaves Julia E. Diggins studied mathematics and history and legend to explain the story psychology in Washington, D.C. and worked of geometry and the discoveries of the with members of the Maryland University most famous mathematicians. Through Mathematics Project on the preparation of stories, clear diagrams and engaging a new curriculum. illustrations, students will be able to learn key Paperback | 160pp | £9.99 mathematical concepts in a memorable way.

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 29 06/04/2018 09:56:23 LOWER SCHOOL (continued)

MAKING MATHS MATHS MEANINGFUL

Active Arithmetic!: Movement Mathematics in Nature, Space A Student’s Workbook for and Mathematics Teaching in the and Time Mathematics in Class 6 Lower Grades of a Waldorf School JOHN BLACKWOOD JAMIE YORK HENNING ANDERSON A teachers’ book for maths covering A maths workbook with room for working. Explores techniques for making maths ‘Mathematics in Nature’, ‘Pythagoras 60pp | Class 6 | £6.99 lessons more engaging and real for and Numbers’, ‘Platonic Solids’ and children, using movement and drawing. ‘Rhythm and Cycles’. Teacher’s pack 216pp | Classes 1–4 | £12.99 colour illus. | 216pp | Classes 7–8 | £16.99 10 books & free answer booklet £50.00 Mathematics Lessons A Student’s Workbook for First Steps in Proven Geometry for for the Sixth Grade Mathematics in Class 7 the Upper Elementary Grades ERNST SCHUBERTH JAMIE YORK ERNST SCHUBERTH A comprehensive curriculum for A maths workbook with room for working. A resource for teaching geometry, teaching maths. 112pp | Class 7 | £9.99 focusing on triangles and platonic solids. 156pp | Class 6 | £14.99 136 b/w illustrations | 96pp | Class 6 | £12.99 Teacher’s pack Numerica: 10 books & free answer booklet £70.00 Geometry and the Imagination: A Waldorf Book of Counting The Imaginative Treatment of A Student’s Workbook for GLORIA KEMP Mathematics in Class 8 Geometry in Waldorf Education ILLUS. BY ELSA MURRAY-LAFRENZ JAMIE YORK A. RENWICK SHEEN A story which brings numbers to young A comprehensive resource book for children by drawing on the natural A maths workbook with room for working. geometry teachers. world around them. 60pp | Class 8 | £6.99 200+ b/w illus. | 256pp | Classes 6–12 | £20.00 colour illus. | 36pp | HB | Classes 1–2 | £14.99 Teacher’s pack Geometry Lessons in the Waldorf 10 books & free answer booklet £50.00 School: Volume 2: Freehand Form String, Straight-edge and Shadow: The Story of Geometry A Teacher’s Source Book for Drawing and Basic Geometric Mathematics in Classes 1 to 5 Construction in Grades 4 and 5 JULIA E. DIGGINS JAMIE YORK AND NETTIE FABRIE ERNST SCHUBERTH This engaging book weaves A comprehensive book for teachers of 90 b/w illus. | 86pp | Classes 4–5 | £14.99 history and legend to explain the story of geometry and mathematics in Classes 1-5. Math Lessons for Elementary the discoveries of the most famous 128pp | Classes 1-5 | £20.00 Grades mathematicians. A useful and inspiring book for those teaching geometry. A Teacher’s Source Book for DOROTHY HARRER 112 b/w illus. | 160pp | Classes 5–8 | £9.99 Mathematics in Classes 6 to 8 A wealth of imaginative maths lessons JAMIE YORK for class teachers. Read an extract on p.28 A comprehensive book for teachers of 132pp | Classes 1–6 | £11.99 mathematics in Classes 6-8. b/w illustrations | 192pp | Classes 6-8 | £20.00

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Astronomy for Young and Old: A The Human Being Physics is Fun: Beginner’s Guide to the Visible Sky and the Animal World A Sourcebook for Teachers WALTER KRAUL CHARLES KOVACS ROBERTO TROSTLI A perfect introduction to astronomy, A comparison of animals and humans, A comprehensive teaching resource for with or without a telescope. as recommended for Steiner-Waldorf physics for Steiner-Waldorf Years 6 to 8 120 colour illus. | 168pp | Classes 1–8 | £16.99 curriculum Classes 4 and 5 (age 9-11). (age 12 to 14). 144pp | Classes 4–5 | £9.99 b/w illus. | 286pp | Spiral | Classes 6–8 | £25.00 Botany The Living World of the Plants: CHARLES KOVACS Sensible Physics Teaching: A resource for Steiner-Waldorf teachers A Book for Children and Students of Nature For Grades Six to Eight for botany. MICHAEL D’ALEO 112pp | Classes 5–6 | £9.99 GERBERT GROHMANN AND STEPHEN EDELGLASS ILLUSTRATED BY LINDA LOMBARDI Chemistry for Waldorf Middle An essential book for any science A lovely resource for bringing botany or class teacher who wants to bring Schools: Grades Six, Seven alive in Steiner-Waldorf schools. interactive, experiential science into and Eight: A Compendium of over 50 b/w illus. | 104pp | Class 5+ | £12.99 their classroom. Phenomenological Experiments 108pp | Classes 6–8 | £14.99 ROBERT SONNER Mr Goethe’s Garden A rich resource book which offers a DIANA COHN comprehensive set of ideas for teaching ILLUSTRATED BY PAUL MIROCHA Trailing Clouds of Glory: Essays phenomenological chemistry. Brings Goethe’s ideas on the plant world on Human Sexuality and the col illus. | 212pp | Spiral | Classes 6–8 | £65.00 to life for younger children. Education of Youth colour illus. | 32pp | HB | Classes 1-3 | £14.99 DOUGLAS GERWIN (ED) Geology and Astronomy Brings together insights from CHARLES KOVACS Muscles and Bones experienced Waldorf teachers into Explores first the rocks, soil and CHARLES KOVACS how to approach the important but mountains of Earth; and then the A teacher resource book for human challenging subjects of gender and movement of our universe, the sun, physiology and anatomy. sexuality. Suitable for Classes 7 to 12. moon and stars. 10 b/w illus. | 208pp | Classes 7–8 | £9.99 455pp | Classes 7–8 | £25.00 160pp | Classes 6–7 | £9.99 Physics for Waldorf Middle Schools: The Wonders of Waldorf Growing Sustainable Children: Grades Six, Seven and Eight: A Chemistry: From a Teacher’s A Garden Teacher’s Guide Compendium of Phenomenological Notebook, Grades 7-9 DAVID S. MITCHELL RONNI SANDS Experiments AND WILLOW SUMMER ROBERT SONNER A complete curriculum for chemstry for Years 7 to 9 in Steiner-Waldorf schools. An indispensable resource for anyone A rich resource book for Steiner-Waldorf b/w illus. | 272pp | Classes 7–9 | £20.00 teaching gardening to children, teachers which offers a comprehensive set including a comprehensive curriculum of ideas for teaching physics. and activities. col illus. | 344pp | Spiral | Classes 6–8 | £65.00 12 col photos | 226pp | Classes 6–10 | £20.00

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 31 06/04/2018 09:56:31 Getting creative with carving Children love learning to whittle as part of their handwork lessons. These beginner-level projects from Easy Wood Carving for Children, by former Waldorf teacher Frank Egholm, are a perfect introduction to working with wood.

Pencils

It’s great for children to be able to use the objects they create in lessons. These pencils are simple to make and can be decorated as much or as little as each child would like. You’ll need: • Branch, the same length as the pencil lead, diameter 1–1.5 cm • Pencil lead, diameter at least 2 mm, but better 3–5 mm as it is less likely to break. You can 1. Clamp the branch to a table or tight once the branch has dried buy lead and coloured pencil bench and drill a hole for the and shrunk. leads in most craft and art pencil as far as the drill reaches. If 3. Whittle figures or patterns while stores. necessary, make the hole slightly the branch is still fresh. larger by moving the drill back • Drill, same diameter as 4. Once the pencil lead fits securely, and forth while drilling. pencil lead whittle the tip. Work carefully so • Whittling knife 2. Carefully push the pencil lead you don’t whittle away too much • Paint for decoration (optional) into the hole. If you use fresh of the pencil lead. branches the pencil lead will sit 5. Paint or decorate.

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Knobs for drawers or cupboards and coat hooks are simple to make, but can be fun and satisfying projects for whittling beginners. Why not have each child make their own coat hook for the classroom? You’ll need: • Branch, diameter 2.5 cm, length 1. Whittle the knob or hook 12–15 cm shape towards the centre • Whittling knife of the branch following • Saw the direction of the arrows • Drill in Figure 1. By using this • Screw method, you won’t need to • Wood glue whittle towards yourself and • Paint, oil or varnish for you can make two knobs or decoration (optional) hooks out of each branch. 2. Separate the knobs or hooks Figure 1 with a saw or knife and round the ends a bit more. 3. Saw the knob or hook to the length you would like it. 4. There are several ways to attach a knob or hook (see Figure 2): • Insert a long screw through a Figure 2 hole drilled right through the knob/hook (see Figure 2a). • Screw from the back into the knob/hook (Figure 2b). a b c • Drill a hole in the back of the knob/hook, saw the screw head off and glue into the knob/hook (Figure 2c).

We love hearing about the nature explorations and crafts you make in your classroom. Check out #WaldorfEducation and #Handwork on Instagram to be inspired and to share your own class projects. @FlorisBooks

Easy Wood Carving for Children contains Frank Egholm is a lecturer, author and more than fifty whittling projects, as well as former woodwork teacher who worked for tips on technique, knife safety and gathering many years at the Rudolf Steiner School in wood. Perfect inspiration for handwork Vordingborg, Denmark. Frank also designs lessons, each project is graded from simple his own wooden toys. to challenging, and all can be refined and adapted for more experienced whittlers. Paperback | 128pp | £9.99

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 33 06/04/2018 09:58:24 LOWER SCHOOL: CREATIVE ARTS CRAFTS & ACTIVITIES

The Advent Craft and Activity Crafts Through the Year Earthwise: Environmental Crafts Book: Stories, crafts, recipes and THOMAS AND PETRA BERGER and Activities With Young Children poems for the Christmas season Step-by-step instructions for making a CAROL PETRASH CHRISTEL DHOM range of toys and decorations to help Full of practical ideas for nature crafts A fabulous family resource for the children engage with festivals and and seasonal activities to encourage Christmas season with a wonderful seasons of the year. young children to be aware of their traditional German flavour. colour illus. | 176pp | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 environment. Carefully written and colour illus. | 144pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 beautifully illustrated. Creative Felt: Felting and Making 80 illus. | 160pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 More Toys and Gifts Autumn and Winter Activities ANGELIKA WOLK-GERCHE A Felt Farm Come Rain or Shine: Seasonal Now in an expanded edition, this book ROTRAUD REINHARD Crafts and Games for Children teaches you how to make felt itself, as A unique craft book containing step-by- STEFANIE PFISTER well as an even wider range of toys and step instructions to make an entire farm A brightly illustrated book packed with gifts, such as beautiful hats, brooches out of felt, including a family, animals indoor and outdoor crafts and activities, and dolls, with no previous experience. and the farmyard itself. plus fun facts to engage children during colour illus. | 192pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 colour illus. | 160pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 the colder, wetter months. colour illus. | 104pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 Creative Wool: Making Woollen Feltcraft: Crafts with Children Making Dolls, Gifts and Toys PETRA BERGER Autumn Nature Activities KARIN NEUSCHÜTZ for Children A lively craft book which shows how Detailed instructions for a range of to make toys, jewellery, dolls and lots lively and creative ideas, such as small IRMGARD KUTSCH more from fleece and yarn. A range of dolls, finger and glove puppets, animals, AND BRIGITTE WALDEN projects for children of all ages. finger- and wrist-bands, little gifts and Nature activities to help children engage colour illus. | 80pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 even wall tapestries. with the autumn season. Includes colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 fruit picking, basket-making, building Earth, Water, Fire and Air: Playful shelters, feeding the birds, working with Explorations in the Four Elements Finger Strings: A Book of Cat’s beeswax and making paper. WALTER KRAUL Cradles and String Figures colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 Encourages children’s interest in the MICHAEL TAYLOR The Christmas Craft Book natural world with a range of activities, Over 80 inventive and imaginative shapes and figures to create with finger THOMAS BERGER games and toys to make using one of the four elements. Also introduces strings. Making crib figures, lanterns, angels, some basic science, such as gravity, col illus. | 144pp | Spiral | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 Advent calendars and a variety of momentum and light refraction, in fun Christmas decorations will help children and creative ways. engage with Advent and Christmas. colour illus. | 104pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 colour illus. | 80pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 34 06/04/2018 09:58:27 First Steps In Natural Dyeing Magical Window Stars Making Natural Felt Animals JOAN ALMON FRÉDÉRIQUE GUÉRET ROTRAUD REINHARD Recipes and resources for colouring Step-by-step instructions for creating 25 From lazy cats to jumping squirrels, this fabric with plant dyes. window stars from tissue paper. richly illustrated book offers step-by- 34pp | Spiral bound | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 colour illus. | 120pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 step instructions to create more than 25 different animals, in different stances The Gnome Craft Book Making a Nativity Scene: and sizes, using the authors unique THOMAS AND PETRA BERGER Christmas Figures and Animals ‘building-up’ felt craft method. Gnome crafts offer a wealth of for a Seasonal Display colour illus. | 172pp | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 possibilities for activities with children. VIOLA ULKE This books shows how to make gnomes Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions The Nature Corner: out of walnuts, twigs, wool and paper for make a nativity scene, including all and other media. Celebrating the year’s cycle the main figures, animals and a variety of with seasonal tableaux colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 stables. Also includes themed songs and a Christmas play. M. VAN LEEUWEN AND J. MOESKOPS Green Fingers and Muddy Boots: colour illus. | 112pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 Seasonal nature tables are an invaluable A Year in the Garden for Children way of making children aware of the and Families Making Fairy Tale Scenes changing cycle of the year. With simple IVOR SANTER SYBILLE ADOLPHI materials a series of colourful and effective tableaux can be made. Fun and practical activities to do in the Instructions for making doll scenes from colour illus. | 88pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 garden every month of the year, ranging Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping from growing flowers and vegetables, to Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Tom Thumb, Paper Folding with Children: spotting birds and tracking the weather. Rapunzel, and Snow White and the Seven For 7 to 14-year-olds. Dwarves and many more. Fun and Easy Origami Projects colour illus. | 112pp | Classes 2–6 | £14.99 colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 ALICE HÖRNECKE Fun paper folding projects for children, Making Flower Children fully illustrated with diagrams and tips. Knit Together, Share Together: colour illus. | 64pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 Simple Knitting for All the Family SYBILLE ADOLPHI Detailed step-by-step instructions and MARJA DE HAAN illustrations for making a range of lively, Papercraft A practical and beautifully illustrated creative flower figures. ANGELIKA WOLK-GERCHE book for three generations of knitters. colour illus. | 80pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 Over one hundred things to make colour illus. | 88pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 with paper, including stars, birds and Making More Flower Children animals, masks, windmills and bags. Magic Wool: Creative Pictures and SYBILLE ADOLPHI colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 Tableaux with Natural Sheep’s Wool More lively flower figures to make. The FREYA JAFFKE AND DAGMAR SCHMIDT figures are arranged by time of year and are ideal for decorating a seasonal table. Create beautiful pictures, as well as table- colour illus. | 88pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 top scenes, from unspun sheep’s wool. colour illus. | 80pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99

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CRAFTS & ACTIVITIES (continued)

Sewing Dolls Toy Making: Simple Playthings Winter Nature Activities for KARIN NEUSCHÜTZ to Make for Children Children Patterns, instructions and photographs GUN LEE BLUE IRMGARD KUTSCH AND for making a variety of dolls from A fully illustrated guide to making BRIGITTE WALDEN natural materials. beautiful toys and playthings for Activities for winter include Advent colour illus. | 112pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 children. crafts, working with wool, woodworking colour illus. | 84pp | £17.50 and making things out of clay. Spring and Summer Activities colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 Come Rain or Shine: Seasonal Toymaking with Children The Wonder of Trees: Nature Crafts and Games for Children FREYA JAFFKE Activities for Children STEFANIE PFISTER Step-by-step instructions for making a ANDREA FROMMHERZ AND This practical and brightly illustrated wide variety of toys to help children’s EDITH BIEDERMANN book is packed with indoor and outdoor developing skills, creativity and Stories, songs, games and craft ideas crafts and activities, plus fun facts. imagination at different ages. to help children engage with and learn colour illus. | 120pp | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 colour illus. | 144pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 about the magic and wisdom of trees. colour illus. | 144pp | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 Spring Nature Activities Transparent Window Scenes for Children Through the Year You may be also be interested IRMGARD KUTSCH MICHAELA KRONSHAGE AND BRIGITTE WALDEN AND SYLVIA SCHWARTZ in these books on p.40: Fun nature activities to help children Make beautiful seasonal window scenes • Painting and Drawing in for a home or school with the patterns engage with the seasons, such as Waldorf Schools building bird boxes, sprouting seeds, and templates in this book. planting a garden and making dyes. colour illus. | 60pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 • Learning to See the World colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 through Drawing • Painting with Children Summer Nature Activities Weaving with Children for Children UTE FISCHER IRMGARD KUTSCH Step-by-step illustrated instructions for AND BRIGITTE WALDEN weaving a wonderful variety of objects. Includes growing fresh herbs, caring colour illus. | 104pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 for butterflies, activities based around water, fire, earth and air, and working with grain and making bread. colour illus. | 80pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 36 06/04/2018 09:58:33 HANDWORK

Arts and Crafts in Waldorf Creative Pathways: Learning about the World through Schools: An Integrated Approach Activities That Strengthen Modeling: Sculptural Ideas for MICHAEL MARTIN (ED) The Child’s Cognitive Forces School and Home Written by experienced Waldorf craft ELIZABETH AUER ARTHUR AND ELIZABETH AUER teachers, this comprehensive book Shares the benefits to children’s A resource book of practical modelling presents many ideas for craft-based development of integrating arts and projects for parents and teachers to use classes and explores the importance practical handwork into academic with children. of arts and crafts in children’s learning. For classes 1 to 8 (age 6 to 14). 150+ b/w illus. | 226pp | Classes 1–8 | £20.00 development. colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 300+ b/w illus. | 304pp | Classes 1–8 | £20.00 Will-Developed Intelligence: The Read an extract on p.38 Educating the Will Handwork and Practical Arts MICHAEL HOWARD Curriculum in Waldorf Schools Explores the nature of the ‘will’ in DAVID MITCHELL AND Bare Hand Knitting children, and offers practical exercises PATRICIA LIVINGSTON ALESHANEE AIKIN based on sculpture to help develop the Explores the craft curriculum for will in a healthy, positive way. Steiner-Waldorf schools, considering An inspiring book of hand knitting 43 b/w illus. | 124pp | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 techniques and projects. the benefits of particular activities for children’s cognition and developing will. 185pp | 530 b/w illus. | Classes 1–8 | £25.00 Easy Wood Carving for Children: colour illus. | 210pp | Classes 1-12 | £20.00 Fun Whittling Projects for Woodworking with Children Basic Sculptural Modeling: Adventurous Kids ANETTE GRUNDITZ AND ULF ERIXON Developing the Will by Working FRANK EGHOLM with Pure Forms in the First Thirty fun, child-friendly woodworking Wood carving is the perfect outdoor projects for all levels of experience. Three Grades hobby for adventurous children. Teach colour illus. | 80pp | Classes 1-8 | £9.99 HELLA LOEWE them how to make toys, games and A detailed look at modelling in the even jewellery with more than fifty fun Steiner-Waldorf curriculum, and how it whittling and wood carving projects, can be used in a class with social and each fully-illlustrated with easy-to- behavioural challenges. follow instructions. 45 b/w photos | 114pp | Classes 1–3 | £14.99 colour illus. | 128pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 Read an extract on p.32

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 37 06/04/2018 09:58:36 Discovering the joy of pottery

In this extract from Arts and Crafts in Waldorf Schools, Gerd von Steitencron explores how teachers can approach this ancient discipline with their classes.

ow can we make the ancient baked, hard as stones and completely Our pupils are waking up to their potter’s joy of life and changed in colour to be built into a environment. Their experience of our creativity come alive for wall using mortar. In Class 4 they will times shows an attitude toward life Class 9 pupils? have done some modelling in clay, heavily influenced by the material HClearly, the pupils must first acquire perhaps having formed simple rounded surfeit of our western-oriented, post- a certain dexterity through practice and angular geometric shapes, perhaps industrial society. We have lost much before they can give free rein to their even having done some simple pottery, of our respect for articles of daily use imagination and their desire to be e.g. a dish. In connection with the ‘Man as well as for the natural environment. creative. They are rank beginners; thus and Animal’ lesson animal figures were Running water now means a tap we should not expect too much from modelled freely, playfully and yet with in our homes; we no longer see its them, nor they from themselves. As a great concentration and seriousness of source. Everything which gathers material, clay will not be unfamiliar to purpose. this living element is also readily at them, of course. Ideally, they will have Now, however, they enter the hand: washbasins, saucepans, teapots, made bricks with their class teacher craft room quite differently. Their cups, jugs and mugs – we hardly ask during Class 3’s building main-lesson. spontaneity and uninhibited, fresh ourselves where all these come from These came back from the kiln fresh- approach to life has been lost. They any more. have become more thoughtful, critical We re-awaken to the original and reserved, some perhaps shy, some context when we arrive at a stream apparently a bit cheeky. What they will after a long walk; the precious liquid now make with the clay can no longer bubbles out of the cool earth as we be merely playful. It must become cup our hands together to catch it and constructive work, craftsmanship, refresh ourselves. Indeed, our cupped artistic activity. Only in this way can hands are an image of the archetype new, increasingly accessible strength underlying every vessel. flowing into their hands be properly It is vital to awaken a new feeling focused and developed. For this reason, in these pupils who have reached an pottery should not be brought as an age when the teacher should no longer independent discipline before Class 9. exercise a natural authority: a feeling

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 38 06/04/2018 09:58:39 that they can accomplish something of the fingers. With a little practice, wall. If the edge becomes too irregular on their own, take their lives into their pots the size and shape of a half- it can be sliced away with a delicate own hands, take on and realise an idea. coconut, but slightly thicker walled, knife or a needle and then thoroughly Perhaps this is especially important in can be modelled in five to ten reworked. It should never appear to our times, for the future can appear to minutes without anything being have been cut off but rather form young people today as a great question scraped or cut away. Working the the culmination above as naturally mark, at least subconsciously. clay any longer makes it dry out as a pendulum which has reached its Listen to an old, experienced potter through the heat of the hands, the turning point and begins to swing back describing how to shape a small pinch- top edge cracking; the clay also again. pot by hand: loses its freshness through being over-worked, becoming tired.

Though it all sounds quite simple, patience, calm and composure are vital. These are, of course, qualities which are worth acquiring anyway should we not yet have them; they are helpful throughout our lives. Also necessary, Out of the gesture of however is the ability to concentrate the hands the seed completely on the matter at hand, of form grows painstakingly observing every pressure of the fingers and its effect. While shaping our first piece in this way it’s good to experience the whole process as a unity, accomplishing it from beginning A hollow is pressed into a little to end without interruption. Both the clay ball using the thumb. Then inner and outer curves should be kept the thick walls are raised evenly Join us and the Steiner-Waldorf using a slow spiralling movement; “Though it all sounds education community online! Use the walls grow thinner thereby. #WaldorfEducation #WaldorfInspired to Soon a vessel has come into being. quite simple, patience, share your pottery photos. After a few minutes, a thick- calm and composure walled bowl approximately 8 cm are vital.” @FlorisBooks in diameter has been formed. Now we begin the process again from the taut everywhere, the base remaining * [email protected] middle of the base, this time with somewhat rounded. The interior is as a somewhat closer, flatter grip to important as the exterior; they should smooth the surface. The walls of not be viewed independently of one the lower part of the bowl should another. A synthesis of the polar already have their final thickness. qualities of concavity and convexity To avoid sagging, the bowl should should be sought for. The top edge, now no longer be set down; it should which might undulate a bit, should also be held obliquely in the hollow of the be incorporated; it should clearly and left hand and the walls squeezed up incisively round off one wall’s surface bit by bit with a shaping movement while forming a transition to the other

Written by experienced Waldorf craft teachers, This comprehensive book addresses every Arts and Crafts in Waldorf Schools is an aspect of arts and crafts, including woodwork, invaluable tool and resource for Middle and metalwork, pottery and much more. It also Upper School (Classes 5 to 13). analyses the role of arts and crafts in the student’s self-discovery and creative development. Paperback | 304pp | £20.00

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 39 06/04/2018 09:59:49 LOWER SCHOOL: CREATIVE ARTS (continued)

PAINTING & DRAWING MUSIC

Learning To See the World Through At Home In Harmony: Bringing Recorder Ensemble: First Collection Drawing: Practical Advice for the Families and Communities Together for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass Classroom: Grades One Through in Song STEVE BERNSTEIN Eight MEG CHITTENDEN A rich and varied collection of 15 four- ELIZABETH AUER A unique book which provides the tools part recorder pieces for schools, graded A guide and resource book for Steiner- for families to learn to sing together in by difficulty. Waldorf class teachers who need extra harmony. Includes audio CD. 32pp | Classes 5–8 | £9.99 support and encouragement with drawing. colour illus. | 120pp | Classes 1–8 | £22.50 colour illus. | 132pp | Classes 1–8 | £20.00 A Waldorf Song Book BRIEN MASTERS (ED) Over 100 songs for use in schools, Painting and Drawing in Waldorf Music from Around the World for Three-Part Recorder Ensembles arranged by age and time of year. Schools: Classes 1 to 8 incl. music | 176pp | Spiral | Classes 3–8 | £14.99 MICHAEL PRESTON THOMAS WILDGRUBER A joyful collection of folk music from A comprehensive teachers’ manual which different cultural backgrounds, scored for provides a complete artistic curriculum school records from Class 5 (age 11) and suitable for Steiner-Waldorf Classes 1 to up. Includes audio CD. 8 (age 6 to 14). b/w illus, music | 128pp | Spiral | Classes 5+ | £25.00 colour illus. | 384pp | Classes 1–8 | £20.00

Painting at School: A Handbook Music Through the Grades in the for Elementary and Secondary Light of the Developing Child Education in Waldorf Schools DIANE INGRAHAM BARNES (ED) DICK BRUIN AND ATTIE LICHTHART A resource book for music for Steiner- A complete overview of watercolour Waldorf teachers, for Classes 1 to 8, with painting in the Waldorf curriculum. over 200 songs. Includes three audio CDs colour illus. | 216pp | Classes 1–12 | £25.00 to assist teachers who don’t read music. 192pp | Spiral | Classes 1–8 | £30.00 Painting With Children: Colour and Child Development BRUNHILD MÜLLER Ideas for encouraging a child’s self- expression through watercolour painting. A practical guide based on Goethe’s colour theory. colour illus. | 48pp | Classes 1–8 | £7.99

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 40 06/04/2018 09:59:53 DRAMA & MOVEMENT

Clothing the Play: The Art and Five Plays for Waldorf Festivals Three Plays for Small Classes: Craft of Stage Design RICHARD MOORE Robin Hood; The Philosopher’s ROSWITHA SPENCE A collection of seasonal plays for Steiner- Stone; The Silver Shoes A comprehensive resource for teachers Waldorf Lower School classes. VIVIAN JONES SCHMIDT and others covering all aspects of stage 56pp | Pamphlet | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 Three plays designed for small classes in and costume design for putting on a Steiner Waldorf schools. play. An Illustrated Guide to Everyday 80pp | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 220 colour illus. | 112pp | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 Eurythmy: Discover Balance and Self-Healing through Movement Early Years educators may Drama at the Heart: Teaching BARBARA TAPFER be also be interested in these Drama in Steiner-Waldorf Schools AND ANNETTE WEISSKIRCHER books on p.18: NELL SMYTH Describes and illustrates through This book will help teachers to work photographs the core speech-sound • A Day Full of Song successfully with drama in their exercises of eurythmy, to help people • Merrily We Sing classroom in a rewarding, holistic way. practise eurythmy therapy at home. • Singing and Speaking the b/w illus. | 240pp | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 180 colour illus. | 168pp | £14.99 Child into Life • Gesture Games for Eureka! The Life and Times of Pedagogical Theater: Dramaturgy Spring and Summer Archimedes: A Musical Play and Performance Practice for the Lower, Middle and High School • Gesture Games for in One Act Autumn and Winter JOHN TREVILLION ARTHUR M. PITTIS An ingenious play which presents A comprehensive overview of the history highlights of the life and death of this of theatre in teaching, and how drama can master of maths and science. help children learn more deeply. 128pp | Classes 5–12 | £14.99 288pp | Classes 1–12 | £18.99 Eurythmy: A Short Introduction The Rainbow Puppet Theater Book: to the Art of Movement Fourteen Classic Puppet Plays THOMAS POPLAWSKI ESTELLE BRYER A concise but informative guide to Fourteen plays for puppets, especially the three main strands of eurythmy: adapted by master puppeteer Estelle Bryer. performance, education and therapy. A wonderful resource book for Steiner- colour illus. | 128pp | Classes 1–12 | £7.99 Waldorf teachers. 166pp | Classes 1–8 | £18.99

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 41 06/04/2018 09:59:56 The Legend of Parzival Parzival’s quest for the Grail can be seen as a metaphor for the difficult journey through life, which speaks strongly to adolescents. Enter the extraordinary world of Arthurian legend in this extract from a new prose retelling of the story by experienced Waldorf teacher Robin Cook.

ittle did Parzival realise that he He was correct, for Destiny decreed lands he had conquered. To name a few, was approaching the ultimate he was about to encounter that which there were Moors, Saracens, Scythians, test of all his years of hardship would determine the success or failure Turks, Arabs and Mongolians. All and endurance. Ever since he of his quest. Unknown to him, deep in spoke different languages and fought Lhad left Arthur’s court, after Cundrie the forest a mighty knight was making in different ways. Some of the armies la Sorciere had shamed him, he had his way towards him: Feirefiz. consisted entirely of skilled horsemen, learnt to accept whatever came to him. others had ranks of archers capable of He had gradually developed calmness “Whatever he had to raining down storms of arrows, and in the face of adversity as he became there were highly trained foot soldiers more and more sure that whatever he undertake, however who fought shield to shield and were had to undertake, however difficult and difficult and demanding never known to break ranks. All these demanding it was, all had its part to it was, all had its part Feirefiz had left at the shore to await play in his search for the Grail. It was in his return. He himself was accoutred this mood of acceptance that he entered to play in his search for with weapons and armour of staggering the forest. the Grail.” richness. His surcoat was of the finest For some time, the way was easy silk, woven with threads of gold, and enough. The sun shone, slanting For many years Feirefiz had devoted his shield was studded with turquoise, through the delicate greens of beech himself and his deeds to love, and to emeralds and rubies. On his helmet and oak, and as he splashed through Queen Secundille. For his queen he was that legendary beast the ecidemon, the shallow streams or skirted the had extended her lands, conquered from whom no poisonous serpent ever deeper depressions, where the land had many knights and kingdoms, and escaped. once collapsed under the workings of accumulated fabulous wealth. Now Thus it was that the two were drawn some underground watercourse, he he was in search of a final adventure, towards each other, and each caught felt a presentiment that something and had set out for the West, bringing sight of the other as they arrived extraordinary was going to happen. with him twenty-five armies from the simultaneously at the opposite ends of a

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 42 06/04/2018 10:00:00 broad clearing in the forest. Both reined give way a little. Sparks flew as they threw it to one side. Feirefiz, showing in their horses, and there was no sound struck each other glancing blows, and his honest intentions, threw his aside as but the stamp of a hoof and a snort both shields were severely battered. well. They both sat down. from Parzival’s charger as it shook its They began to grunt and pant with the “I have never fought such a contest,” head, sensing the battle to come. effort, encouraging themselves with continued Feirefiz, raising his visor as cries of “Tabronit!” from Feirefiz and he spoke. “What is your name? Mine is “Destiny decreed he was “Belrepeire!” from Parzival. Feirefiz the Angevin.” about to encounter that Then Parzival found himself Parzival gazed in wonder at the staggering under a fierce series of mottled black and white skin, realising which would determine blows that brought him to his knees. He who he had been fighting. “The the success or failure of was only just able to recover and then Angevin! I am from Anjou, and those his quest.” it was Feirefiz’s turn to be forced back castles and towns are mine. The only with such a flurry of blows as he had other person with a claim on them is the The two knights circled the clearing, never encountered. At the height of the son of Gahmuret and Queen Belacane.” taking each other in. Parzival recognised exchange, Parzival saw his opportunity They looked at each other intently. all the trappings of a warrior from the and brought his sword down on his “So you are…” began Feirefiz. Eastern lands. Feirefiz immediately took opponent’s helmet with a strength “Parzival. And you are my brother, his opponent to be a Christian knight that would have felled any other Feirefiz.” and was intrigued by his red armour. man. Feirefiz staggered back, his head He had never fought a Christian knight ringing, but the very force of the stroke Discover the epic story of Parzival’s quest before, and he relished the challenge. caused the blade, the one Parzival had for the grail in a brand new retelling by With no word exchanged, only taken from Ither of Gaheviez, to snap. Steiner-Waldorf teacher Robin Cook. the salutation of raised spears, they He leapt back, determined to fight Email us to find out about special prepared to charge. The two horses on, but, to his surprise, his opponent discounts for class sets. thudded across the forest floor and stepped back too. He lowered his sword the two knights came together with a as he did so, and spoke. * [email protected] clap like thunder. A flock of starlings wheeled into the air and fled away. “Parzival brought his Both held their seat and wheeled and sword down on his charged again, with the same result. The third time, both spears were opponent’s helmet with a shattered and flung aside, and they strength that would have set about each other with swords. The felled any other man.” horses began to sweat and quiver with the intensity of their exertion and then “A fine blow! I see you will fight the men dismounted and set about each to the end, but it is no glory to me to other on foot. It was the first time for fight so noble an opponent as yourself both of them that they had encountered when your sword is broken. Come, let such fierce and skilled resistance. As us catch our breath.” they fought it out, gradually they Surprised and wary, but intrigued, found slight weaknesses to exploit, Parzival lowered his shattered sword, and first one and then the other had to and then, with a certain resignation,

The Legend of Parzival is an accessible Robin Cook was a Steiner-Waldorf teacher prose retelling of the medieval German for more than thirty years. Now retired, he epic, bringing the wonderful story of the lectures on the Arthurian legends and the Arthurian knight to life for today’s readers. story of Parzival. An adventure overflowing with knightly chivalry, the dangers of jousting and the Paperback | 256pp | £12.99 warmth of true love.

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 43 06/04/2018 10:00:01 UPPER SCHOOL LITERATURE MATHS SCIENCE

Drawing Geometry: A Primer of Earth Science for Waldorf Schools The Legend of Parzival: The Epic Basic Forms for Artists, Designers HANS-ULRICH SCHMUTZ Story of his Quest for the Grail and Architects A comprehensive curriculum for ROBIN COOK JON ALLEN teaching earth science in Classes 9 to An accessible prose retelling of the Teaches professionals how to draw two- 12. medieval German epic brings the dimensional geometric shapes in simple b/w illus. | 224pp | Classes 9–12 | £16.99 wonderful story of Parzival to life for step-by-step instructions. today’s readers. colour illus. | 88pp | Classes 9–12 | £12.99 Fundamentals for a 256pp | Class 12 | £12.99 Phenomenological Study Read an extract on p.42 Projective Geometry of Chemistry LAWRENCE EDWARDS FRITS H. JULIUS A clear and artistic understanding of the A detailed resource book for Steiner- Life Lessons: Reaching Teenagers qualities of projective geometry. Waldorf teachers of chemistry. Through Literature 200+ diagrams | 352pp | Classes 9–12 | £20.00 312pp | Classes 9–12 | £25.00 DAVID SLOAN Rudolf Steiner and the Atom An examination of literature suitable Topics in Mathematics for the for the different years of a Waldorf Ninth Grade KEITH FRANCIS high school, based on adolescents’ ROBERT NEUMANN Explores the connections between developmental stages. materialist research on the atom and 192pp | Classes 9–12 | £14.99 Includes conic sections, plane figures and Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science. combinatrics. 272pp | Classes 9–12 | £20.00 Parsifal and the Search for the Grail 224pp | Class 9 | £20.00 CHARLES KOVACS Recommended for Steiner-Waldorf Topics in Mathematics for the DRAMA & teachers of Class 11 (age 16-17) as a Tenth Grade: Based on Teaching way of introducing world literature. Practices in Waldorf Schools MOVEMENT 144pp | Class 11 | £12.99 ROBERT NEUMANN (ED) The Three Candles of Little Covers all maths lesson blocks in Class Kinesthetic Learning for Veronica: The Story of a Child’s 10 plus many practical exercises, hints Adolescents: Learning Through Soul in This World and the Other and teaching tips. Movement and Eurythmy 184pp | Class 10 | £20.00 MANFRED KYBER LEONORE RUSSELL ILLUSTRATED BY IRIS GUARDUCCI Topics in Mathematics for the Explores whether eurythmy and movement can be beneficial at High A classic novel from the 1920s which Eleventh Grade: Based on Teaching School level, for Years 9 to 12. tells a remarkable story in the Grail Practices in Waldorf Schools 19 b/w illus. | 146pp | Classes 9-12 | £14.99 tradition. For ages 14 and up. ROBERT NEUMANN (ED) colour illus. | 196pp | Classes 9–12 | £16.99 Includes analytical geometry; projective geometry and sequences and limits. Three Plays for Twelfth Grade: 288pp | Class 11 | £20.00 King Oedipus Had a Daughter; Cassandra; Flor and Blanchefleur ARTS Topics in Mathematics for the MICHAEL HEDLEY BURTON Twelfth Grade: Based on Teaching A collection of three plays for Waldorf Arts and Crafts in Waldorf Practices in Waldorf Schools school Class 12 students (age 17-18). Schools: An Integrated Approach ROBERT NEUMANN (ED) 182pp | Class 12 | £30.00 MICHAEL MARTIN (ED) Includes differential & integral calculus. See p.37 for full details. 192pp | Class 12 | £20.00 300+ b/w illus. | 304pp | Classes 1–8 | £20.00

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 45 06/04/2018 10:02:36 Waldorf 100 CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF WALDORF EDUCATION 1919 2019

50,000+ Steiner-Waldorf pupils worldwide

First Waldorf School founded in Stuttgart, Germany 1100 1700 schools kindergartens

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POSTCARD EXCHANGE BEES AND TREES METAMORPHOSES Connect with Waldorf schools Help put the Steiner-Waldorf Celebrate 100 years of Waldorf around the world! Launched last community at the forefront of a Education with music! Music year, the aim of this project is for global movement to save our bees. schools worldwide have created every school to send a postcard Visit Waldorf100.org for ideas on original compositions designed to every other school across the how to incorporate this project to be performed by Waldorf world. Why not create a giant into lessons for all classes. school choirs and orchestras. world map to display all the You can get involved in either the beautiful postcards you receive? 46 | STEINER-WALDORF EDUCATION 2018 composition or the performance Check out #PostcardProject on side, visit Waldorf100.org for all Instagram for inspiration! the details.

Education Catalogue v1.indd 46 06/04/2018 10:02:53 SCHOOL ORGANISATION & TEACHER DEVELOPMENT

LOWER & EARLY YEARS UPPER SCHOOL Creating a Circle of Collaborative Finding Work-Life Balance: Creating a Home for Body, Soul, Spiritual Leadership Achieving Fulfilment at Every and Spirit: A New Approach to Stage of Life Childcare ROBERTO TROSTLI (ED) A collection of articles which shed light on JOS VAN DER BRUG BERNADETTE RAICHLE this system of school governance. Explains how to improve our work-life A comprehensive guide to running an 164pp | £16.99 balance at every stage of our career. anthroposophical kindergarten. 64pp | £7.99 194pp | £20.00 Developing the Observing Eye: Teacher Observation and Assessment Finding Your Self: Supporting the Mentoring in Waldorf Early in Early Childhood Education Inner Life of the Teacher Childhood Education CYNTHIA MURPHY-LANG TORIN M. FINSER NANCY FOSTER (ED) Guidance and tools to help teachers Helps teachers turn away from external A comprehensive guide to mentoring, develop their observation skills. pressures and cultivate their own resources. a process of mutual learning between 116pp | £9.99 80pp | £12.99 early childhood teachers. 136pp | Spiral bound | £12.99 Engaged Community: Partnerships of Hope: Building Nurturing Children and Families: The Challenge of Self-governance Waldorf School Communities One Model of a Parent/Child in Waldorf Schools CHRISTOPHER SCHAEFER Program in a Waldorf School JON MCALICE A inspiring book of essays addressing the challenges of building community, SARAH BALDWIN Gives teachers the tools to think honestly and ambitiously about school structure. for the good of all in a Waldorf school. A comprehensive guide for anyone 148pp | £14.99 illustrations | 208pp | £11.99 interested in beginning a parent/child program in a Steiner-Waldorf context. A School as a Living Entity b/w photographs | 98pp | £14.99 Entry Points: A Guide to Rudolf Steiner’s Study of Man REA TAYLOR GILL Professional Review and Explains how a school can be a ELAN LEIBNER, BETTY STALEY & dynamic, effective and vibrant entity, Evaluation in Waldorf Early DAVID WEBER (EDS) Childhood Education guided by the people who serve in it. A useful study guide to the lectures Rudolf illustrations | 212pp | £16.99 HOLLY KOTEEN-SOULÉ Steiner gave at the first Waldorf school. Advice for early years centres wishing 156pp | £17.99 to implement or strengthen their Thy Will Be Done: professional evaluation process. The Task of the College of 86pp | Spiral bound | £16.99 Evaluation, Homework and Teacher Teachers in Waldorf Schools Support ROBERTO TROSTLI DAVID MITCHELL (ED) An in-depth description of this unique aspect of Waldorf education. Discusses the meaning and effectiveness of homework and student evaluation. 132pp | £20.00 17 colour illustrations | 136pp | £20.00 Working Together: Mentoring for Eurythmy Teachers LEONORE RUSSELL NEW NEW A concise, practical guide to how schools can best support eurythmy teachers. 44pp | £9.99

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Education Catalogue v1.indd 47 06/04/2018 10:02:55 INDEX BY CLASS

Peter and Anneli’s Journey to the Moon Three Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Stebbing) 24 Class 1 (Bassewitz) 24 Waldorf Song Book, A (Masters) 40 Active Arithmetic! (Anderson) 30 Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book, The (Wyatt) 24 Wise Enchanter, The (Davidow) 24 Adventures of Scoochie Mouse, The Snip Snap Snout! (Pittis) 24 (Roach Melia) 22 Stories of the Saints (Knijpenga) 24 Basic Sculptural Modeling (Loewe) 37 Sun with Loving Light, The (Bloomquist) 26 Class 6 Blue Forest, The (Fischer) 22 Teacher’s Source Book for Mathematics in Classes Alpha Beta Book, The (McCrary) 25 Garden Adventures of Griswald 1 to 5, A (York) 30 Ancient Greece (Kovacs) 26 the Gnome, The (Drescher) 22 Three Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Stebbing) 24 Ancient Rome (Kovacs) 26 Hay for My Ox and Other Stories (Wyatt) 23 Verses and Poems and Stories to Tell (Harrer) 26 At the Hot Gates (Samson) 26 Liputto (Streit) 23 Waldorf Song Book, A (Masters) 40 Beejum Book, The (Howell) 22 Numerica (Kemp) 30 We Will Build a Temple (Streit) 24 Botany (Kovacs) 31 Puck the Gnome (Streit) 24 Wise Enchanter, The (Davidow) 24 Chemistry for Waldorf Middle Schools: Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book, The (Wyatt) 24 Grades Six, Seven and Eight (Sonner) 31 Sun with Loving Light, The (Bloomquist) 26 Christ Legends (Lagerlöf) 22 Teacher’s Source Book for Mathematics Class 4 Christmas Story Book, The (Verschuren) 22 in Classes 1 to 5, A (York) 30 Active Arithmetic! (Anderson) 30 Demon Slayer, The (Mills) 27 Verses and Poems and Stories to Tell Bee Book, The (Streit) 22 Dream Song of Olaf Asteson, The (Jordan) 27 (Harrer) 26 Eight-Year-Old Legend Book, The (Wyatt) 22 Easter Story Book, The (Verschuren) 22 You’re Not The Boss of Me! (Ker) 15 Garden Adventures of Griswald English Manual for the the Gnome, The (Drescher) 22 Elementary School, An (Harrer) 25 Geometry Lessons in the Waldorf School Eureka! The Life and Times of Archimedes Class 2 (Schuberth) 30 (Trevillion) 41 Active Arithmetic! (Anderson) 30 Human Being and the Animal World, The Falconer, The (Sblendorio) 27 Adventures of Scoochie Mouse, The (Kovacs) 31 Fire Bringer, The (Mills) 27 (Roach Melia) 22 Kingdom of Beautiful Colours (Wyatt) 23 Fire the Imagination – Write On! (Winter) 25 Basic Sculptural Modeling (Loewe) 37 Legends of King Arthur (Wyatt) 23 First Steps in Proven Geometry for the Blue Forest, The (Fischer) 22 Legends of the Norse Kings (Wyatt) 27 Upper Elementary Grades (Schuberth) 30 Eight-Year-Old Legend Book, The (Wyatt) 22 Magical Wonder Tales (Wyatt) 23 Geology and Astronomy (Kovacs) 31 Garden Adventures of Griswald Norse Mythology (Kovacs) 27 Geometry and the Imagination the Gnome, The (Drescher) 22 Peter and Anneli’s Journey to the Moon (Renwick Sheen) 30 Hay for My Ox and Other Stories (Wyatt) 23 (Bassewitz) 24 Geron and Virtus (Streit) 23 King of Ireland’s Son, The (Colum) 23 Stories of the Saints (Knijpenga) 24 Green Fingers and Muddy Boots (Santer) 35 Kingdom of Beautiful Colours (Wyatt) 23 Teacher’s Source Book for Mathematics Growing Sustainable Children (Sands) 31 Magical Wonder Tales (Wyatt) 23 in Classes 1 to 5, A (York) 30 Hellas (Veltman) 26 Mary’s Little Donkey (Sehlin) 24 Verses and Poems and Stories to Tell (Harrer) 26 Homer’s Odyssey (Wyatt) 26 Mr Goethe’s Garden (Cohn) 31 Waldorf Song Book, A (Masters) 40 Invisible Boat, The (Müller) 23 Numerica (Kemp) 30 Wise Enchanter, The (Davidow) 24 Invisible Guardians (Streit) 23 Puck the Gnome (Streit) 24 Lara’s First Christmas (Howell) 23 Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book, The (Wyatt) 24 Legends of King Arthur (Wyatt) 23 Stories of the Saints (Knijpenga) 24 Class 5 Legends of the Norse Kings (Wyatt) 27 Teacher’s Source Book for Mathematics Alpha Beta Book, The (McCrary) 25 Little Bee Sunbeam (Streit) 23 in Classes 1 to 5, A (York) 30 Ancient Greece (Kovacs) 26 Living World of the Plants, The (Grohmann) 31 Three Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Stebbing) 24 At the Hot Gates (Samson) 26 Mary’s Little Donkey (Sehlin) 24 Verses and Poems and Stories to Tell (Harrer) 26 Bee Book, The (Streit) 22 Math Lessons for Elementary Grades Waldorf Alphabet Book (Zonneveld) 26 Botany (Kovacs) 31 (Harrer) 30 Word Mastery Primer (Renwick) 26 Chapters from Ancient History (Harrer) 27 Mathematics Lessons for the You’re Not The Boss of Me! (Ker) 15 Geometry Lessons in the Waldorf School Sixth Grade (Schuberth) 30 (Schuberth) 30 Milon and the Lion (Streit) 27 Hellas (Veltman) 26 Music from Around the World for Class 3 Homer’s Odyssey (Wyatt) 26 Three-Part Recorder Ensembles (Preston) 40 Myths of the World (Colum) 27 Active Arithmetic! (Anderson) 30 Human Being and the Animal World, The Physics for Waldorf Middle Schools: Adventures of Scoochie Mouse, The (Kovacs) 31 Grades Six, Seven and Eight (Sonner) 31 (Roach Melia) 22 Invisible Boat, The (Müller) 23 Physics is Fun (Trostli) 31 And There Was Light (Streit) 22 Lara’s First Christmas (Howell) 23 Recorder Ensemble (Bernstein) 40 Basic Sculptural Modeling (Loewe) 37 Legends of King Arthur (Wyatt) 23 Roman Lives (Harrer) 27 Blue Forest, The (Fischer) 22 Legends of the Norse Kings (Wyatt) 27 Sensible Physics Teaching (D’Aleo) 31 Christ Legends (Lagerlöf) 22 Little Bee Sunbeam (Streit) 23 Spirit of the Mountain (Davidow) 24 Eight-Year-Old Legend Book, The (Wyatt) 22 Living World of the Plants, The (Grohmann) 31 Star Rider and Anna McLoon, The (Streit) 24 Garden Adventures of Griswald Mary’s Little Donkey (Sehlin) 24 Stories of the Saints (Knijpenga) 24 the Gnome, The (Drescher) 22 Math Lessons for Elementary Grades (Harrer) 30 String, Straight-edge and Shadow (Diggins) 30 Invisible Boat, The (Müller) 23 Music from Around the World for Student’s Workbook for Mathematics Journey to the Promised Land (Streit) 23 Three-Part Recorder Ensembles (Preston) 40 in Class 6, A (York) 30 Kingdom of Beautiful Colours (Wyatt) 23 Myths of the World (Colum) 27 Teacher’s Source Book for Mathematics Legends of King Arthur (Wyatt) 23 Recorder Ensemble (Bernstein) 40 in Classes 6 to 8, A (York) 30 Legends of the Norse Kings (Wyatt) 27 Stories of the Saints (Knijpenga) 24 Three Knight Tales (Streit) 27 Magical Wonder Tales (Wyatt) 23 String, Straight-edge and Shadow (Diggins) 30 Waldorf Song Book, A (Masters) 40 Mary’s Little Donkey (Sehlin) 24 Teacher’s Source Book for Mathematics Who Is Harry Potter? 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Education Catalogue v1.indd 48 06/04/2018 10:02:56 Growing Sustainable Children (Sands) 31 Star Rider and Anna McLoon, The (Streit) 24 Class 7 Invisible Boat, The (Müller) 23 Three Candles of Little Veronica, The (Kyber) 44 Age of Discovery, The (Kovacs) 26 Invisible Guardians (Streit) 23 Topics in Mathematics for Beejum Book, The (Howell) 22 Lara’s First Christmas (Howell) 23 the Tenth Grade (Neumann) 44 Chemistry for Waldorf Middle Schools: Legends of the Norse Kings (Wyatt) 27 Grades Six, Seven and Eight (Sonner) 31 Little Bee Sunbeam (Streit) 23 Christ Legends (Lagerlöf) 22 Living World of the Plants, The (Grohmann) 31 Class 11 Demon Slayer, The (Mills) 27 Mathematics in Nature, Space and Time Drawing Geometry (Allen) 44 Dream Song of Olaf Asteson, The (Jordan) 27 (Blackwood) 30 Earth Science for Waldorf Schools (Schmutz) 44 English Manual for the Muscles and Bones (Kovacs) 31 Eureka! The Life and Times of Archimedes Elementary School, An (Harrer) 25 Music from Around the World for (Trevillion) 41 Eureka! The Life and Times of Archimedes Three-Part Recorder Ensembles (Preston) 40 Falconer, The (Sblendorio) 27 (Trevillion) 41 Myths of the World (Colum) 27 Fundamentals for a Phenomenological Falconer, The (Sblendorio) 27 Physics for Waldorf Middle Schools: Study of Chemistry (Julius) 44 Fire Bringer, The (Mills) 27 Grades Six, Seven and Eight (Sonner) 31 Geometry and the Imagination Fire the Imagination – Write On! (Winter) 25 Physics is Fun (Trostli) 31 (Renwick Sheen) 44 Geology and Astronomy (Kovacs) 31 Recorder Ensemble (Bernstein) 40 Kinesthetic Learning for Adolescents (Russell) 44 Geometry and the Imagination Sensible Physics Teaching (D’Aleo) 31 Life Lessons (Sloan) 44 (Renwick Sheen) 30 Spirit of the Mountain (Davidow) 24 Parsifal (Kovacs) 44 Geron and Virtus (Streit) 23 Star Rider and Anna McLoon, The (Streit) 24 Projective Geometry (Edwards) 44 Growing Sustainable Children (Sands) 31 String, Straight-edge and Shadow (Diggins) 30 Rudolf Steiner and the Atom (Francis) 44 Invisible Boat, The (Müller) 23 Student’s Workbook for Mathematics Star Rider and Anna McLoon, The (Streit) 24 Invisible Guardians (Streit) 23 in Class 8, A (York) 30 Three Candles of Little Veronica, The (Kyber) 44 Lara’s First Christmas (Howell) 23 Teacher’s Source Book for Mathematics Topics in Mathematics for the Legends of the Norse Kings (Wyatt) 27 in Classes 6 to 8, A (York) 30 Eleventh Grade (Neumann) 44 Little Bee Sunbeam (Streit) 23 Trailing Clouds of Glory (Gerwin) 31 Living World of the Plants, The (Grohmann) 31 Waldorf Song Book, A (Masters) 40 Mathematics in Nature, Space and Time Who Is Harry Potter? (Lutters) 26 (Blackwood) 30 Wonders of Waldorf Chemistry, The (Mitchell) 31 Class 12 Muscles and Bones (Kovacs) 31 Drawing Geometry (Allen) 44 Music from Around the World for Earth Science for Waldorf Schools (Schmutz) 44 Three-Part Recorder Ensembles (Preston) 40 Class 9 Eureka! The Life and Times of Archimedes Myths of the World (Colum) 27 (Trevillion) 41 Drawing Geometry (Allen) 44 Falconer, The (Sblendorio) 27 Physics for Waldorf Middle Schools: Earth Science for Waldorf Schools (Schmutz) 44 Grades Six, Seven and Eight (Sonner) 31 Fundamentals for a Phenomenological Eureka! The Life and Times of Archimedes Study of Chemistry (Julius) 44 Physics is Fun (Trostli) 31 (Trevillion) 41 Recorder Ensemble (Bernstein) 40 Geometry and the Imagination Falconer, The (Sblendorio) 27 (Renwick Sheen) 44 Sensible Physics Teaching (D’Aleo) 31 Fundamentals for a Phenomenological Spirit of the Mountain (Davidow) 24 Kinesthetic Learning for Adolescents (Russell) 44 Study of Chemistry (Julius) 44 Legend of Parzival, The (Cook) 44 Star Rider and Anna McLoon, The (Streit) 24 Geometry and the Imagination String, Straight-edge and Shadow (Diggins) 30 Life Lessons (Sloan) 44 (Renwick Sheen) 30 Projective Geometry (Edwards) 44 Student’s Workbook for Mathematics Growing Sustainable Children (Sands) 31 in Class 7, A (York) 30 Rudolf Steiner and the Atom (Francis) 44 Kinesthetic Learning for Adolescents (Russell) 44 Star Rider and Anna McLoon, The (Streit) 24 Teacher’s Source Book for Mathematics Life Lessons (Sloan) 44 in Classes 6 to 8, A (York) 30 Three Candles of Little Veronica, The (Kyber) 44 Projective Geometry (Edwards) 44 Three Plays for Twelfth Grade (Burton) 44 Three Knight Tales (Streit) 27 Rudolf Steiner and the Atom (Francis) 44 Trailing Clouds of Glory (Gerwin) 31 Topics in Mathematics for the Twelfth Grade Star Rider and Anna McLoon, The (Streit) 24 (Neumann) 44 Waldorf Song Book, A (Masters) 40 Three Candles of Little Veronica, The (Kyber) 44 Who Is Harry Potter? (Lutters) 26 Topics in Mathematics for the Wonders of Waldorf Chemistry, The (Mitchell) 31 Ninth Grade (Neumann) 44 Wonders of Waldorf Chemistry, The (Mitchell) 31 Class 8 Age of Revolution, The (Kovacs) 26 Class 10 Beejum Book, The (Howell) 22 Chapters from Ancient History (Harrer) 27 Chemistry for Waldorf Middle Schools: Drawing Geometry (Allen) 44 Grades Six, Seven and Eight (Sonner) 31 Earth Science for Waldorf Schools (Schmutz) 44 Christ Legends (Lagerlöf) 22 Eureka! The Life and Times of Archimedes Demon Slayer, The (Mills) 27 (Trevillion) 41 Dream Song of Olaf Asteson, The (Jordan) 27 Falconer, The (Sblendorio) 27 English Manual for the Fundamentals for a Phenomenological Elementary School, An (Harrer) 25 Study of Chemistry (Julius) 44 Eureka! The Life and Times of Archimedes Geometry and the Imagination (Trevillion) 41 (Renwick Sheen) 30 Falconer, The (Sblendorio) 27 Growing Sustainable Children (Sands) 31 Fire Bringer, The (Mills) 27 Kinesthetic Learning for Adolescents (Russell) 44 Fire the Imagination – Write On! (Winter) 25 Life Lessons (Sloan) 44 Geometry and the Imagination Projective Geometry (Edwards) 44 (Renwick Sheen) 30 Rudolf Steiner and the Atom (Francis) 44

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