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The Phantom of the Opera: Hardcover
The long-ago mysteries of the great opera house in Paris have never been explained. Why did so many terrible tragedies happen there? Why did everyone flee from it in fear? This gripping story about the “opera ghost” (read more)
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A Drawing Lesson with Rudolf Steiner: The Geometry of Shadow Movements
Part of the first Waldorf Teacher Training. When a child draws an object of nature, a tree, or a rock, for example, he is experiencing nature itself. If he uses solid, unbroken lines to represent the object, he is (read more)
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Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln: Hardcover
In soaring words and stunning illustrations, Margarita Engle and Rafael López tell the story of Teresa Carreño, a child prodigy who played piano for Abraham Lincoln. As a little girl, Teresa Carreño loved to let (read more)
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A Reverence for Wood
If you want to infuse your student with an understanding of why natural materials are so special, just be sure there's a copy of this book available for browsing in your classroom or home. This refreshing, delightfully written, and magnificently (read more)
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Basic Sculptural Modeling
Hella Loewe has developed an approach to modeling that could be called "form drawing in three dimensions" - and, we think it is just exactly what our modern children need. It is also, from our own research and from hers, (read more)
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Birth of Venus: Steiner High School Visual Arts — COMING SOON
Birth of Venus: Steiner High School Visual Arts PAINTING: *Poster *Landscape *Watercolour *Oils *Abstract. SCULPTURE: *Relief *Wood *Portrait *Stone *Major Work. DRAWING: *Black & White *Brush & Ink *Commercial *Portrait *Life Drawing. *Art History, Class 8 to 12.
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3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III
Comedy, tragedy, and history — this anthology presents a trio of Shakespeare's most frequently studied and performed works. Each represents one of the playwright's primary genres, and together they run the gamut of the Elizabethan theater experience, from lighthearted romance to (read more)
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Native American Songs and Poems: An Anthology
In this carefully chosen collection, encompassing traditional songs and contemporary Native American poetry, readers will find a treasury of lyrics verse composed by Seminole, Hopi, Navajo, Pima, Havasupai, Arapaho, Paiute, Nootka, and other Indian writers and poets.
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Choirs of Colours
The Golden Beetle Books are currently only sold by us here at www.WaldorfBooks.com (now located at The Bearth Institute). You will not find these books carried by any other distributor, on Amazon, or any other channel. Choirs of (read more)
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Clothing the Play
Roswitha Spence has for years produced plays, their stages and costumes at Emerson College in England. Clearly, she is a master at taking simple materials and transforming them easily into everything needed to powerfully, gracefully and beautifully present a (read more)
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Color — Its Relationship to Soul and Spirit
Lois Schroff's Color - Its Relationship to Soul and Spirit highlights the amazing depth of knowing that lies behind the beautiful paintings of watercolorist Liane Collot d'Herbois, whose application of the color theories of Rudolf Steiner and of (read more)
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Creative Felt
People have been making felt for thousands of years and Angelika Wolk-Gerche invites you to discover its fun and practicality. Within these pages, beautifully illustrated with clear photographs, she shows us one step at a time how to create toys, (read more)
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Dramatis Divine: Drama Teaching in Steiner Education – Class 1 to 12 — COMING SOON
Dramatis Divine: Drama Teaching in Steiner Education - Class 1 to 12 *Verse Plays *Puppet Theatre *Playwriting *Pantomime *History & Geography of Drama *Music Drama *12 Elements of Theatre *Film-making *Dance Drama *Radio Plays *Individual Performance *Dawn to Dusk to Dawn, (read more)
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Drawing with Hand, Head, and Heart
This beautiful book is so packed with the richness of life and a zest for beauty that the fact that it is also the best guide to learning how to draw and teaching children to draw that I've ever seen (read more)
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The Drum: A Folktale from India
In this story from India, a poor boy's dream of having a drum takes him on an unlikely journey of discovery. He meets several people who guide him along the way. In time, he learns to make his own "magic" (read more)
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Education Through Art
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Eureka! The Life and Times of Archimedes: A Play
This ingenious musical brings to life the story of the famous Greek mathematician and philosopher Archimedes. Music and beautiful writing combine to make this a most memorable play for students from the fifth grade through the high school. Including both (read more)
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Feltcraft
This book is so charming and the little people and animals so delightful that we couldn't resist having it as part of our bookshop. We can imagine homes where children and visitors find these little fellows tucked into all sorts (read more)
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Hawthorne Valley Harvest
Hawthorne Valley Harvest is a collection of 23 plays spanning the full elementary school grades and including a Michaelmas Pageant for the entire school. The author offers teachers practical suggestions for preparing a play with children for production.
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I Love to Be Me
Sweet songs for our young children - accompanied by soft and lovely watercolor paintings, just right for our little ones to gaze at.
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Learn-to-Knit Afghan Book
This book caught my eye because I'm someone who doesn't like to waste time or materials on the sort of projects that are often suggested as ways to learn a craft. It also intrigued me because I had concocted (read more)
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Learning about the World through Modeling: Sculptural Ideas for School and Home
What a wonderful book! The author and illustrator have managed to combine a delicious array of modeling projects with a thorough discussion of the cognitive, social and personal benefits of the act of transforming a plastic material into an object (read more)
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Learning to See the World Through Drawing [plus CD]
A clear approach to a drawing in grades one through eight in Waldorf Schools, or in any schools, is long overdue and here at last! Packed with color and black and white drawings, with clear, stepwise ways to build competence (read more)
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Let’s Do a Play (For Grades 1 -5)
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Finger Knitting for Kids: Super Cute & Easy Things to Make
Now kids can create their very own knitted accessories! Finger Knitting for Kids shows young crafters (and their parents) how to make cute and easy knitted pieces using only their fingers and a bit of yarn. Clear and (read more)
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Kids Knitting: Projects For Kids Of All Ages
In fifteen easy projects, from bouncy bean bags to a rolled-edge sweater, author and knitting expert Melanie Falick teaches kids of all ages how to knit. Through step-by-step instructions and candy-colored illustrations, beginners learn the fundamentals: knitting tools, finger-knitting, and (read more)
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Socks from the Toe Up: Essential Techniques and Patterns from Wendy Knits
Discover a new approach to sock knitting with Wendy D. Johnson and Socks from the Toe Up. This approach, made famous by her popular blog WendyKnits.net, will turn even the (read more)
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Making More Flower Children
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Many Mansions: The Spirit in Architecture — COMING SOON
Many Mansions: The Spirit in Architecture *Domestic & School Building *Geography in Architecture *The Spirit in Structure *Architect as Creative Artist *Architectural Acoustics *Feng Shui *Low-cost Building & Landscaping *Area, Site & Materials *Architectural Anatomy *Australian Architecture *Humour (read more)
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Music of the Spheres
This musical for middle school students is a delightful adaptation of a scene from the life of Johannes Kepler. It is valuable for all teachers preparing the biographies of Kepler and Tycho de Brahe - and a really delightful musical (read more)
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Painting at School
This book is in FULL COLOR! So helpful and so many examples! Children need color as much as they need music in their lives — authentic, vibrant color. "Painting at School" illustrates in full color how to introduce and sustain regular (read more)
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Painting in Waldorf Education [plus CD]
Painting in Waldorf Education is an exciting and much-longed-for resource for teachers and parents. This extraordinary book was written by two experienced Waldorf teachers from Holland who present the rationale as well as detailed practical exercises for teaching (read more)
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Painting with Children, Fourth Edition
This wonderful book is once again available to parents and teachers wanting to explore with children the world of liquid color. And, it is still the best guide ever for those new to wet-on-wet painting and to painting with young (read more)
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Papercraft
Paper is a remarkably versatile, easy-to-use, and easy-to-find material for use in arts and crafts. In this book, Angelika Wolk-Gerche presents detailed instructions for making hundreds of things out of paper. Papercraft includes easy-to-follow instructions for cutting out (read more)
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Parzival: The Quest for the Holy Grail: Illustrated by David Newbatt: Hardcover
This is an absolutely gorgeous and solid book! Stunning! Like a coffee table book but packed with so much beauty and information. Parzival is one of the great classic stories of the last millennium, a colourful tale from the time (read more)
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Pedagogical Theater
Drama provides a powerful teaching tool for children to internalise and comprehend deeply what they learn more broadly at school. In Waldorf schools, lesson-informed drama makes up an integral part of the curriculum. This book provides a comprehensive overview of (read more)
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Perspective Drawing — OUT OF PRINT
This book is out of print. We highly recommend this substitute book which is very similar:
Shadow Drawing and Shadow Projection
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Rose Windows and How to Make Them
Remember the paper snowflakes we used to make? The ones where you fold the paper and cut delicate, interesting shapes out of the resulting triangle? And then, you unfold them as though you were opening a mysterious package, never quite (read more)
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Snowflakes in Photographs
For portrait after portrait of the wonder of nature, of metamorphosis of form, and just sheer beauty, this 1931 collection of photographs of snowflakes just can't be beat. Bentley's genius was not just that he found a method to photograph (read more)
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Spring – Nature Activities for Children
It is thrilling to see the second of this vibrant 4-book series in print in English. It is every bit as beautiful and as inspiring as it's companion volume, Autumn, and I expect it will do a great deal to (read more)
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