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Apple for the Teacher: Thirty Songs for Singing While You Work.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Apple for the Teacher: Thirty Songs for Singing While You Work, collected and introduced by Jane Yolen, music arranged by Adam Stemple, art edited by Eileen Michaelis Smiles. Harry Abrams Publishing Co. (115 W. 18th St., New York, NY 10011), 2005. 117 pages. $24.95.
This unique book combines work songs, American folk art and concise social commentary about various occupations, from the teamsters and tarriers of an earlier era to modern-day astronauts and programmers. Jane Yolen is an acclaimed writer of children's books, and in Apple for the Teacher, she, along with Adam Stemple and Eileen Michaelis Smiles, has produced compelling portraits of Americans at work. For example, the familiar song "Erie Canal" gets a fresh arrangement, an accompanying 1832 watercolor, Lockport on the Erie Canal, and a narrative about the "bargees," or boat drivers who sang this song. A picture of a Pennsylvania Dutch table rug and a reflection on the tasks of ...
- Yolen, Jane & Adam Stemple. Troll bridge; a rock 'n' roll fairy tale.(Young...
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Rohrlick, Paula July 1, 2006 700+ words
YOLEN, Jane & Adam Stemple. Troll bridge; a rock 'n' roll fairy tale. Tor, Starscape. 240p. c2006. 0-765-31426-6. $16.95. J * Noted fantasy...
- Can you keep a secret?(The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy Tale Detectives)(The...
- Magazine article from: Teacher Librarian Winslow, Betty April 1, 2006 700+ words
...things are not what they seem. Can she discover what is wrong? Pay the piper: A rock 'n' roll fairy tale. Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple. St. Martin's Press, 2005. $16.95. 0-7653-1158-5. Grades 6-8. While interviewing her favorite rock band...
- Jane Yolen's Mother Goose Songbook.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine Zeiger, Hanna B. March 1, 1993 700+ words
Illustrated by Rosekrans Hoffman. Musical arrangements by Adam Stemple. In an unusually handsome edition, Jane Yolen has gathered many of the best-known and best-loved Mother Goose Songs and has...
- Cozy Bedtime Snuggles Await Readers of Two New Picture Books by Jane Yolen,...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 22, 2007 700+ words
...lives with her family in Hatfield, Massachusetts. Jane Yolen has also created books with her sons, writer and musician Adam Stemple, and photographer Jason Stemple. CONTACT: Raab Associates Inc., +1-914-241-2117, info@raabassociates.com...
- Boiled in Lead's `Songs From the Gypsy' a CD-ROM Album
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered January 29, 1996 700+ words
...from around the world in one piece. Most of the material on the new album, called Songs From the Gypsy, was written by Adam Stemple [sp] and Steven Brust [sp]. [excerpt from `Songs From the Gypsy'] ANNE WILLIAMS: This album takes the listener...
- Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple Serve Up a Feast of Fairy Tales and Recipes.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 8, 2006 700+ words
...lives with her family in Hatfield, Massachusetts. Jane Yolen has also created books with her sons, writer and musician Adam Stemple, and photographer Jason Stemple. CONTACT: Raab Associates Inc., +1-914-241-2117, info@raabassociates.com
- Holiday reading for all ages, kinds
- Newspaper article from: The Journal Record Associated Press November 22, 1996 700+ words
...Mill Press, $17.95 hardcover), by Jane Yolen with illustrations by Nancy Sippel Carpenter and musical arrangements by Adam Stemple, showcases the favorites. Yolen supplies a bit of history for each of the 34 classic carols from Germany, England, Wales...
