New Arrivals

Understanding Your Biography

George and Gisela O'Neil, Florin Lowndes

This classic handbook explores an anthroposophical approach to personal biography that can be both revealing and inspiring.  It has been long out of print and we are delighted to again be able to share it with what has become a much wider and receptive public. Usi... read more

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Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer

Weeds and What They Tell Us is one of the most useful books for gardeners, and one that has taught me again and again not only what my garden needs, but also how very wise nature herself is. Pfeiffer's approach begins with the premise that nature really do... read more

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Introductory Price $12.55

30 Nature Fables in Rhyme

Jakob Streit

These story rhymes are a joy!  Jakob Streit has managed to capture so much that is essential about different animals and insects, and to do so in such a way as to charm child and adult alike.  We get to listen in as Butterfly talks to Cricket, or Squirrel and Cat convers... read more

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The Life of Francis of Assisi

Jakob Streit

Beautifully retold, beautifully translated stories from the life of St. Francis of Assisi.    No child can help but love the gentle saint whose life goes so far in showing us the power of kindness and faith.  These vignettes are perfect for the Waldorf grade 3 curricul... read more

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Fourteen Classic Puppet Plays

Estelle Bryer

At the Rainbow Puppet Theatre of the Constantia Waldorf School in Cape Town, South Africa, children enter a magical world of beauty, wonder, and transformation.  Through the puppeteer's art, stories old and new carry eternal truths in a away that brings life and healing t... read more

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This issue contains reports on lectures and workshops from the first International Extra Lesson Seminar in Chestnut Ridge, New York.  In particular, Joep Eikenboom was the keynote speaker, with Ingun Schneider offering a review of the Extra Lesson exercies.  Five lecture... read more

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Eugene W. Field

Wynken, Blynken and Nod one nightSailed off in a wooden shoe --Sailed on a river of crystal light,Into a sea of dew. So begins this beloved lullaby poem, so beautiful and so certain to sooth children (and their... read more

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Richard Moore

Richard Moore's collection of seasonal plays are suitable for classes 1 to 5 and feature original songs. They include two Christmas plays, an Easter play, a St John's festival play, and a Michaelmas play, as well as "Gilly of the Goatskin and the Churl of the Townland ... read more

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Rudolf Steiner on self-management, experiential study and self-education in the life of a college of teachers

Francis Gladstone

Republican Academies is a collection of Rudolf Steiner's insights for Waldorf schools on self-management, experiential study, self-education, and cooperative working. The book includes extensive excerpts from Steiner's speeches and writings and explores his vie... read more

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Rudolf Steiner on Religious Teaching and the School Services

Rudolf Steiner

This book is a comprehensive collection of Rudolf Steiner's thoughts and ideas on teaching religion in Waldorf schools. The carefully compiled collection documents the beginning and development of "Free Christian Religion Lessons" and "Services" as they were originally... read more

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Waldorf Research Books No. 1

This popular book is a useful and practical resource for Waldorf school teachers and offers a great deal to homeschoolers as well. It provides detailed suggestions and checklists for teaching all lessons for classes 1 through 8. Especially useful are Avison's Readiness ... read more

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What parents can do with and for their children from birth to age six

Rahima Baldwin

This book beautifully covers just about everything I remember experiencing as the mother of three young children. Unfortunately for me, I didn't have this book to help balance my perspective and offer one creative suggestion after another. If you feel somewhat alone and ma... read more

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Introductory Price $16.15

Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture

György Doczi

One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature - the designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings.  These images are awesome not just for their beauty, b... read more

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*Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine

John Jeavons

John's methods are nothing short of miraculous.- Alice Waters (from the Foreword) Decades before the terms "eco-friendly" and "sustainable growing" entered the vernacular, How to Grow More Vegetables demonstrated that smal... read more

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A How-To of Coloring Techniques for Teaching to Children

Sieglinde de Francesca

At last, you can now learn all about coloring with block crayons, as well as how to teach these skills to children - right in the comfort of your own home. These self-paced lessons cover everything:  the materials you will need, basic drawing techniques, how to dr... read more

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Norton Juster

I read [The Phantom Tollbooth] first when I was 10.  I still have the book report I wrote, which began, 'This is the best book ever. - Anna Quindlen, The Ne... read more

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short stories and poems for children

Reg Down

From one of our favorite children's authors comes another collection sure to delight.  A Tangle of Tales is packed cover to cover with 42 stories for children.  Inside you'll find nature tales, riddle tales, fables, fairy tales, poems, and creation myths both se... read more

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Sourcebook for inspired storytelling

Ashley Ramsden and Sue Hollingsworth

What I find very special about this guidebook is that it reads as a great story in itself.  The telling of this path reads like a fascinating page-turner, the authors exploring an adventure-filled wilderness of human life and the ways that 'story' becomes a sustaining ... read more

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Para el jardín de infancia y la primera edad escolar

Wilma Ellersiek

Este libro ofrece una selección de varios ipos de juegos de gestos de mano: juegos de tacto y de movimiento rítmico, juegos de movimientos del mundo animal y para las estaciones del año, y gestos para acompañar canciones de cuna.  Estos juegos están hechos desde un p... read more

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Stories from the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America

Edited by Louise deForest

The good people at WECAN are very much to be congratulated - they have produced what is, in my opinion, the finest collection of stories for young children ever published in English (maybe in any language, but others will have to judge that).  Tell Me a Story bri... read more

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Singing Movement Games to Play with Children Ages 3-5

Joan Carr Shimer and Valerie Baadh Garrett

A lot has been 'said' about protecting childhood, but this beautifully written and produced book will show you 'how'. The authors have poured a lifetime of what works for young children into these pages for us. ... read more

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Elizabeth L Lombardi

Listen, now, and be quite still. The stars are singing over the hill. One shines for you on this clear night. Open your heart and let in the light. It has been snowing all day, and now it is Christmas Eve. ... read more

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Indications by Rudolf Steiner for Working with Young Children

Selected and edited by Freya Jaffke

This new edition combines two resources that came into being just before and after the international gathering of Waldorf early childhood educators in Dornach, Switzerland in 2005. In On the Play of the Child, Freya Jaffke compiled statements by Rudolf Steiner ... read more

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A Final Destination or a Path Toward Freedom?

Edited by Nancy Blanning

The Journey of the "I" into Life presents us with the notes and transcripts of gleaned from five lectures given in 2012 by medical doctors, early childhood educators and a consulting Waldorf class teacher.  It is a rare combination of crystal clear thought and fa... read more

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Introductory Price $10.80

An Account of the Battle of Thermopylae

Donald Samson

We welcome this outstanding reader for the Waldorf Grade 5 curriculum!  Between the excitement of the story and the resounding history that lies behind it, any student (an their teacher!) will be hungry to get to read more. It’s the year 480 BC and the greatest ... read more

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Edited by Martyn Rawson and Tobias Richter

Based on many years of research and consultation, this presentation of the Steiner Waldorf curriculum provides a modern, compehensive overview of what is taught in Steiner Waldorf Schools and why. Over 50 experienced teachers from several countries have contributed to thi... read more

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Margaret Bloom

Invite yourself and every child you know or teach into a playful world that delights at every turn!  Making Peg Dolls joyously shows how to easily make simple, lovable toys for children that can also be used as table puppets for storytelling.  These little Waldo... read more

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The Book of Northern Myths

Padraic Colum

Meet Thor, Baldur, Freya, Odin and all the higher gods - and Loki too, mischief maker and clever deceiver. Filled with the most extraordinary tales of great depth, imagination and wisdom it is impossible to resist this wonderful book - and Colum's telling is outstanding... read more

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