Folktales on Stage is a collection of reader's theater scripts for young readers, adapted by award-winning children's author Aaron Shepard from his own folktale retellings. A wide variety of countries and cultures is represented, including Native America, Africa, the Middle East, Russia, Southeast Asia, and China. The scripts may be freely copied, shared, and performed for educational, noncommercial purposes. While aiming mostly at ages 8 to 15, the collection features a full range of reading levels. Aaron Shepard is the author of numerous picture books as well as dozens of stories in Cricket and Australia's School Magazine. He is also the author of Stories on Stage (H. W. Wilson), long considered by many the premier collection of reader's theater scripts. Aaron spent five years as a professional actor in reader's theater, performing in schools and conducting workshops for teachers and students. He now hosts Aaron Shepard's RT Page, the Web's most popular reader's theater destination, with visits by thousands of teachers and librarians each week. The scripts in this collection are: The Adventures of Mouse Deer (Indonesia) The Calabash Kids (Tanzania) The Hidden One (Native America) The Boy Who Wanted the Willies (Europe) The Princess Mouse (Finland) The Legend of Slappy Hooper (U.S.) The Gifts of Wali Dad (India, Pakistan) The Baker's Dozen (U.S.) Master Maid (Norway) The Magic Brocade (China) Forty Fortunes (Iran) Master Man (Nigeria) Savitri (India) The Enchanted Storks (Iraq) The Crystal Heart (Vietnam) The Sea King's Daughter (Russia)