August House is pleased to announce that Teaching with Story: Classroom Connections to Storytelling will receive a 2015 Anne Izard Storytellers’ Award from the Westchester Library Association. This prestigious award recognizes distinguished books that promote greater awareness of storytelling with resources and rich source material.

On Friday, October 2nd, thousands of people who share a love of stories will gather at historic Jonesboro, Tennessee to attend the 43rd Annual National Storytelling Festival. Jonesboro has become the informal epicenter for storytellers to meet, reconnect, and share their craft with fans and colleagues alike. 

August House is pleased to announce that The Little Moose Who Couldn’t Go to Sleep has received the prestigious 2015 Storytelling World Resource Award in the “Stories for Young Listeners” category. This announcement marks the tenth award that the creative team of Willy Claflin and illustrator James Stimson have received for their collaboration on Maynard Moose picture books.

Steve Sanfield, an award winning author, poet, folklorist and professional storyteller, as well as a long time resident of San Juan Ridge in Northern California, died at home on Wednesday, January 28 at the age of 77. 

As a kickoff for Black History Month, August House features A Natural Man: The True Story of John Henry, written by Steve Sanfield and illustrated by Peter J. Thornton.

This winter, August House will celebrate Multicultural Children’s Book Day (January 27th, 2015) with a two-week long video and audio contest, “You Have Diverse Stories,” to highlight the need for more diverse stories for children. 

Story Cove LLC is pleased to announce that the popular African folktale Anansi and Turtle Go to Dinner (August House Inc), as told by Bobby and Sherry Norfolk, is now available on the Story Cove Website. Story Cove continues to expand the availability of supplemental reading tools aligned with the Common Core Standards.

August House Inc. is pleased to announce that The Little Moose Who Couldn’t Go to Sleep, by Willy Claflin, has been named to the 2014 Kansas State Reading Circle. This month, The Little Moose Who Couldn’t Go to Sleep will be included in the Reading Circle’s 2014 list of best reading material for students at an intermediate reading level. 

Story Cove LLC is pleased to announce a new addition to its award winning online library of 22 interactive stories from the world’s great oral traditions: Anansi and the Tug o’ War, as told by Bobby and Sherry Norfolk. Teachers and librarians can now use Story Cove’s lesson plans, correlated to the Common Core Standards for Reading.

This October, Singapore’s Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, read Go to Sleep Gecko, a Balinese folktale written by Dr. Margaret Read MacDonald and published by August House, to over 200 guests and children to commemorate kidsREAD’s 10th anniversary.

This fall Story Cove is pleased to announce a new subscription service for schools with online access to an award winning collection of 22 highly engaging stories from the world’s great oral traditions. Each whimsical folktale features Animation, Read-Along and Read-toMe versions of the story, along with differentiated lesson plans correlated to the Common Core Standards for Reading.