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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1996
  • Latest Book:
    December 2008
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Book List in Order: 12 titles





  • Did you ever look carefully at a spider's web? If their purpose is strictly to catch flies, why do spiders weave such beautiful, intricate webs? Did you ever wonder what causes thunder? Why is the sea salty? How did tigers get their stripes? In this ...



  • As recently as 100 years ago, the great majority of people living on this earth were learning things the old-fashioned way by word of mouth. In the last twenty-five years, the spoken grapevine has come back into its own because of the storytelling re...



  • Call it what you will nincompoop, knucklehead, ninnyhammer, numskull, noodlehead stories of the fool have been around as long as people have been telling stories. Everyone has had a noodlehead day, a day when the brain takes a leave of absence and no...



  • Barnyard animals learn a lesson about manners and passing judgments in this moral tale drawn from Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus stories. -Booklist Review

    When the bar...



  • Stories are powerful. If a story is well told, listeners feel as if they are in a bit of a trance. Storytellers have always loved to tell stories around a campfire. It's the perfect setting to tell a jump story where the whole point is to startle the...



  • This classic fable from Russia tells the story of two frog sisters with completely different personalities.



  • Storytellers Hamilton and Weiss invoke the exotic days of the spice trade in their retelling of a traditional Italian folktale. -Kirkus Review

    There is an old saying that...



  • Rooster''s Night Out is a humorous chain story from Cuba that is retold by the award-winning creative team of Mitch Weiss and Martha Hamilton. It is a story about a vain rooster who sets out for a party after carefully grooming his feathers. On the w...






  • Meet a baker who is so stingy that he wants to charge people just for smelling his baked goods. ...



  • Bank Street Best Children''s Books of the YearA barber in Bengal is so generous to others that sometimes he has nothing left for his own family. When he comes home empty-handed once again, his wife, tired of going hungry, sends him packing until he f...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Martha Hamilton; Mitch Weiss has published 12 books.

Martha Hamilton; Mitch Weiss does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Well of Truth, was published in December 2008.

The first book by Martha Hamilton; Mitch Weiss, Stories in My Pocket, was published in June 1996.

No. Martha Hamilton; Mitch Weiss does not write books in series.