The White Horse Talisman

The White Horse Talisman
Author: Andrea Spalding
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2002-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1554695597

Chantel, Adam, Holly and Owen must help Equus, the great white horse, find his mate and foal and regain his magical talisman. But as the horse rises, so does the dragon. The age-old battle between good and evil threatens the bond between Chantel and Adam and endangers the quest. This is fantasy as its best, a story that raises hairs on the back of the neck and sends satisfying chills up and down the spine, a story that, while clearly drawn from the rich world of make believe, feels truer than true.

White Horse Talisman

White Horse Talisman
Author: Andrea Spalding
Publisher: Turtleback
Total Pages:
Release: 2003-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780613709422

In this first volume in the Summer of Magic Quartet, Chantel, Adam, Holly, and Owen set out to help the Great White Horse Equus find his mate and regain his magic talisman.

Finder

Finder
Author: Carla Speed McNeil
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2012
Genre: Books
ISBN: 1616550279

"Talisman is a book about a book: It's the book that's never there when you wake up, no matter how hard you try to take it with you. The book you steal when you're too young to understand it's not the only copy in the world. Talisman is about hunger and magic, and the power of stories made solid."--Back cover.

Behind the Sorcerer's Cloak

Behind the Sorcerer's Cloak
Author: Andrea Spalding
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2006-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1554694426

The four volumes of Andrea Spalding's The Summer of Magic Quartet are among her most exciting work. The White Horse Talisman was nominated for the Silver Birch, Hackmatack and Manitoba Readers' Choice Awards. Dance of the Stones was also a Silver Birch nominee. Heart of the Hill left one of her four characters in grave danger. In this book, the fourth and final volume of The Summer of Magic Quartet, the Dark Being is poised to conquer Earth and after that, the Universe. She takes one of the four Magic Children hostage. The others must restore the balance between Light and Dark, but at what cost?

Heart of the Hill

Heart of the Hill
Author: Andrea Spalding
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2005-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1554694779

In Volume Three of The Summer of Magic Quartet, Adam's turn to lead the adventure has arrived. The Wise One, Myrddin, needs Adam to retrieve his staff from the Crystal Cave deep inside Glastonbury Tor. The quest grows more dangerous, however, and fear rises. Equus and Ava are far away, the Lady will not wake, and Myrddin is in human guise, unable to use magic without alerting the Dark Being. The four children are on their own. And as the Dark Being approaches, the children discover that danger can find them even in their dreams.

How to Turn Poems, Lyrics, & Folklore into Salable Children's Books

How to Turn Poems, Lyrics, & Folklore into Salable Children's Books
Author: Anne Hart
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005-08-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 146206518X

Do you want to adapt your poem to a storybook that tells a story in words, and pictures-or only amplify the images that you create with words? Would you rather turn your poem into a picture book that tells a story with pictures? Will words take second place to illustrations? Decide first whether you will write a story book or a picture book. Then use the images in your poem to clarify your writing. You won't be able to read a picture book into a tape recorder or turn it into an audio book or radio play. You will be able to narrate a word book for audio playing. Start with an inspirational poem, proverb, or song lyrics. Ask children what makes them laugh. You can make something out of nothing. You can make a story out of anything intangible, such as an idea with a plan still in your mind. Capture your children's dreams, proverbs, song lyrics, and the surprise elements that make them laugh. Record imagination, "what-if" talk, and personal history. A folktale or story is something that could come from any place in the past, from science, or from nothing that you can put your hands on. What children want in a book, poem, or folklore is a cave where they can go to be themselves. When suspending belief, children still want to be themselves as they navigate fantasy. The story book becomes a den or tree house where children can go inside, shut the door, and play. Introduce children to poetry by showing how you transform your poem into a children's book by expanding and emphasizing significant events in the life story of one child. Poems, memorable experiences, significant life events or turning points are all ways to make something out of nothing tangible. You begin re-working a concept, framework, or vision. Here's how to write, publish, and promote salable material from concept to framework to poem to children's book-step-by-step.