Aaron's Update -- Slappy Hooper wins 2024 Aesop Prize

[Aaron Shepard]

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Note: This is the subscription bulletin for children's author Aaron Shepard's home page, featuring folktales, reader's theater, and storytelling at

http://www.aaronshep.com

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Dear friends,

I'm pleased to announce that my picture book "The Legend of Slappy Hooper" has been awarded the 2024 Aesop Prize from the Children's Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society. Though I've been awarded the runner-up position several times, this is my first time for the top award!

The book is a reprint by my own Skyhook Press of my third-ever picture book, illustrated by Toni Goffe and published by Scribners in 1993. It retells an authentic American tall tale from Depression-era Chicago, collected by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, about a sign painter whose signs are TOO good -- they keep coming to life!

Here are links to info and resources for the book.

Basic info and reviews
http://www.aaronshep.com/books/Slappy.html

Advance reading copy
http://www.shepardpub.com/ARC/SlappyHooper.pdf

Story only
http://www.aaronshep.com/stories/009.html

Reader's Theater Edition #2
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE02.html
(Also available in my book "Folktales on Stage")

Reader's Theater Editon #2, Team version (4 readers)
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE02_Team.html

Gift of Story #2 (for storytellers)
http://www.aaronshep.com/storytelling/GOS02.html

Fun With Writing
http://www.aaronshep.com/extras/Slappy_exercise.html

Slappy on Edelweiss
https://www.edelweiss.plus/#sku=1620356244

If you're not already familiar with Slappy, I hope you enjoy him!

Aaron