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 The Prince of the Pond:
Otherwise Known as De Fawg Pin
by Donna Jo Napoli
This fall, Book-It All Over brings back one of our most popular and beloved touring stories. A new twist on an old tale, The Prince of the Pond: Otherwise Known as De Fawg Pin, is a charming story of a prince in frog’s clothing. The victim of a witch’s curse, De Fawg Pin tries his best to adapt his human sensibilities to an amphibious world, and the outcome is truly hilarious. Receiving the School Library Journal “Science Is Fun” award, this story blends the fantastic and the facetious, the silly and the scientific, to create not only a delightful fairy tale but also an entertaining lesson in pond life.
GRADES: K – 6
TOURS: Sept – Dec
THEMES: Family, community, reproduction, acceptance, tolerance, patience, habitat—rivers, lakes & ponds
Illustration from The Prince of the Pond by Donna Jo Napoli Copyright 1992 by Judith Byron Schachner. Published by Penguin Books USA. All Rights Reserved.
Booking Details:
Each performance runs between 25 and 45 minutes and can be performed in venues as small as a classroom or as large as an auditorium. In conjunction with each performance, Book-It offers workshops for children and young adults to reinforce what they have seen. Students can use voice, body, and imagination to create characters and explore environments, or develop a play in the Book-It Style™ from their own story. These workshops allow young people to make the leap between seeing art and creating it.
Workshop Choices: Themes in Motion (Grades K-2, 45 min) Based on the story presented, the teaching artists use creative dramatics to take the students through different themes. Storytelling Standing Up (Grades 3-12, one hour) 30 students write a seven-sentence story, adapt it into the Book-It Style™, are cast and directed by the teaching artists, then perform their literary creation.
Cost: Touring Story $575, includes performance, book, study guide, and workshop
Additional Workshops: $125 each, additional travel fees apply.
To book The Prince of the Pond for your school or community center call 206.770.0880 or email education@book-it.org. Click for more information about Book-It All Over.
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