Readers Theater Scripts by Aaron Shepard

I made a list of the Readers Theater scripts that Aaron Shepard has so generously placed online, arranged in order by time from short to long. You can find other indexes (genre, title, etc.) at his website: Aaron Shepard: Indexes.

• Help! Hilary! Help!: 3 minutes.
• Which Shoes Do You Choose?: 3 minutes.
• Casey at the Bat: 4 minutes.
• The Monkey King: A Superhero Tale of China: 5 minutes.
• Quackling: A Not-Too-Grimm Fairy Tale: 5 minutes.
• The War Prayer: 5 minutes.
• The Baker’s Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale: 6 minutes.
• The Songs of Power: A Northern Tale of Magic: 6 minutes.
• The Mice Before Christmas: 7 minutes.
• The Millionaire Miser: A Buddhist Fable: 7 minutes.
• The Calabash Kids: A Tale of Tanzania: 8 minutes.
• The Gifts of Friday Eve: A Tale of Iran: 8 minutes.
• The Hidden One: A Native American Legend: 8 minutes.
• How Frog Went to Heaven: A Tale of Angola: 8 minutes.
• The Legend of Lightning Larry: 8 minutes.
• The Borrower and the Boy: 10 minutes.
• The Boy Who Wanted the Willies: 10 minutes.
• The Crystal Heart: A Vietnamese Legend: 10 minutes.
• Forty Fortunes: A Tale of Iran: 10 minutes.
• The Giant’s Wife: A Tall Tale of Ireland: 10 minutes.
• The Gifts of the Grasscutter: A Tale of India and Pakistan: 10 minutes.
• How Violence Is Ended: A Buddhist Legend: 10 minutes.
• King o’ the Cats: 10 minutes.
• The Legend of Slappy Hooper: An American Tall Tale: 10 minutes.
• Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria: 10 minutes.
• Mop Top: A Tale of Norway: 10 minutes.
• More Than a Match: 10 minutes.
• Peddler Polly and the Story Stealer: 10 minutes.
• The Princess and the God: A Tale of Ancient India: 10 minutes.
• Resthaven: 10 minutes.
• The Sea King’s Daughter: A Russian Legend: 10 minutes.
• Skeeter and the Weasels: 10 minutes.
• When the Twins Went to War: A Fable of Far East Russia: 10 minutes.
• The Christmas Truce: 12 minutes.
• The Magic Brocade: A Tale of China: 12 minutes.
• Master Maid: A Tale of Norway: 12 minutes.
• One‑Eye! Two‑Eyes! Three‑Eyes!: A Very Grimm Fairy Tale: 12 minutes.
• The Princess Mouse: A Tale of Finland: 12 minutes.
• Three Sideways Stories From Wayside School: 12 minutes.
• Count Alaric’s Lady: 14 minutes.
• The Enchanted Storks: A Tale of Bagdad: 14 minutes.
• Captain Cully: 16 minutes.
• The Adventures of Mouse Deer: Favorite Folk Tales of Southeast Asia: 20 minutes.