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In the Light of a Child: A Journey through the 52 Weeks of the Year in both Hemispheres for Children

By: BURTON, MICHAEL

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Steiner Books:

Seller ID: 908

ISBN: 0880104503

Binding: Paperback

Children live deeply in the experience of the seasons. Their unity with nature is initially unconscious and uncritical, and this "Garden of Eden" consciousness gradually fades as they become more self-aware and confront the outer world as I-beings.

The verses in this book help children bridge the gap from their unconscious connection with nature to a living feeling for the seasons that will stay with them through life.

These verses, following the course of the year, were inspired by Rudolf Steiner's Calendar of the Soul. The book is arranged so that parents, teacher...
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Three Plays for Twelfth Grade

By: BURTON, MICHAEL HADLEY

Price: $42.00

Publisher: Waldorf Publications:

Seller ID: 15520

ISBN: 1888365862

Twelfth grade presents a particular challenge for teachers looking for valuable drama for their students. These three beautifully written, archetypal stories are inspiring, appropriate, daring, and instructive — perfect for twelfth graders ready to graduate and meet the world. "King Oedipus" and "Cassandra" are drawn from Greek theater and mythology. "Fleur and Blanchefleur" is a Medieval tale that informed Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." All three plays draw students into human situations that reflect the many questions that high school students experie...
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A Spiritual Roadmap Walking the Path in the Twenty-first Century

By: BURTON, MICHAEL HEDLEY

Price: $25.00

Publisher: SteinerBooks:

Seller ID: 14219

ISBN: 1621481603

An investigation into the "threshold" - what it is, how humanity is meeting it today, and how it can be crossed.

"I am being driven forward
into an unknown land.
The pass grows steeper,
the air colder and sharper.
A wind from my unknown goal
stirs the strings
of expectation.

Still the question:
will I ever get there?
There where life resounds,
a clear, pure note
in the silence."
- Dag Hammarskjöld

The phrase "walk the path" is a metaphor for the life journey of those who aim toward spiritual il...
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Very Old Donkey, The

By: BURTON, MICHAEL HEDLEY, NEWBATT, DAVID

Price: $16.90

Publisher: United Kingdom, Wynstones Press: 2011

Seller ID: 10126

ISBN: 0946206724

Binding: Paperback

Watercolour and crayon
There is a Very Old Donkey, too old to pull his master's cart. With his best friend, Robbie, he goes on a search to find new work. The Very Old Donkey is a story for children aged 4 to 18.
The story's simplicity, its recognisable animals with the sounds they make, and its element of repetition, make it particularly suitable for being acted out in early stages of learning English.
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Song of a Washing Machine and other loony poems

By: HEDLEY BURTON, MICHAEL

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Self-published:

Seller ID: 15558

Quirky, humorous poems for eurythmists, class teachers, and the young at heart.

New Zealander Michael Burton works as a writer, speech performer, actor, speech therapist, and voice teacher. He is the writer of the script for an international project to perform a play that follows on from the four initiation dramas of Rudolf Steiner.
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This War is not Inevitable

By: MICHAEL HEDLEY BURTON

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: 15613

ISBN: 1978491425

THIS WAR IS NOT INEVITABLE is a play for two actors written by Michael Hedley Burton. It is about the birth of the idea of the Threefold Social Organism (also known as the Threefold Social Order) between 1917 and 1919.
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