CHILDREN’S LITERATURE by Jeff Sapp

These stories are each of small voices.  But what they teach us - and what they will teach small voices yet to be heard from - is very large and very wonderful.

~ Two-time Newbery Medal winner Lois Lowry - author of The Giver and Number the Stars

speaking about Jeff’s stories ~

Wildcat Goes A-Bragging

An Appalachian Tale


Find out about a braggart wildcat that learns how not to make friends in the Appalachian mountains.

The Tale Of The Dog

A Mayan Fable


A gossiping dog finds out the hard way why it isn’t nice to spread rumors.

The Clever Boy And The Terrible, Dangerous Animal

A Sufi Tale


A clever boy teaches his community how to face their fears head-on.

How The Orca Came To Be

A Love Tale


An Osprey and an Orca - two creatures from two different worlds - fall in love.

Totally Us

An Activity for James Howe’s Adolescent Novel


Jeff worked with American Children’s writer James Howe to develop a lesson plan activity for his wonderful book on treating everyone with respect.

Crocodile and Ghost Bat Have a Hullabaloo

An Australian Tale of Name-Calling


A group of Australian animal friends decide to take a walkabout when things go quickly awry.

A You Rose

An Activity for Gerda Weissmann Klein’s The Blue Rose


Jeff was asked by The Blue Rose Foundation to develop a lesson on Gerda Weissmann Klein’s children’s book about a special girl named Jenny.

Why Frogs and Snakes Never Play Together

A Pourquoi of Prejudice


A chance meeting of a family of frogs and a family of snakes in the woods one day allows wonderful and fun new friendships to be made.  Later, when the siblings tell their parents about their new friends, they are told to never play together again.  Find out why in this easy-to-produce play that teaches about the serious topic of prejudice.

Rhinos & Raspberries

Tolerance Tales for the Early Grades


Jeff’s first children’s book was released in 2006.  It includes 12 fully illustrated stories, along with activity ideas, discussion prompts and full lesson plans, and has been sent free to more than 30,000 teachers, pre-kindergarten through 6th grade.  Lois Lowry - two-time Newbery Medal winner for most distinguished contribution to American literature - wrote the introduction.  Rhinos & Raspberries received the Golden Lamp Award, the Association of Educational Publishers’ top honor.

The Teachers March written by Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace and Illustrated by Charly Palmer

Curriculum Guide by Jeff Sapp


Jeff was invited by Boyds Mills & Kane Publishing to author an original Curriculum Guide for this compelling Civil Rights story.  It tells the story of Reverend F.D. Reese - a leader of the Voting Rights Movement, teacher, and principal - who led the Black teachers of Selma, Alabama on a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote.  Guide available September 2020.

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