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The Journey Within

The Journey Within

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The Journey Within
A Film by Eleanor Hamerow and Naomi Trubowitz
Produced by Renascence Films, 1990

This film documents Richard Lewis and the way he unlocks a child’s capacity for imaginative thinking. Working with a sixth grade class at the Louis Armstrong Intermediate School in New York City, Lewis creates an atmosphere alive with excitement as he […]

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The Touchstone Center Journal

The Touchstone Center Journal

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The Touchstone Center Journal: Writings on the Imagination
Touchstone Center Publications,1997

Made up of a group provocative and inspiring essays on the imagination by speakers who participated in a series of programs, produced by the Touchstone Center, at the American Museum of Natural History and the Abrons Arts Center of the Henry Settlement. Included are essays […]

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The Touchstone Center Study

The Touchstone Center Study

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The Touchstone Study: Bringing the Arts to the Schools
By Lillian Goldberg
Touchstone Center Publications,1984

An important study examining the innovative interdiscplinary thematic process of the The Touchstone Center during a five year residency at an elementary school in New York City. Stimulating reading for anyone involved in the role the arts can play in education, and […]

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Fire, Fire, Burning Bright

Fire, Fire, Burning Bright

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Fire, Fire, Burning Bright: Six Programs for Young People on the Nature and Origins of Poetry
Written and Narrated by Richard Lewis.
Produced by Charles Potter.
Touchstone Center Publications,1985

Six fifteen minute audiotapes for young people based the themes of the sky, the sea, time, dreams, death, and love. Each tape explores how these themes have been expressed […]

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The Thread at Play

The Thread at Play

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Caleu Está Soñando
(The Thread at Play)
Edited by Cecilia Vicuña and Geoffrey Jones
Camera and Sound by Claudio Mercado
Touchstone Center Publications, 1999

In this videotape, poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña, documents her workshops with children in a small mountain village school in Chilé, bringing them into a metaphoric celebration of their inward thoughts and playfulness. The result […]

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The Image of Nature

The Image of Nature

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The Image of Nature
By Richard Lewis
Touchstone Center Publications, 1981

This monograph is a distillation of ideas central to a workshop given for teachers on ways to help children perceive the natural environment by using Chinese and Japanese poetry.

14 pages • paperbound

Download and view this book as a PDF.

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To Make a World

To Make a World

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To Make A World
Filmed and Edited by Betsy Newman
Written and Narrated by Richard Lewis
Touchstone Center Publications, 1997

A quiet visual evocation of children creating art-work interspersed with images and sounds of the natural world accompanied by a poem encouraging us to use our imagination to observe – and ultimately, express the many “worlds” of nature.

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Versions of the Traditional

Versions of the Traditional

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Versions of the Traditional: A Journal of Translations From Indigenous Cultures
Touchstone Center Publications, 1989

A collection of translations by outstanding poets, anthropologists, and story-tellers, who participated in the Center’s long-term series at the American Museum of Natural History, rendering the mythic and poetic material of indigenous cultures throughout the world. Included are translations from, amongst […]

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In a Spring Garden

In a Spring Garden

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In a Spring Garden
Edited by Richard Lewis
Illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats
Dial Press,1976

Using Japanese haiku poems, this book chronicles a day in spring from an early morning question put to a snail to the glowing good night of a firefly. With delicate and striking full color illustrations by the noted children’s book illustrator and Caldecott […]

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All of You was Singing

All of You was Singing

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All of You was Singing
By Richard Lewis
Illustrated by Ed Young
Atheneum, 1991

A rendering of an ancient Aztec myth about how music came to the earth. With Caldecott winner Ed Young’s stunning artwork based on Mexican designs and motifs, this book offers the reader a story full of light and magic, and the breath of being […]