Serial Stories

Newspapers encourage parents and teachers to read serial stories with their children and students. Adult readers also enjoy reading the serial stories. NC NIE keeps a list of vendors who offer serial stories and assists newspapers in selecting stories.

Periodically, NC NIE makes available stories in serialized format for publication in newspapers. Accompanying teacher guides and other resources enhance instructional efforts based on the stories.

Specifics details of purchasing, rights and other details vary from story to story.

Currently available for use are:

Behind the High Board Fence

Molly's Beaufort-town

Taffy of Torpedo Junction

Also available to newspapers are online stories from Teachup.com and Mike Peterson. Teachup makes serial stories available chapter by chapter for free online. Coming this fall: Katharine Lee Bates' ("America the Beautiful") version of "Beauty and the Beast," a five-part serial illustrated by Margaret Evans Price (a founder of Fisher-Price toys), followed by the popular serial "Tommy and the Guttersnipe," the eight-part story about self-reliance and honesty, plus the special holiday epilogue to that serial, "Jake's Christmas."

To view samples from Teachup and obtain more information, go to the Weekly Storybook site or for more samples, go here.