Books published by Three Dashes Publications

Horror meets The Twilight Zone and History in this fun, Halloween-Themed Original Tale! Join Young Rosita Alvarado as she saves our planet from an evil mist turning people into zombies and ghosts! The Earth has created this mist in response to our ill treatment of her.Young Rosita enters the haunted mansion of her ancestor, the dread pirate "Captain Blood" and braves his scuttled pirate ship on the bottom of the sea. There she must retrieve the ''Talisman of Ahau-Kin! The Talisman is from the tombs of the ancient Mayans and has the power to cure the planet!Doctor Christopher Kaufman is an award winning teaching artist, composer, filmmaker, concert presenter and author. This book is from the movie Doctor Kaufman created for the World Premier of the Halloween Edition of his concert series for family audiences, The Phantastic Theater.Story, Music and Art all by Doctor Kaufman. His daughter. Sofia Rose Kaufman, stars in the film and book!

AS SEEN AND HEARD ON THE CONCERT STAGE!Dancing Night Hawk is Doctor Christopher Kaufman’s epic tale inspired by Native American Myths. It tells the story of young Dancing Night Hawk who must save the Ne’ne’me’kay’aa, the Thunderbirds who protect her village, from the Ma’ha’kuk, the evil Dragon Lords who hold the Ne’ne’me’kay’aa captive. Join Dancing Night Hawk on her terrific adventure!Dancing Night Hawk is a multi-media work. The live performance is like a cinematic ballet, with dance, acting, puppetry, live music and recorded symphonic music. THIS BOOK comes with a FREE AUDIO ALBUM filled with Doctor Kaufman’s wondrous and highly accomplished symphonic music, full narration, voice acting and sound design!“The combination of book and album creates an immersive experience, like a living movie in your imagination!”Doctor Christopher Kaufman is an award winning teaching artist, composer, concert presenter and author. He maintains an active career as a composer of music for the classical concert stage and film. He earned his doctorate in music composition and pedagogy years ago and has specialized in teaching young people for over 20 years. As director of CHIRON Performing Arts and The Phantaastic Theater, he has presented the work of hundreds of artists of all disciplines.

A newly written quarter note, Celesta, asks, “Why do I look this way? I am a round black circle with a pole sticking out of my head!” To find her answer, she travels to the Blue Moon with Detective Reed. They walk through magic doors into Stone Age caves. They watch ancient Greek music-making and wander into a medieval Italian city where they meet Celesta’s oldest ancestors. Then, as they head for home, they catch a special performance by the Blue Moon Singers and meet a friend, Detective A. Capella, who tells them about a missing ghost note. Come join the fun and read another exciting musical tale by author Alice Cotton.

Harold is writing the music for an upcoming show, but when he takes a break, some of the music flies away! Detective Reed is called in to help bring the music back before Harold returns.  But where did the notes go?The detective, with his key and best friend Glissando, follows clues all over Sound City before finally catching up with Harold’s notes and discovering the secret of Willow Wail.Author, musician, teacher, Alice Cotton does it again with this new fanciful musical adventure. Young readers are drawn into the excitement of the story of Willow Wail as they learn. 

Alice Cotton ~ is an artist, musician, author, and a teacher who continually invites her student’s imaginations into all her classes. She has taught the subjects of mathematics, music, art and architecture, places where imagination can and must flourish.Mary Kogen ~ holds seminars around the US on learning, curiosity, and play. Using movement, rhythm and sound, she often takes her students on “TaKeTiNa” journeys,which isa rhythmic process that super-charges student abilities to learn, think, and createTogether these teachers invite everyone’s imagination into their classrooms. What emerges is amazing, surprising and fun. Together they created this book to help inspire your imaginative power. 

Join Detective Reed on his first Musical Mystery Adventure!  Enjoy this imaginative tale as the musical detective chases a note that has flown from its music!  In this story, everything is music-based and readers learn about many aspects of music as they zoom along with Detective Reed.  Come fly through a magic portal and into clouds of lost quarter notes. Adventure inside a snoring bugle horn and into a forest of rests. Soar deep within an underground music academy where Detective Reed escapes from the shooting C-sharps and witnesses a rare gathering of violins!  Join the Detective when the flying note reveals the real reason it left its music! These stories all take place in Sound City - the creation of author, illustrator and teacher, Alice Cotton.  Many other adventures unfold in Sound City, such as the exciting tale of Allegro, the eighth note, in Alice’s book titled ‘Musical Tales’. Other Detective Reed books:- The Secret at Willow Wail (the land of musical shapes)- Adventures on a Blue MoonAnd many others soon to come!

Three Books in One!In MUSICAL TALES you get three Music Fantasy Adventures from the imagination of Alice Cotton! Alice’s illustrative art leads the way as you experience these whimsical stories centered in ‘Sound City’ - the place where her characters live and thrive.  Readers learn music concepts as they enjoy these brilliant tales.Largo and the Lost Key - Adventure with Largo the half-note through Bongo Drum Park and ‘the Home for lost keys’ as he searches for his lost key Aria.Allegro and the Spring Concert - Allegro, a music note, is desperately trying to reach his place at the end of Muzio Clemente’s Sonatina which a young girl is playing in her recital!  Does he get there in time?Hilo’s Birthday - Sound City Springs to life as Hilo the treble clef’s birthday is celebrated!Alice Cotton is a teacher, artist, author and musician.  Most of her works revolve around sharing her love and passion for music with young people.