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Multi-Grade Readers Theatre
Author: Suzanne I. BarchersPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1591588219
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
36 readers theatre scripts use authors and illustrators to awaken student imaginations. This book of 36 readers theatre scripts (one for each week of the school year) concentrates on scripts written at multiple reading levels with a large number of partsincluding choral reading partsthat enable the entire class to participate. The first 18 scripts are written for 1st-3rd grade reading levels and feature giants of kids literature like Margaret Wise Brown, James Marshall, Bill Martin Jr., Bill Peet, and Beatrix Potter. The second 18 scripts are written for 2nd-4th grade reading levels to allow for growth throughout the school year. This group of plays introduces students to Stan Berenstain, Arnold Lobel, Shel Silverstein, and Tasha Tudor, among others. Carefully designed to meet the needs of students of various reading levels, the scripts are also ideal for use with remedial readers. Grades 2-5
Going to the Theater
Author: Florence DucatteauPublisher: Want to Know
ISBN: 9781605372532
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Offers information about theater, including the different cultural expressions of theater, what the director's job is, and why dress rehearsal is so important.
Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880
Author: Julie Stone PetersPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199262168
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.
William Shakespeare & the Globe
Author: AlikiPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064437221
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Night′s Dream, Shakespeare′s celebrated works have touched people around the world. Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeare′s world-his life in Elizabethan times, the theater world, and the Globe, for which he wrote his plays. Then she brings history full circle to the present-day reconstruction of the Globe theater. Ages 8+
The Secret Hen House Theatre
Author: Helen PetersPublisher: Nosy Crow
ISBN: 0857630660
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Since the death of her mother, Hannah's family life has been somewhat chaotic. Her father is absorbed by running their dilapidated farm, and the four children are increasingly left to their own devices. These include "farming" each room of the house, looking after an enormous pet sheep called Jasper, and writing and directing plays in a disused hen house. But when the farm is threatened with demolition, Hannah determines to save it and realise her dreams at the same time... Shortlisted for the Waterstones Prize, this is a brilliant story of eccentric family life where the children's imaginations run as free as the farmyard animals. From the award-winning author of Evie's Ghost, Anna at War, The Farm Beneath the Water and the Jasmine Green series for younger readers, this is perfect for fans of Iva Ibbotson and Philippa Pearce.
Gruffalo. Pop-up Theatre Book
Author: Julia DonaldsonPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
ISBN: 9780230531796
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Bring THE GRUFFALO to life in your very own theatre! Read the story, then open the pop-up stage and bring it to life with a deep-dark-wood set, press-out character pieces and wands to help them move across the stage. Follow the script and act out the adventures of the mouse or create a brand-new play of your own! With no folding, cutting or gluing, plus lots of tips and hints, it couldnt be easier to stage your own performance. Wonderful entertainment for all the family over the Christmas holidays and beyond!
Rosie's Magic Horse
Author: Russell HobanPublisher: Walker
ISBN: 9781406339826
Category : Animals, Mythical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A story that could only have come from the imagination of Russell Hoban! Brought vividly to life by picture book great, Quentin Blake.This story begins with an ice-lolly stick. Its sweetness gone, it lies discarded and lonely ... until a little girl called Rosie comes along. She places it carefully in her cigar box, full of other sticks. "Without our ice-lollies we are nothing," says an old stick. But new stick wants to BE something and into the minds of all the old sticks, he plants dreams ... maybe they can be something, too. What about Rosie and her dreams that night? She dreams of helping her parents pay the bills. And so, at the stroke of midnight, magic and dreams collide and a HORSE gallops out of the cigar box! His name is Stickerino. "Where to?" he asks Rosie. "Anywhere with treasure!" she answers and hops on its back. Then begins an adventure like no other ... ice-lolly mountains by the sea, caskets of gold, and pirates foiled by a stickling ice-cream van...
The Theatre Cat
Author: Noel StreatfeildPublisher:
ISBN: 9781407194981
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A picture book by the author of BALLET SHOES, available againafter almost 70 years! Pinkie the cat works at the ballet theatreas a mouser. Heloves watching the dancers, but he's scaredof the mice he's meant to catch! What's a ballet-loving cat to do? Rarely seen since its first publication in 1951, this charming time capsule of a book is sure to delight readers of any age.
All the World's a Stage
Author: Rebecca Piatt DavidsonPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0060296267
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This is young William, His mind all ablaze, Who stays up all night Writing poems and plays. And this is a book, unforgettable and wise, that applauds inspiration, creation, story, and the world and works of William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Anita Lobel, All the World's a Stage pays tribute to the act of turning words into art.
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