| Description |
xii, 678 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Part one : Plays for adult performers -- Snow White and the seven dwarfs / Jessie Braham White -- Androcles and the lion / Aurand Harris -- Sleeping beauty / Charlotte B. Chorpenning -- Birthday of the infanta / Stuart Walker -- Tom Sawyer / Sara Spencer -- Winnie-the-Pooh / Kristin Sergel -- Toby show / Aurand Harris -- Wiley and the hairy man / Jack Stokes -- Johnny Moonbeam and the silver arrow / Joseph Golden -- Step on a crack / Suzan Zeder -- I didn't know that! / Louis Moloney, Johnny Saldaña, Joyce Chambers Selber, Rachel Winfree -- Part two : Plays for children to perform -- Introduction : an improvisational approach to staging -- Jack and the beanstalk / Robert Rafferty -- Ming Lee and the magic tree / Aurand Harris -- Ma and the kids / Judith Martin -- Hands off! Don't touch! / Judith Martin -- Punch and Judy / Traditional -- Pinocchio and the fire-eater / Aurand Harris -- In one basket (Tale of a mouse, the rich man, three wishes, Gustav) / Shirley Pugh -- Fisherman and his wife / Lowell Swortzell -- Christmas pageant / Traditional -- Yankee Doodle dandies (Johnny Appleseed, Harriet Tubman, Casey at the bat) / Aurand Harris -- Buffalo and the bell / Kim Wheetley |
| Summary |
A collection of twenty-five plays to be performed for young audiences or by child actors |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Children's plays, American.
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Plays.
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| Author |
Harris, Aurand.
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Jennings, Coleman A., 1933-
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Swan, Susan, 1944- illustrator
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| LC no. |
80002412 |
| ISBN |
0385170963 |
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