Spinderella the spider loves football. She tries to play a match with her brothers and sisters but she doesn’t know how many spiders should be on each team. Even worse, she can’t count the goals. Luckily for Spinderella, her Hairy Godmother has a plan . . .
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Stage your very own What the Ladybird Heard play and bring the farmyard to life. The What the Ladybird Heard Play is colour-coded for each character to help children follow their lines, and there are also ideas for props and staging as well as mask templates for the main characters.
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Six fun-to-act short plays for children aged 5+ Each play has suggestions for activities and tips for staging. Ranging from adaptations of traditional tales to original and contemporary short plays, this book is perfect for schools (key stage one). The plays are : The Three Billy Goats Gruff; The Boy Who Cried Wolf; Turtle Tug; […]
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A play with a Tudor setting. Schoolboy Tom gets into trouble because he prefers collecting frogs to learning Latin. When he runs away and hides in the big house where his sister Joan is a kitchenmaid, he doesn’t realise that he will end up meeting Queen Elizabeth. There are 6 parts for upper juniors. This […]
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A great book of songs based on 10 of her best loved picture books, including Zog, Superworm, Tiddler and The Highway Rat. The lyrics are beautifully illustrated by Axel Scheffler, and in a separate section you can find musical scores for piano and guitar, so schools and families can play the songs for themselves. On the CD you can […]
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In a big old house, the ladybird is visiting her friend the spider for the festive season. But those two bad men, Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len, are up to no good again. They have a devious plan – to steal the children’s Christmas presents from their stockings! It’s a good thing that the clever […]
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This is a collection of poems chosen by Julia Donaldson because they lend themselves to performance by two or more voices. The book, which is illustrated with expressive lino cuts, is perfect for classroom use and fun for families too. The poems range from classics by Edward Lear, W H Auden and Eleanor Farjeon to […]
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Good manners aren’t on the menu at this meal. Duck won’t eat his carrots, Moth is eating the cloth, and Sheep would rather sleep than wash the dishes. A simple rhyming picture book with extra tough pages, suitable for toddlers.
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This play is set in Roman Britain and is suitable for a whole top junior class to read or act. There are notes on simple staging and costumes. A boy digs up a bronze head from a Suffolk river. As he puzzles over it, the dramatic story of the Roman invasion of Britain unfolds in […]
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All the Troll wants is to catch a goat – but when a string of other creatures trip-trap over his bridge instead, he’s stuck with boring old fish for supper. Meanwhile, Hank Chief and his pirate crew are in search of treasure but they keep sailing to the wrong island. Watch the fun unfold as […]
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