Plays Children Love A Treasury of Contemporary & Classic Plays for Children

This beloved anthology, a favorite of students, teachers, parents, and dramatists for decades, offers a collection of twenty plays to be performed for young audiences or by child actors. Plays Children Love: Volume IIreplacing the earlier volume, which is now out of printadheres to the same format of Jennings and Harris' earlier classic: a choice of plays for adults to perform for children as well as a choice of plays for kids to produce and perform themselves. Among the favorites collected here: Charlotte's Web, The Wizard of Oz, Treasure Island, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, and Jim Thorpe, All-American. With an extensive introduction detailing the special needs of producing plays for children, and with many insightful instructions for helping children get the most out of producing plays themselves, this book is a solid asset for all classrooms, children's theatre groups, school libraries, education seminars, playwrighting workshops, and the like.Jennings, Coleman A. is the author of 'Plays Children Love A Treasury of Contemporary & Classic Plays for Children', published 1993 under ISBN 9780312079734 and ISBN 0312079737.