Plays Children Love

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 ii―replacing the earlier volume, which is now out of print―adheres 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.review“the most complete guide available on all aspects of children's theater.” ―clarus: words and music for young peoplecoleman a. jennings, professor of creative drama/children's theatre at the university of texas at austin, is the author of three plays for children and editor of four anthologies, includingplays children love, volumes i and ii. in 1997 he received a lifetime achievement award from the american alliance for theatre and education.aurand harris is the most produced playwright for young audiences in the united states, with more than 30 published plays to his credit. before his death in 1996, he was the first children's playwright to receive a creative writing fellowship from the national endowment for the arts, as well as the first to win the charolette chorpenning cup from the american theatre association. his widely revered plays includethe arkansaw bear,androcles and the lion,rags to riches,the tobey show,monkey magic,pinballs, andthe orphan train. harris also wrote stage adaptations for such well-known stories aspocohantas andthe magician's nephew.