Books and Crooks and Other Plays features four fun-to-act plays for children aged 10+ from the bestselling author Julia Donaldson. Each play has helpful, simple guidance on running time and cast and is beautifully illustrated in black and white by Kate Pankhurst!
Ranging from adaptations of traditional tales to original and contemporary short plays, Books and Crooks and Other Plays is an entertaining book of plays which perfect for schools (key stage two) and at home.
Includes the following plays: Top of the Mops, Problem Page, Books and Crooks, Persephone with musical score
Discover more original Julia Donaldson plays with The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Other Plays and The Trial of Wilf Wolf and Other Plays!
Julia Donaldson is the author of some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 17 million copies worldwide, and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures. Julia also writes fiction, including the Princess Mirror-Belle books illustrated by Lydia Monks, as well as poems, plays and songs and her brilliant live shows are always in demand. She was Childrens Laureate 201113 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between West Sussex and Edinburgh.
Kate Pankhurst lives in Leeds with her family and spotty dog, Olive. She has a studio based in an old spinning mill where she writes and illustrates childrens books. Her projects have included the Fantastically Great Women series and Mariella Mystery Investigates series. Kate is distantly related to the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, something that has been an influence on the type of books she enjoys creating for children.
