Performing Arts

'This Primary Drama Handbook offers much more than just a few useful tips on how to use drama in the primary school. It moves way beyond the more well-known basic drama strategies to present comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the role drama can play...

A dramatic adaptation of the celebrated Anglo-Saxon epic poem in which a wandering hero comes to the aid of a nation held in terror by a savage monster.Book InformationISBN 9781408520024Author David CalcuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Nelson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525428558Author Brad MeltzerFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Dial Books for Young Readers,USPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

In this new and updated edition, Patrice Baldwin brings together key findings from brain research and best practice to highlight the benefits that drama and imagined experience can have on learning, creativity, thinking skills, memory, motivation and...

Everybody loves the BFG. Now children can bring him to life!Children will have a phizzwizardly good time - and their friends won't believe their gogglers!David Wood has created seven short plays to read and perform. With notes on simple staging, props...

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis...

Based on debut author Farrah Riaz's own childhood experiences comes The Twirly Wiggly Dance, a relatable story about dancing to your own beat set against the celebratory backdrop of a South-Asian Muslim wedding, bursting with colourful illustrations by...

Having fled from Garmany in 1933 to escape the Nazis, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in 1940. Anne, devoted to writing about her experiences, tells us of the tensions and terrors during the period in which the family hid in an attic...

I Was There... is a perfect introduction for younger readers into stories from the past, allowing children to imagine that they were really there. I Was There... Ira Aldridge tells the exciting story of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781690409618Author Inspired Inner GeniusFormat HardbackPage Count 36Imprint Inspired Inner GeniusPublisher Inspired Inner GeniusWeight(grams)...

"I know that things of that kind always are known, and the people I've been thrown with, sooner or later, always turned out to have heard the story. Or if they hadn't," said Miss Marchrose in a voice of calm despair, "someone took the trouble to tell...

Thanks to its innovative storytelling, breathtaking special effects, and engaging characters, Star Trek has, for over 55 years, captivated the imaginations of generations of fans. But far more than a simple entertainment, Star Trek has long been cited as...

The classic bestselling Angelina Ballerina picture book about Angelina performing as Cinderella in a traveling tour is back in a beautiful, refreshed hardcover edition! Angelina is playing the lead in the Cinderella Dance Tour traveling across Mouseland...

It's the mother of all kids' joke books-an all-encompassing, gut-busting, and bestselling collection of more than 1,700 jokes, tongue-twisters, riddles, and puns for all occasions. Here are 61 elephant jokes, including: What did the elephant say when he...

First Published in 1998. This book sets the foundations for educational dance in relation to pupils with wide-ranging learning needs. It takes seriously the notion of 'dance for all' and explores a developmental approach for taking movement into dance,...

From Roman Holiday to Breakfast at Tiffany's, when Audrey Hepburn starred in a movie, she lit up the screen. Her unique sense of fashion, her grace, and, most important, her spirit made her beloved by generations. But her life offscreen was even more...

Let There Be Play is the perfect story and activity book to spark children's imaginative exploration of the Bible. This creative approach helps children develop a sense of wonder about the Bible by employing storytelling, dramatic play, arts and crafts...

The first of its kind, it is the result of the authors' original research- which examines the data retrieved from a survey given to 150 older autistic adults worldwide. The insight into the lives and experiences of these individuals from a time before...

Ever since she was a child, Ariana Grande has been performing. When she was just fifteen years old, she made her Broadway debut in the musical 13. Shortly after, she appeared in the Nickelodeon TV show Victorious as the character Cat Valentine. During...

What the Ladybird Heard, bestselling picture book from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, has been adapted by author Julia Donaldson into a fun and accessible play script that children will love performing at school or at home.The What the Ladybird Heard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493836130Author Jessica LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Teacher Created Materials, IncPublisher Teacher Created Materials, Inc

Let others sing of war and a hero buffeted by fate. I sing of marriage and a marriage bed, and the endurance of love.With an introduction by the author, this is Tom Stoppard in the voice of Odysseus's wife recalling how the Trojan War 'took away my...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608879540Author Barry HutchisonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780756602338Author DKFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Dorling KindersleyPublisher DKWeight(grams) 74gDimensions(mm) 281mm * 217mm * 3mm

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Cinderella is tired of a life of chores, but everything changes when her fairy godmother turns up. Just as she meets her perfect prince, though, the clock chimes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913519001Author Moira ButterfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Welbeck EditionsPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group

Take your seats, because Where Is Broadway? is ready to take center stage!In a lively and engaging style, authors Douglas Yacka and Francesco Sedita cover the development of the first theaters and the birth of the American musical, as well as the shows...

This wonderfully accessible and practical guide provides a range of effective strategies for teaching drama. Written with her usual practicality, humour and optimism, Sue Cowley demonstrates how drama can make lessons across the curriculum more...

"The Maigret of the Dales" 'Gil North's atmospheric writing shows the influence of Simenon, and Gunnarshaw's finest, Sergeant Caleb Cluff, is a memorable detective - the Maigret of the Dales' Martin Edwards, CWA Diamond Dagger winner 2020 and author of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496565822Author Benjamin BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Stone Arch BooksPublisher Capstone Press

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide...

Lights, camera, play! With this second edition of On Stage: Theater Games and Activities for Kids, budding thespians will have fun under the footlights as they choose from more than 125 theater games that spark creativity, boost confidence, and encourage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525645405Author John Robert AllmanFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Random House USA Children's BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Divided into five, colour-coded sections, this life-coaching write-in workbook asks you to Clarify, Conquer, Choose, Celebrate and Commit in order to significantly change the path you are on.Using visualizations and exercises, the book will help you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467568326Author ASC Michael GoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Independent PublisherPublisher Independent PublisherWeight(grams) 764gDimensions(mm)...

Join Lola on her backstage adventure in the first picture book created with the National Theatre.It's showtime! Lola is a little actor with big dreams. But when disaster strikes on opening night and an important prop goes missing backstage, can Lola save...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861966738Author Amy M. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & CoWeight(grams) 649g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781481470438Author Laurie CalkhovenFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Simon SpotlightPublisher Simon SpotlightWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Hippogriffs, dragons, Thestrals and merpeople - discover the magical creatures of the Wizarding World through a series of bewitchingly beautiful paper-cut scenes. This carefully crafted gift book contains four intricate, multi-layer paper-cut scenes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954571259Author Ron LeishmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Playing with PlaysPublisher Playing with PlaysWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...