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Books and Crooks and Other Plays

By Julia Donaldson
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Books and Crooks and Other Plays features four fun-to-act plays for children aged 10+ from the bestselling author Julia Donaldson. Each play includes helpful, simple guidance on running time and cast, and is beautifully illustrated in black and white by Kate Pankhurst! Ranging from adaptations of... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Books and Crooks and Other Plays

Four original, fun to perform plays for children, from the author of The Gruffalo.

Four original plays from classroom favourite Julia Donaldson, perfect for upper KS2

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Books and Crooks and Other Plays features four fun-to-act plays for children aged 10+ from the bestselling author Julia Donaldson. Each play includes 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 that is 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!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035011773

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 August 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Kate Pankhurst

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 138g

Pages: 192

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About the Author

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 Children's Laureate 2011-13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Julia divides her time between West Sussex and Edinburgh.

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