Happy new adventures

The Earth has moved around the Sun for another whole year.
May 2014 be full of new adventures for you.

From the page to the stage

What children’s books have you seen adapted to the stage?

There have been plenty of classics such as The Magic Pudding or The Water Babies, but what about shorter picture books. What does it take to make the leap from bedtime story to stage show?

The English production of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt recently toured Melbourne. The popular story can be read in a few minutes, but on stage it becomes a raucous, physical journey that is helped by crowd interaction and fun songs that keep it romping along at a good pace. A simple story perfectly reworked for the theatre, there should be more of it.

What other picture books would you like to see on stage?

Thin red line

Found this thin red line hidden at the bottom of a summertime garden.
Accident or design? We had wind and rain this week, so I like to think it was nature doing the yarn bombing this time.

Yarn Bombing

The street art movement of yarn bombing has spread worldwide in the last few years. Recently it filtered through to the school around the corner. The local kids may not knit or crochet, but they made up for that with imagination and flair as they stormed their school with wool.