Children's Classics in Dramatic Form

Here are your favorite stories, but now you are inside them. Augusta Stevenson transformed timeless tales from Grimm, Aesop, and Hans Christian Andersen into seventeen short plays built for young performers. These are not passive reads. They are blueprints for acting, for speaking lines that once lived only in bedtime stories, for becoming the wolf or the princess or the clever peasant child. Each play distills the essence of its source into tight dialogue and clear scenes, designed so children can mount productions with minimal adult direction. The magic of these stories meets the magic of childhood imagination, and the result is something that has been quietly enriching classrooms and family gatherings for over a century. Whether used for educational purposes, theatrical fun, or simply to bring classics to life in a new way, this collection proves that the oldest stories still want to be told by young voices.