Find tips, reviews, and features on Theatre for Children Format Hardcover sold for 25.29 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
One of the worlds leading childrens dramatists provides a practical handbook of the skills involved in entertaining and involving audiences of children A marvelous contribution to the world of Youth Theatera must Robyn Flatt Dallas Childrens Theater He has often been called the National Playwright for Children and he deserves it Cameron Mackintosh
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on The Alchemy of Theatre Essays sold at 23.38 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
The editor of Playbills At This Theatre and founding editor of the new Playbill Broadway Yearbook offers a collection of 26 essays on theatre by the top professionals in their fields Includes contributions by two recently departed leading lights playwright Wendy Wasserstein and songwriter Cy Coleman Also featured are Chita Rivera and Edward Albee costume designer William Ivey Long set designer Robin Wagner and director and choreographer Susan Stroman
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The complete collection of E E Cummingss writing for the stage from the most inventive poet of the twentieth centuryThe Theatre of E E Cummings collects in their entirety Cummingss long outofprint theatrical works the plays HIM 1927 Anthropos 1930 and Santa Claus 1946 and the ballet treatment Tom 1935 In HIM a creatively blocked artist and his lover Me struggle to bridge the impasse in their relationship and in his art In Anthropos a Platonic parable three infrahumans brainstorm slogans while a man sketches on a cave wall and in Santa Claus Death and Saint Nick exchange identities Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin is reimagined as dance transforming the novel into a symbolic attack against Evil itself Cummingss prodigious creativity is on display in each of these works which are ultimately about the place of the artist outside of society DONT TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT LET IT TRY TO UNDERSTAND YOU Cummings famously wrote about his intentions for the stage Thoughtful and witty Cummingss dramas are an integral part of his canon
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Theatre World Volume 66 2009, priced at 34.37 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Celebrating its 66th year Theatre World is the most comprehensive record of the theatrical season on Broadway OffBroadway OffOffBroadway and in regional theatre Each of the 1 000plus entries includes photos a complete cast listing producers directors authors composers opening and closing dates song titles and plot synopses Theatre World also features the years obituaries a listing of all nominees and winners of the major theatrical awards the longestrunning shows on and OffBroadway and a complete indexThe 20092010 season found bigscreen stars continuing their trend of taking to the stage with Jude Law in Hamlet and Catherine ZetaJones in Stephen Sondheims A Little Night Music lighting up Broadway while Cate Blanchett wowed all at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire Donald Margulies Time Stands Still with Laura Linney and David Mamets Race with James Spader led the season of new Broadway plays while David Greenspans oneman The Myopia and Horton Footes magnum opus The Orphans Home Cycle debuted to raves OffBroadway Fela based on the life of AfricanAmerican composer Fela Anikulapo Kuti was a musical sensation and Dreamgirls had another noteworthyrevival at the Apollo Theatre that went on to a successful national tour Regionally Hughie and Krapps Last Tape starring Brian Dennehy at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and American Idiot the Green Day musical at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre were regional hits
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on The Itheatrics Method the Quintessential sold at 43.49 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
The iTheatrics Method is the worlds first musical theatre education textbook specifically devoted to building highquality sustainable musical theatre programs in schools and community settingsCreated by iTheatrics the leading authority on music theatre education this book is the culmination of more than twenty years of handson teacher training conducted by master educators Timothy Allen McDonald Cynthia A Ripley and Marty Johnson These methods have been vetted by the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts prestigious Changing Education Through the Arts CETA initiative and have been eagerly embraced by New York City s Department of Education and the President s Committee on the Arts and the HumanitiesWritten in an entertaining conversational style and featuring hundreds of images from successful musical theatre programs all over the world this book also includes the advice of more than 100 instructors currently working in the field Whether you re a teacher just starting out or a seasoned professional The iTheatrics Method isindeed your quintessential guide to creating quality musical theatre programs for students
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on At This Theatre Revised and sold at 28.95 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Theatregoers favorite history of Broadway is back in an updated and expanded 2010 edition including more than 500 color production photos vintage archival photos and Playbill covers from all forty currently operating Broadway theatres Thirtyeight of the original chapters have been expanded to cover all the shows that have opened in the ten years since the popular 2000 edition with two new chapters added to include Broadway theatres recently refurbished and returned to lifeThis unique chronicle is the first work to present a detailed theatrebytheatre roundup of players and productions that have enchanted audiences at Broadways great playhouses from 1900 to 2010The work is an expanded treatment of At This Theatre the popular feature in Playbills Broadway theatre programs At This Theatre offers playgoers instant nostalgia by listing notable hits and some famed fiascos that have played through the years in the theatre that they are attending The book also pays tribute to the distinguished impresarios who built and managed these houses and the brilliant architects and interior designers who created themThe original 1984 edition was created by Playbill senior editor Louis Botto Botto worked with editor Robert Viagas on the 2000 update With the third edition Botto has passed the author torch to Viagas who founded Playbillcom and the acclaimed Playbill Broadway Yearbook series and who has written the updates in Bottos style
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Discover information, advice, and prices for The Neurobehavioral and Social Emotional, priced at 51.31 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Internationally recognized as one of the premier researchers on child development Ed Tronick has held notable teaching positions and conducted vital research for nearly 30 years Over the course of his esteemed career he has received funding for hundreds of key studies in the US and abroad on normal and abnormal infant and child developmentincluding his Mutual Regulation Model and StillFace Paradigm which revolutionized our understanding of infants emotional capacities and copingall of which led to critical contributions in the field Much of his work serves as the benchmark for how mental health clinicians think about biopsychosocial states of consciousness the process of meaning making and how and why we engage with others in the world Now for the first time Tronick has gathered together his most influential writings in a single essential volume Organized into five partsI Neurobehavior II Culture III Infant SocialEmotional Interaction IV Perturbations Natural and Experimental and V Dyadic Expansion of Consciousness and Meaning Makingthis book represents his major ideas and studies regarding infantadult interactions developmental processes and mutual regulation carefully addressing such questions asWhat is a state of consciousnessWhat are the developing infants capacities for neurobehavioral selforganizationHow are early infantadult interactions organizedHow can we understand the nature of normal versus abnormal developmentHow do self and mutual regulation relate to developmental processesIs meaning making purely a function of the brain or is it in our bodies as wellAs a bonus the book includes a DVDROM with video clips of Tronicks StillFace Paradigm an invaluable teaching aid
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Discover information, advice, and prices for A Handbook of Play Therapy, priced at 106.45 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Written by two authors with a combined experience of more than fifty years in the residential treatment of severely aggressiveand often traumatizedchildren this book has proven invaluable to new as well as seasoned child practitioners The chapters cover the nuts and bolts of play therapy with this extremely challenging clinical population including the therapeutic alliance aims of play therapy with aggressive children setting limits on destructive and obtrusive behaviors typical play themes of aggressive children and developing distancing and displacement through playful action and through teaching modeling and structuring action play Other chapters cover such topics as how to create more mature defenses and calming strategies the role of interpretation the use of spontaneous drawings as a bridge to fantasy play specific drawing techniques to create access to the inner world of children how to teach and model prosocial skills and the language of feeling and how to facilitate affect expression and modulation contained reenactment of trauma and childrens ability to mourn tangible as well as intangible unacknowledged and invisible losses Later chapters cover the therapeutic process and techniques to facilitate termination The authors introduce the Play Therapy Decision Grid which is intended to guide the therapist into the levels of therapy best suited for the child at any given point based on the childs resources and the anxiety engendered by the therapy
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Childrens Services Today a Practical sold for 110.84 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Here one of Americas foremost experts in public library services to children cover the basics of library services for children Jeanette Larson highlights best practices and toolkits that provide tools and resources to quickly implement programs and services She includes model programs checklists and forms and readytouse examples of programs with an emphasis on programs that are inexpensive to implement and simple to replicate From start to finish learn how to plan implement and manage public library programs and services for children ages birth to twelve years old Childrens services are a critical part of todays library services and staff need basic background information practical advice and specific examples of how to perform the fundamental duties required of them Special features of the book includeBasic information on how to implement the fundamental services and programs of library services to childrenBackground and rationale for the provision of these services and programs Enhancements for childrens programs and services that support literacy and learningTemplates for successful programsExamples of inexpensive and readytouse programs ranging from simple to ongoing and more elaborate programsChildrens Services Today A Practical Guide for Librarians offers basic background practical experience and best practices necessary for the successful provision of childrens services in todays public library Whether you are a parttime childrens librarian in a small rural library a generalist assigned to provide childrens programming in a mediumsized library or a paraprofessional working in the childrens department in a large urban library this practical guide will help you implement dynamic programs and services that meet the needs of todays children and families
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Fantasy Literature for Children and, priced at 76.03 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Fantasy conjures up images of witches fairies dark woods magic wands and spells time travel ghosts and dragons Each of us defines fantasy in a personal way based on our life stories experiences hopes dreams and fears Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults helps teachers and students of literature to develop their own understandings of this broad genre in order to evaluate and promote the joy of fantasy in their classroomsAn excellent teaching tool the discussions are organized around three categories of fantasy literature including fairyfolktale mixed fantasy which includes journey transformation talking animal and magic and heroicethical and they are supported by wellchosen examples of representative authors critics and theoristsWith the assumption that the reader has no special knowledge of fantasy literature but has some previous exposure to the study of literature for children and young adults this book focuses on reviewing texts that illustrate particular types of fantasy literature The authors have an extensive knowledge of both classic and contemporary childrens and YA titles and they offer many insightful observations and details that make a book a particularly good classroom choiceLiterature allows us to discuss controversial issues without making judgments it allows us the opportunity to experience another time and space by providing a new lens through which to view and it offers us a multitude of ways to come to appreciate and embrace the world of fantasy Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults will help teachers and other readers to deepen their knowledge appreciation and pedagogical understandings of fantasy literature
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Discover information, advice, and prices for The Best in Children s sold for 77.18 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
With so many new childrens books published each year how can children learn to choose good books and how can adults help them This guide is designed to aid adultsparents teachers librariansin selecting from the best childrens literature published in recent years By encouraging reading and ownership of books by suggesting better books and by discussing good books with enthusiasm and understanding adults may help children to acquire discrimination in reading This guide contains 1400 reviews of the best childrens literature published between 1966 and 1972
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on The Children of Palomar Format sold at 20.76 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
New Tales Old Palomar is collects a threeissue comics magazine series into one handsome book In the first story mysterious fastmoving thieves are stealing food Sheriff Chelo and some citizens do their best to solve this mystery but nobody seems to be able to catch these bandits until Pipo puts her soccertrained legs to work and goes after them herself In the second the boys go exploring a bottomless chasm and come face to face with well we wont spoil the surprise The third and last story focuses on Tonantzin Everybody in Palomar seems to take the supernatural with a grain of salt but young Tonantzin is haunted by a laughing baby that only appears to her What is the babys link to the giant stone idols that stand outside the small town
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Create a Thriving Family Legacy sold at 20.39 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
AN INTENTIONAL PLAN FOR A LASTING LEGACY You will Leave A Legacy for the next generation We all willWill your legacy include the values virtues guiding principles and culture that youve worked hard to instill in your family or business In Create a Thriving Family Legacy How to Share Your Wisdom and Wealth with Your Children and Grandchildren Jeff Rogers details how you can take a different approach to estate planning Instead of merely transferring wealth to the next generation Jeff teaches you how to prepare your heirs with wisdom and values helping them thrive well beyond your years Dont just transfer your valuables transfer your values Dont just transfer your wealth transfer your wisdom to your children and grandchildren Let Jeff become your guide as you intentionally create the legacy you truly want to leave behind This book will be your field guide to wholelife stewardship looking at five aspects of legacyPERSONAL LEGACY FAMILY LEGACY FINANCIAL LEGACY BUSINESS LEGACY KINGDOM LEGACYIf you want to create a lasting legacy that blesses your family furthers Gods Kingdom and supports the causes you love then Create a Thriving Family Legacy is for you
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Play Therapy with Sexually Abused sold for 90.35 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Here is a disguised but tragically accurate account of a 7yearold boy who was repeatedly victimized by two uncles who penetrated him required him under threat of violence to act upon them and forced him to have sexual contact with his sister for their entertainment Before his ongoing abuse was discovered the child made several serious suicide attempts Verbatim accounts of the childs therapy are used to illustrate a new treatment approach for abused children Synergistic Play Therapy which follows the work of Haim Ginott and Heinz Werner Much that is written about play therapy focuses on theoretical notions or intuitive impressionistic judgment Seldom does a work make clear the rationale by which play strategies and techniques are derived from underlying constructs This book links theoretical reasoning with the specific dos and donts of clinical practice The purpose rationale and impact for interventions are woven into session transcripts and related to the concepts upon which Synergistic Play Therapy is based Topics covered include rapport building and the beginning of restoration of the childs trust in an adult male therapeutic contact negotiation the introduction of metaphor indirect referencing of the trauma and the process building toward explicit emotional disclosure and metaphoric retribution the restoration of selfesteem emotional inoculation against regression and the emergence of a futureoriented perspective characterized by confidence and hopefulness Therapists need a clearly defined and welldocumented set of guidelines for the treatment of sexually abused children Abused children become adult perpetrators in numbers disproportionate to the rest of the population but this dire statistic holds true only for those victims who have not been effectively helped as children This book offers a means to provide such treatment
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Healing Relational Trauma with sold at 41.61 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
From the founder of DDP this updated and comprehensive guide is the authoritative text on DDP DDP is an attachmentfocused treatment for children and adolescents who experience abuse and neglect and who are now living in stable foster and adoptive families Its central interventions are influenced by enhanced knowledge about the structure and functions of the brain as well as the latest findings regarding developmental trauma and the related attachment problems it brings
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Historical Dictionary of Children s, priced at 104.13 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Childrens literature comes from a number of different sourcesfolklore folk and fairy tales books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children and material authored specifically for themand its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults readers from about 12 to 18 years old Its forms include picturebooks popup books anthologies novels merchandising tieins novelizations and multimedia texts and its genres include adventure stories drama science fiction poetry and information books The Historical Dictionary of Childrens Literature relates the history of childrens literature through a chronology an introductory essay appendixes a bibliography and over 500 crossreferenced dictionary entries on authors books and genres Some of the most legendary names in all of literature are covered in this important reference including Hans Christian Anderson L Frank Baum Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens CS Lewis Beatrix Potter JK Rowling Robert Louis Stevenson Mark Twain JRR Tolkien Jules Verne and EB White
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Using Hypnosis with Children Creating sold for 35.16 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
How to create and deliver effective hypnotic interventions with children From the initial interview to creating the best metaphors Using Hypnosis with Children is a practical stepbystep guide that shows health care providers including therapists nurses pediatricians dentists and educators how to create and deliver hypnotic interventions that are customized and effective into their pediatric clinical work with utilization and flexibility as key components to an overall treatment approach Using case examples of language for all age groups readers learn first how to identify the salient targets or themes deliver a session that hits these targets with precision and then connect the session to the childs everyday experience More broadly readers learn to use hypnosis as a way to help create new neural pathways teach selfregulation introduce a more internal locus of control and develop positive interpersonal experiences Chapters focus on the most common issues that children face including anxiety depression medical procedurespain and sleep
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Find tips, reviews, and features on The Small Backs of Children sold for 20.23 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
National BestsellerA masterful literary talent explores the treacherous often violent borders between war and sex love and artWith the flash of a camera one girls life is shattered and a host of others altered forever In a wartorn village in Eastern Europe an American photographer captures a heartstopping image a young girl flying toward the lens fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family The image wins acclaim and prizes becoming an icon for millionsand a subject of obsession for one writer the photographers best friend who has suffered a devastating tragedy of her ownAs the writer plunges into a suicidal depression her filmmaker husband enlists several friends including a fearless bisexual poet and an ingenuous performance artist to save her by rescuing the unknown girl and bringing her to the United States And yet as their plot unfolds everything we know about the story comes into question What does the writer really want Who is controlling the action And what will happen when these two worldseast and west real and virtualcollideA fierce provocative and deeply affecting novel of both ideas and action that blends the tight construction of Julian Barness The Sense of an Ending with the emotional power of Anthony Marras A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Lidia Yuknavitchs The Small Backs of Children is a major step forward from one of our most avidly watched writers
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Works for Children and Young, priced at 64.5 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Throughout his long career as a poet fiction writer and chronicler of the situation of blacks throughout the world Langston Hughes also wrote books for children Whether fiction poetry or nonfiction these works are true literature into which he put much research thought creative energy and love His young readers then and now can sense that they are just as important as his adult audience while adult readers can appreciate the skill of a great writer able to speak to readers of all ages Beginning with four pieces Hughes published in The Brownies Book a magazine for black children edited by W E B Du Bois and Jessie Fauset this volume also includes two works first published in 1932 Popo and Fifina a story of two children living in Haiti which Hughes wrote with Arna Bontemps and The Dream Keeper and Other Poems a collection Hughes chose explicitly for young people In The First Book of Negroes The First Book of Rhythms The First Book of Jazz The First Book of the West Indies and The First Book of Africa all originally published between 1952 and 1960 Hughes hits just the right tone presenting the history of Africans throughout the world without being condescending or simplistic It is clear that for Hughes Africans and African cultures contribute to a world culture and a world community Also included in this essential volume are a number of uncollected poems for children the captions Hughes wrote for Black Misery which he completed just before his death in 1967 as well as several books published posthumously The Sweet and Sour Animal Book and The Pasteboard Bandit the latter also written with Arna Bontemps Hughess books for children remain entertaining moving beautiful and relevant For scholars of African American literature and history and for readers of all ages these are works to be enjoyed and to be taken seriously
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Parenting Children with Diabetes a sold for 26.97 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Parenting Children with Diabetes addresses the absence of information needed for successful diabetes management including more advanced diabetes education information on emotional trauma relationships issues and problems inside and outside the home that are caused while growing up with diabetesThis book offers parents a 360degree perspective of what is happening to their child as they grow into and grow up with diabetes from diagnosis to monitoring and controlling their blood sugars to their exposure to other peoples opinions in schools and other common situations as to how they should handle their diabetes This book provides parents with special tools insights and education so they can more confidently and effectively communicate understand and empathize with their childs experience with diabetes and their childs relationship with the world around them Eliot LeBow thoughtfully addresses readers and his work Helps parents resolve resistance to diabetes managementCreates and fosters emotional stability within the family living with diabetesGuides parents to building a healthy supportive relationship for and with their child Prepares parents for the emotional ups and downs of diabetes managementOffers insight into situations most children living with diabetes faceProvides information about working with the school system to make sure their child is safe
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