Author: Shel Silverstein
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822218975
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Shel's Shorts
Author: Shel Silverstein
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822218975
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822218975
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Giving Tree
Author: Shel Silverstein
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061965103
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a classic that will now reach an even wider audience. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit. And don't miss the other Shel Silverstein ebooks, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061965103
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a classic that will now reach an even wider audience. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit. And don't miss the other Shel Silverstein ebooks, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!
Getting Frankie Married-- and Afterwards
Author: Horton Foote
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822219323
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
THE STORY: Frankie, a traditional girl from a traditional town, has been leading an untraditional life. For over twenty years she has been Fred's girlfriend, and though she longs to be married, Fred has never asked--until now. Why the change of hear
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822219323
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
THE STORY: Frankie, a traditional girl from a traditional town, has been leading an untraditional life. For over twenty years she has been Fred's girlfriend, and though she longs to be married, Fred has never asked--until now. Why the change of hear
Borderlines
Author: John Bishop
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822201359
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
THE STORIES: The first half of the program, entitled BORDERLINE, chronicles the psychic disintegration of Charles Graham, a young advertising/marketing executive who, it would seem, has it all--a good job, a loving wife and children, a comfortable
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822201359
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
THE STORIES: The first half of the program, entitled BORDERLINE, chronicles the psychic disintegration of Charles Graham, a young advertising/marketing executive who, it would seem, has it all--a good job, a loving wife and children, a comfortable
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Author: Robert Emmet Sherwood
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822200017
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
THE STORY: The play shows in a series of scenes the critical years of Lincoln's early manhood up to the moment of his election as president. We see the backwoodsman, a failure at shopkeeping, but a great favorite with friends and neighbors, slowly
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822200017
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
THE STORY: The play shows in a series of scenes the critical years of Lincoln's early manhood up to the moment of his election as president. We see the backwoodsman, a failure at shopkeeping, but a great favorite with friends and neighbors, slowly
How I Learned to Drive
Author: Paula Vogel
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822216230
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Chronicles the relationship between Li'l Bit and Uncle Peck through a series of flashbacks as it progresses from friendship to something darker during a series of driving lessons.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822216230
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Chronicles the relationship between Li'l Bit and Uncle Peck through a series of flashbacks as it progresses from friendship to something darker during a series of driving lessons.
Etta Jenks
Author: Marlane Meyer
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822219101
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
THE STORY: Language and metaphor play a large part in bringing to life the darkly comic story of ETTA JENKS, a cautionary tale of a young woman's journey to Hollywood. Etta arrives in Tinseltown like millions before her with the dream of becoming a
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822219101
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
THE STORY: Language and metaphor play a large part in bringing to life the darkly comic story of ETTA JENKS, a cautionary tale of a young woman's journey to Hollywood. Etta arrives in Tinseltown like millions before her with the dream of becoming a
Private Jokes, Public Places
Author: Oren Safdie
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822220015
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
THE STORY: Capturing the full character of architectural discourse, PRIVATE JOKES, PUBLIC PLACES offers a disturbing and humorous glimpse inside the contemporary world of architecture. Margaret, a young Korean-American student, presents her thesis
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822220015
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
THE STORY: Capturing the full character of architectural discourse, PRIVATE JOKES, PUBLIC PLACES offers a disturbing and humorous glimpse inside the contemporary world of architecture. Margaret, a young Korean-American student, presents her thesis
The People Next Door
Author: James Pinckney Miller
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822208846
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
THE STORY: As The New York Times comments: Mr. Miller's drama involves two middle-class families that outwardly symbolize the tranquillity of stable suburbia. But behind the green shutters and the contentment of sustained affluence lies the latent
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822208846
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
THE STORY: As The New York Times comments: Mr. Miller's drama involves two middle-class families that outwardly symbolize the tranquillity of stable suburbia. But behind the green shutters and the contentment of sustained affluence lies the latent
Box, and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
Author: Edward Albee
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822201397
Category : One-act plays
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
THE STORY: Provocative and challenging theatre by one of our most important playwrights, in which traditional dramatic structure is replaced by an abstract, contrapuntal form of striking effectiveness.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822201397
Category : One-act plays
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
THE STORY: Provocative and challenging theatre by one of our most important playwrights, in which traditional dramatic structure is replaced by an abstract, contrapuntal form of striking effectiveness.