Centred on the adventure implicit in make-believe and performance, and aimed at fostering imaginative creativity and self-expression in children, this book provides practical instructions to putting on a mask-based performance. For the educator, it also looks at the role of performance in art education, highlighting histories of mask and performance traditions. This wonderfully accessible and practical guide will bring out the creative best in children.

 

This book is part of a book series called Craft Without Limits .

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Tara Books .

Gita Wolf, co-author of numerous handmade children's books, including In the Dark, Sophocles' Antigone and The Tree Girl, also adapted Hensparrow Turns Purple from a classic Indian folktale. Anushka Ravishankar is a mathematics graduate who has made a name for herself internationally as an Indian children's writer, with over ten books of verse, fiction and non-fiction. She can be said to have pioneered the Indian English nonsense verse form and brought it to international attention. Christiane Pieper is a German illustrator for whose art delights in drama, movement and whimsical expressions.