Kate Greenaway Medal: 1957 to 2005". Curriculum Lab (CCSU Burritt Library). Central Connecticut State University. Archived from the original on 16 September 2014 . Retrieved 23 July 2012. The owners of the houses remain unseen in this story, as do the police. But the storytellers do something interesting with police: rather than omit them entirely, they suggest nearby police. First with the proximity of the police station, next with the baby who wails like a police siren.

Adapt a PE or sports kit, or their school uniform - think Football Academy for sports kit, Harry Potter and St Trinian's for the uniform. Being my school's librarian, I now get to sort through books we get and idly skim through them when I've got a moment. Obviously, I'm not the target demographic for children's picture books. Below, Francis Spuffords describes, among other things, how Burglar Bill appeals to adults as much as to children:Get the face paints out. Book characters can easily come to life with cute painted faces. Think The Tiger Who Came to Tea or the Cheshire Cat. As an alternative, ask the person who collected the objects to ‘steal’ one of them. Which one did they steal? In 1994 Tina set up the Education Department at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford, which ran until 2008. As well as directing several co-productions with the Yvonne Arnaud she wrote and directed ‘Flash! Bang! Rabbit! for the youth theatre as a creative and cultural exchange with the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff. Thinking about now and the past, look through the illustrations in the book to identify objects in Burglar Bill’s house, that show he lived decades ago - the old Singer sewing machine, the aspidistra in a china chamber pot, the fox fur...

Be sure to examine the pictures in this one as there are plenty of visual gags. I love that Burglar Bill hangs a mugshot of himself on the wall.Following the success of Pied Piper Theatre’s Burglar Billlast year, this new two hander for very young children follows a similar format. There is little dialogue in Hare and Tortoise, lots of physicality and gentle joking, a neat narrative shape and some catchy songs. And it all sits very happily in the Yvonne Arnaud’s child-friendly studio space. Tina has written, adapted, directed and produced over twenty five plays for the company including a large scale national tour of Anne Fine's "The Book of the Banshee", and "A Little Princess" involving eight actors and eight young people.