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Charlie Cook's Favourite Book: 1

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Based on the original book Charlie Cook Favourite Book – written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Julia Donaldson has written some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which together have sold over 25 million copies worldwide and have been translated into over one hundred languages. There are eleven different books in this story, and my first idea was to have eleven different illustrators – one for each book-within-a-book!

Charlie Cook's Favourite Book is both entertaining and original - a sure-fire winner from the unparalleled picture-book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo. There are rows with chairs and soft blocks facing the stage, and some mats on the floor at the front. The only difficult bit is the fact that the images contain text such as a leaflet or news paper article so it had to be explained that it wasn't part of the story. Charlie Cook is reading a book about a pirate captain, who is reading a book about Goldilocks, who is reading about a knight, who is reading about a frog.This was the last book In the Julia Donaldson series I brought my grandson , they love them and are so well illustrated … as is this one . There is nothing really scary in these shows but they can be a bit more dramatic than those for the youngest children, including in their use of sound and lighting, and characters may face some perils. Her other books include The Hospital Dog illustrated by Sara Ogilvie, The Christmas Pine illustrated by Victoria Sandøy and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures illustrated by Lydia Monks.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.The show features a dragon puppet who roars loudly and quite a big crocodile puppet, but these are both friendly characters.

A show aimed at two-year olds would have some differences – those shows are carefully made to hold their attention for the duration, and not to be unsettling for them. The audience stay in their seats while watching, but you can leave and re-enter the auditorium at any time. I wanted all the books to look very different - in different styles - but in the end there wasn't enough time to work that out (may be I would have failed anyway).They have brought many of my books to life on stage, and they do so creatively whilst remaining faithful to the books. Charlie Cook is reading a book about a pirate captain, who is reading a book about Goldilocks, who is reading about a knight, who is reading about a frog . Further books illustrated by Axel include Room on the Broom, Stick Man, Zog and The Smeds and the Smoos – all of which have been made into much-loved animated films by Magic Light Pictures. She was the UK Children’s Laureate 2011–13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature.

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