Costumes for Plays and Playing Gail E. Haley

978-1-887905-62-6 1-887-905-62-6 $19.95 paperback 134 pages b&w illustrations index Parkway Publishers also by Gail E. Haley: My Father's Beast Mountain Jack Tales

Costumes for Plays and Playing shows readers of varying abilities and ages how to improvise believable costumes from materials at hand in the house or at school. Besides Gail Haley's own simple step-by-step instructions and illustrations, the book contains old line drawings of authentic period costumes, as well as an extensive bibliography of source material to suggest to the reader where and how to authenticate costumes to be work at a dress-up party, a school play or just for make-believe games at home. Costumes for Plays and Playing is more than a make-your-own-costumes book as it opened new vistas for imaginative activities and individual improvisation, craft skill acquisition and historic awareness. Parents and teachers will find the book particularly stimulating as a means to encourage play and dramatic acting-out which can awaken a child's curiosity about how people of the past must have looked and felt inside their clothes. about the author Gail Haley is an author, award-winning illustrator, puppeteer, and storyteller. She won a Caldecott Medal for A Story, A Story in 1971 and the Kate Greenway Medal for The Post Office Cat