A very cute children's play inspired by the Portuguese folk tale "A História da Carochinha"
and adapted by the award-winning Portuguese author Dulce Rodrigues
Little Ladybird is a very nice and pretty maiden who feels very sad because she lives alone. She has no charming husband with whom to share the joys of life.
Facebook has not yet been invented, and our Little Ladybird is too poor to have a social life and meet a husband.
But one day, when sweeping the kitchen, she finds a gold coin. She is rich! Time has come for her to seek a husband!
Alas, after too much choice she picks the wrong husband...
Illustrations by Ireneu J. Oliveira
Paperback | colour | 21 x 21 cm | 36 pages | ISBN 9781728393308
Price $12.90 | £8.95 | €12,25
Reader's Age: 6-7-8-9 yrs old (Second and Third graders and above) Publisher UK:Authorhouse UK Publisher US:Authorhouse US Categries:Children's Books > Litterature and Fiction > Fairy Tales > Folk Tales > Young Readers #ChildrenBooks #KindleBooks #Animals #WorldLegends #FarmAnimals #StoryTelling #FolkTales #PlaysForChildren #Adventure&Action #Barry4Kids
Worksheets on this cute kids’ play are available to teachers, parents and children at the educational website Barry4kids.
About the Author
Award-winning author Dulce Rodrigues is the happy grandmother of two lovely little girls. She has authored eighteen children’s books published in several languages (including Chinese), two travelogues, and a novel.
She also has contributions in international anthologies, and writes regularly on the web. She speaks six living languages and translates most of her own books.
Born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal, Dulce Rodrigues received a scholarship to study at the Goethe-Institut in Germany, and one for a scientific course with the Open University in the UK, and wound up living in many different countries around Europe.
Now retired after a career that included working for NATO and as a translator for the U.S. Military, she currently lives a little everywhere in Europe.
She was awarded a few literary prizes : while the Honourable Mention awarded at the 2013 Hollywood Book Festival
came from the US, eight other prizes came from Europe, including Honourable Mention at the 2013 London Book Festival.
A few of her kids' plays were performed in countries in Europe. After publishing her first children's book, she created the educational website www.barry4kids.net (in four languages) for children to learn with fun.
In addition to writing she enjoys travelling, gardening, photography, music, and pets. She also has a passion for History and for all forms of Art that transmit Beauty.
Dulce Rodrigues is a member of international cultural and literary associations and she collaborates regularly with Journal BomDia.eu (Luxembourg),
ACPS (Strasbourg) and Short Kid Stories (Ireland).
Please visit her at www.dulcerodrigues.info.
THE PEDAGOGICAL INTEREST OF PLAYS AS READING MATERIAL IN A CLASSROOM Little Ladybird seeks a Husband, as any of Dulce Rodrigues’s kids plays, is written not only as a reader’s entertainment, or as a source for stage performance.
It can as well be used for reading in a classroom, or for after-school programs: scripts are held by the readers; lines don’t need being memorized. The stage in this particular could be the front of a classroom; an actual stage isn’t needed.
The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures. Children love it!
The author’s own experience has shown her that children and juveniles with no deep interest in books, and who struggle with reading, gain confidence and get involved in reading as they practice and master simple theatre scripts.
With these experiences in mind, any of Dulce’s plays is aiming to help teachers and students stage it if they so wish.
Little Ladybird seeks a Husband was written to be performed by actors before an audience of children, young adults and families.
This three-act play is ideal for a cast of ten to twenty children with language and memory skills or for a mix of adults and children, for fun and entertaining.
It is appropriate to be performed by children aged 8 to 12.
Performance rights: 20 EUR (Schools and amateur groups. Professionals, please contact the author)
Performance (in Portuguese language) by a group of teenagers of the Portuguese Cultural Centre of Esch/Alzette, in Luxembourg.
Following performance on June 14, 2008 also in Esch/Alzette for school children and teachers.
Performance (in French language) by a group of children of the high school at Tismana, Romania.
Other performances, namely at the end of the school year and on August 15, 2006 at Svinita,
a small town in the southern part of the country, on the shores of the Danube, during the Festival of the Fig.
