early years
programme
MAGIC JOURNEY
We take your students on a magic journey in to the world of books, consisting of theatrical presentations of popular stories and poems. We motivate students to participate in the performance- they become some of the characters and act our the stories. This unique ‘Bookworm’ approach has been widely praised by teachers across Australia since 1978.
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Our stories are carefully selected to ensure we bring vibrancy and theatricality to your students’ learning. You can expect your students to be enlivened, entertained, engaged and educated by their experience, and will leave the performance motivated to build on that experience.
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Each performance goes for approximately 50 minutes and contains three stories which are selected by... YOU! By choosing the stories from our programme that suit you best, you can ensure that your students get the most out of the experience. Our story selection changes each year and include poetry, fairytales and world stories. You can find our 2023 story choices below.
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For our junior audiences, we understand that sometimes a live storytelling show in your classroom may be a little overwhelming for some students. Our actors are aware of the needs of the audience and will adjust a performance to accommodate those needs.
“Brilliant! So much fun and the kids were totally engaged for the whole show. Loved it!"
- Jess Inglis, Kerang.
opening stories: (choose one)
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A Classic poem about a nonsense.
Lewis Carols fantastic story about 'frumious bandersnatch's' and 'jubjub birds' bursts to life in this exciting and delightly adaptation of a story that makes no sense on purpose.
A wonderful look at words and language and they ways we give them meaning.
All our lovely narrator wants is a little pet rabbit, but everywhere they turn all they find are funny characters and silly salesmen who are trying to get them to buy everything else!
A.A Milne's wonderful poem about looking for the right thing in all the wrong places is a fantastic look at resilience and positive thinking.
Not too hot, not too cold, this story is just right.
This highly requested, beloved story about figuring things out returns to Bookwormland! See Goldilocks and the 3 Bears bring fun (and porridge) to the stage in this classic fairy tale.
main stories: (choose two)
Our Farmer has an empty space in his garden, what could he plant there?
How about a sprinkle of fun, a handful of silly and a giant scoop of mayhem!
It all adds up to a great big enourmous problem! A classic tale about teamwork.
Join Hans and Helga as they tell the famous much loved tale, that has become our most popular story ever! Three great goats and one tricky troll, make for a fantastic lesson in friendship, problem solving and the downside of greediness. Our troll may seem grumpy, but he’s really very silly and great fun.
The goats may come in small, medium and big, but the fun only comes in extra large in this marvellous misadventure.
Run, run as fast as you can! Get ready for fun, it's the Gingerbread Man!
The little old man and the little old lady just want a snack! But the Gingerbread man wants to go on an adventure instead. Hopefully they don't run into any sneaky fox's along the way...
This lovely little duck is just looking to make friends. But the other animals are all being not very nice.
It seems they don't like that the duckling looks different. But what's so bad about looking different?
This timeless fairy tale that shows all the ways in which being yourself is the best thing you can be makes it's long awaited Flying Bookworm debut
Poor Jack. Things have been tough for him lately, and now he has to sell his best friend Milky the cow at market! But a little bit of magic and big sense of adventure lead him to a magical, gigantic, wonderous place filled with things he can barely believe...