early years
programme
stories alive!
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 2026 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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Ogden Nash's classic poem about a young girl and her pets burst to life on stage!
When Belinda and her cowardly pet dragon Custard discover a pirate trying to steal their treasure, it's time for Custard to finally find his courage.
The Little Red Hen has found a seed and can't wait to plant it! All they need is a little help from the other animals.
But today, no one seems to want to help!
Surely they won't have to do all of the work all by themselves without any help at all...
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)
What an exciting day! Our 3 Little Pigs are heading out on their own to build their very own houses.
Poor Mummy Pig will miss them so much! But she not worried about them. After all there's nothing to worry about, sepecially not a big, bad, wolf...
You'll huff and you'll puff and you'll laugh yourself silly.
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.
You cheeky monkeys!
That poor Cap Seller really is having a bit of a hard day. No one wants to buy his caps, he doesn't have any lunch and now those cheeky monkeys have stolen all his caps! Getting them back is certainly going to be tricky and take everything they've got.
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
The Little Red Engine just want's to get up and over the hill. But oh dear! They've run out of puff!
Can any of the other engines out there help them?
We think they can, we think they can, we think they can...