This thoughtful musical adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s 2016 book, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, is a homage to reading, stories and imaginative play.
Charlie (Pierre Hanson-Johnson)story and with their sparky Mum (Georgie Samuels) they play a whole series of book-inspired, make-believe games, including pirates, ghosts, birds, bears, dragons and more. Puppets pop out of books and there’s a gorgeous full-sized crocodile who eats books and then pops apart so we can see all the titles inside him like a washing line. He also, almost literally, swallows an encyclopaedia.
