Irene N. Watts

At the end of World War II in 1945, fourteen-year-old Sophie, a German Jew who has lived with a guardian in London for seven years, wonders what will happen when she is reunited with her parents and she tells them that she wants to stay in England.

The play opens on 15 November 1938, six days after the launching of the government planned and sponsored anti-Semitic program called Kristallnacht?the Night of Broken Glass. It is the day that German State schools closed their doors permanently to Jewish students. Young Marianne's world crumbles; hostility surrounds her every step. Her father is in hiding from the Gestapo and her mother surrounds her with over-protectiveness. Then, Marianne meets Ernest, a boy staying in her apartment building while on holiday in Berlin. They have a lot in common, but then Ernest discovers Marianne is Jewish, and she sees him in the uniform of the Hitler Youth. "Goodbye Marianne" is documentary fiction, based on the author's own personal experiences as a child in Nazi Germany and of other Holocaust survivors. Winner of the Jessie Award for Best Children's Play.

Plans for giving eleven theme parties, including Halloween, winter, animals, and detectives, with suggestions for invitations, food, games, videos, and read-aloud books.

Louisa Gardener, the fourteen-year-old nursemaid to the young daughters of a wealthy, titled family living in London, England, in 1912, overcomes her fear of the ocean and sails with her charges to New York aboard the Titanic.

Presents simple stage adaptations, suitable for school use, of eight stories along with staging suggestions and ideas for easily obtainable sets, props, and costumes.

Collects the stories of Marianne Kohn and Sophie Mandel, following their journey from Germany on the Kindertransport to England, and their new lives there.

Secretly following his rabbi father outside the walled Jewish ghetto in 1595 Prague, Jacob watches him bring a golem to life to protect those living in the ghetto.