This simple, kid-friendly guide to staging a dramatic performance, begins with basic information, outlining and defining different elements that help bring dramatics to life, such as backdrops, props, and set pieces.  It offers suggestions for finding, buying, or making what you need. It provides a complete list of the tools and materials needed for the projects in the book, and then it provides step-by-step directions with ideas for spin-off variations.  Lots of reminders about safety and supervision are included.  The projects included are ones with which the target audience should be able to find success.  Index, glossary, and table of contents are included.