This book collects the current thinking of fourteen of the leading practitioners in the field of children in theatre. Evident throughout the book is the theme that it is the creativity of the individual teacher or leader that makes for exciting results in drama by and for young people. Included are reminiscences, philosophies, teaching hints, and ideas by such authors as Winifred Ward, Nellie McCaslin, Geraldine Brain Siks, Margaret Faulkes, Virginia Tanner, Gerald Tyler, Agnes Haaga, Ann M. Shaw, Dorothy Heathcote, Elizabeth Flory Kelly, Joanna Halpert Kraus, Grace Stanistreet, Moses Goldberg, Lowell Swortzell, and Aurand Harris. (TS)