Ten top picture books that would make great puppet shows

Polly Dunbar is co-founder of the UK-based puppet company Long Nose News. She and Katherine Morton have adapted four picture books into stage shows.

For the Guardian, Dunbar named ten other picture books that would make great puppet shows, including:

Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr Seuss

As this is a "wish list" I can do anything without worrying about budgets, logistics or health and safety – woohoo! I would like to make this book into a fairground ride, like a ghost train but with puppets instead of ghosts or a rollercoaster. The audience would climb aboard and travel through Dr Seuss's poem meeting all the crazy characters along the way. Like life, this story goes to the most fabulous places but "sometimes you bump and you'll be in a slump". The brilliant Tom Gray writes all of the songs for our shows, I'm sure he could write some fabulous music for the "Boom Bands" to play. The ride of your life!

Read about another book on the list.

Oh, the Places You'll Go! is one of Robert Goolrick's 6 favorite books about childhood.

--Marshal Zeringue