Tikkabik

The kids were in a play on Saturday at the local library, and here are the pictures to prove it.

It was called "The Great Kapok Tree," based on Lynne Cherry's illustrated children's book, an ecological fable about the dangers of cutting down the rain forest. "How many of these parents are gonna take their kids to McDonald's right after this?" I asked the woman sitting next to me.

Robert and Emme both had two parts: Robert was the head of a boa constrictor and a tree porcupine, and Emme was a cock o' the rock and a jaguar (both of them are supposed to be pleading with a sleeping lumberjack who's come to cut down their tree, in the pictures you see on Flickr). It was the culmination of a drama workshop both the kids have been involved with for the past month and a half or so, mainly the efforts of a volunteer working with the library. Bonnie put together the costumes.