Peace at Last (A Bear Family Book, 1)

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Sophia Lovell Smith studied Theatre Arts at Bretton Hall. She is a designer for theatre, opera, dance and interactive performance for children. Sophia has just designed SALT (Lighthouse, Poole & Angel Exit), The Worst Princess (Full House Theatre) and Little Angel Theatre (The Bed). In 2022 Sophia created Chasing Dots (MishMash Prods & RNS, Sage/The Glasshouse, Gateshead), Catch A Sea Star (Seaglass Arts) Handa’s Surprise (Little Angel Theatre) and Jina and the STEM Sisters (HMDT) and London Rhymes, a band making music for toddlers. Mr Bear eats a sandwich in the middle of the night. Write a set of instructions to teach someone how to make their own delicious sandwich. Teach your little ones all about this popular children's book with our range of Peace At Last activities and resources. Use role-play props and masks to bring this book to life. Your kids can have fun during class and at play, pretending to be Mr or Mrs Bear and making up their own noises. Between 2016 and 2018 she crafted new dramaturgies and libretti for three award winning and award nominated opera adaptations for The King's Head Theatre - La bohéme (Olivier Award nominated) Tosca (Off West End Award winner), and La Traviata (Off West End Award nominated). The moon is shown in a number of illustrations. Use a book about space to find out about the moon and how it affects us here on Earth.

Watch this video which retells the story. Could you record your own voice reading the story with lots of expression? Peace At Last' is all about a night where poor old Mr Bear just can't get to sleep! All through the night, we hear about the different noises and distractions that keep Mr Bear awake.Rewrite the story from the point of view of Mr Bear. How was he feeling at each point in the story?

Design a machine that might help Mr Bear sleep. You could use this example from Wallace and Gromit to give you some ideas:

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Will is a professional Lighting Designer and has lit internationally and in London's West End. Will also works extensively as an educator, teaching Lighting Design at institutes such as Rose Bruford, Guildford School of Acting and University of Winchester. Recent lighting design credits include: ‘Beryl’ (Oldham Coliseum), ‘Romeo & Juliet’ (CBeebies Presents, BBC Television), 'Wave Me Goodbye' (Theatr Clwyd, Mold), 'Estron' (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru), 'Gabriel' (UK Tour, Theatre6), 'Bear and Butterfly, 'Lullabub' and 'Luna' (Theatre Hullabaloo, Darlington) ‘Why The Whales Came’ (Watford Palace/Wizard Presents), ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’, ‘As you Like It’, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, ‘Merry Wives of Windsor’ and ‘Comedy of Errors’ (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Chester), ‘I Believe in Unicorns’ (Wizard Presents, West End and Tour), ‘The Canterbury Tales’ (Guildford Shakespeare Company), ‘Moomin Summer Madness’ and ‘How to hide a Lion’ (Polka Theatre) ‘Hard Feelings’ (Finborough Theatre), ‘Mudlarks’ and ’66 Books’ (Bush Theatre, London), ‘Cinderella’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Aladdin’ (Hertford Theatre), ‘Dream Space’ (Shakespeare’s Globe) Jill Murphy wrote and published 'Peace At Last' in 1980 - it was her first book. You might know Jill Murphy as the author of the super popular "The Worst Witch" series. Use the speech to rewrite the story in the form of a play script.?Can you act out the story with some friends? Mrs. Bear began to snore. \"SNORE,\" went Mrs. Bear. \"SNORE, SNORE, SNORE.\" \"Oh, NO!\" said Mr. Bear, \"I can't stand THIS.\" So he got up and went to sleep in Baby Bear's room. Recent productions include 5 years with Spitalfields Music designing for the Musical Rumpus Programme, Maanika & the Wolf (Polka Theatre), The Bed for LAT (Offies 2020 finalist), My Mother Said I Never Should for Crucible, Sheffield Theatres & fingersmiths and Paper Aeroplane for Half Moon Theatre (Offies 2021 finalist).