Stories, plays and textbooks
Allen wrote for children, school stages and classrooms. His work is gathered here in one place.
Chinese Chimes stories
The characters in these stories are named after the musical scale: Doh, Ray, Mee, Fah, Soh, Lah, Tee, Doh, with an added Hi-Doh and Low-Doh. Here are four of Allen's stories for young readers. Each story contains an important moral, and the name of the Little Chime sometimes highlights it. A teacher or parent can read the eBook online, or watch and listen to the audiobook.
Funny Fah Learns When to Stop
A Chinese Chimes story about knowing when to stop.
Imaginative Little Mee
A Chinese Chimes story about imagination and listening.
Hi-Doh
A Chinese Chimes story about learning to listen to others.
Little Ray
A Chinese Chimes story about anger, friendship and making amends.
Doh, Soh, Lah and Tee are still to come.
School plays
Allen wrote these five plays in the 1980s for primary-school end-of-year productions. Each script comes as a PDF.
Melting Pot
A play about inter-racial acceptance.
A$1 script, 47 pages
The Other Man's Grass
An emotional play on intolerance, disability and bullying.
A$1 script, 27 pages
Tribute to Calamity Jane
A humorous wild-west school play.
A$1 script, 21 pages
Three Heroes of Sherwood
A Robin Hood adventure for the stage.
A$1 script, 26 pages
Breakout
A caper play for young performers.
A$1 script, 26 pages
Read the first pages of any play online before buying it. Every play is an A$1 download. Online checkout coming soon. After it opens, Allen will email the PDF to the address used for payment.
Classroom textbooks
These books come from Allen’s twenty-five years of teaching. They were published for use in schools.
Practice in Communication, Book 1
Classroom communication activities.
Practice in Communication, Book 2
Classroom communication activities.
Riddled with Language
Practical exercises in language skills.
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