TEHRAN-A children’s puppet show titled “No, No, No Cookies” is on stage at the Boustan Hall of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (known as Kanoon) in Tehran.

Written by Elmira Parsa and directed by Pouya Sheshpari, it is based on the children’s book “A Very Strange Creature” by Ronda Armitage, IRNA reported.

The story is about Monkey who finds a strange creature in the jungle. Puzzled, he calls the other animals to help. It doesn't have a tail for swinging, a trunk for washing, a long neck for reaching the high trees, or even webbed feet for swimming. Whatever could it be?

Armitage, 81, is a children’s writer born in Kaikoura, New Zealand. She worked as a teacher and is a trained counselor, but is best known for her many children's books, including the “Lighthouse Keeper” series.

She moved to England in 1974 with her husband and two children. Her husband David Armitage has illustrated many of her books.

She has written more than 30 fiction and non-fiction books for children in over 40 years. Armitage's first book (and the first in the “Lighthouse Keeper” series), “The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch” won the 1978 Esther Glen Award from the Library and Information Association of New Zealand. The title was also named in the booklist for Fifty Favorite Books From The Last Fifty Years by The Federation of Children’s Book Groups. In 2013, she won the Coventry Inspiration Book Award for “A Very Strange Creature”.

The play will remain on stage until May 20.

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