Charlotte Chorpenning once said: “Fairy tales are the voices of long ago and far away, calling to the aspirations of today” ( Maes). All cultures and countries are rich with stories of magic, mystery and adventure; Chorpenning has taken these rich stories and brought them to life for children. Passionate about children and teaching them, Charlotte Chorpenning was the voice and writer of the world of children's theater in the mid-20th century, writing and adapting countless children's plays. Charlotte Chorpenning's writings and adaptations of children's plays have changed the world of children's theater by nearly doubling the repertoire of children's theater while continually portraying a traditional moral message in her plays. Chorpenning's experience teaching and dealing with children helped to shape and influence his writing. Before he began writing and adapting children's plays, Chorpenning was an English teacher in Minnesota and taught there until the early twenties. It was there that she began to learn more about children and discover what they liked and what would entertain them on stage. She also directed children's plays before beginning to write them. She spent several years directing plays at the Goodman Theater. It was there that she realized that she really wanted to write plays for children. That's why, at the age of sixty, she realized her dream and started writing for children. Before Chorpenning began writing, there were very few children's plays, which is one of the reasons she was so interested in writing specifically for children. Before Chorpenning, there were only a handful of plays specifically aimed at children. At the time of her death, she had the double of the middle of paper... the other and the father at the end of the play (Martin). Chorpenning strove to ensure that people didn't just watch plays, that they got something out of the experience of seeing them, especially children. This is what led her to write and adapt so many plays over the course of her life. Charlotte Chorpenning has made her mark on the world of children's theater by almost doubling the number of plays offered to children while always sending them a positive message. Teaching children for most of his life inspired Chorpenning to write children's plays and his plays have been generally accepted by critics for the positive message they convey. Without Charlotte Chorpenning, children's theater would not be what it is today. Without his contribution to the repertoire of children's theater and his positive message, who knows where the theater world would be today ?.