 For 1974–79, Adventure Theatre expanded programming by partnering with the Junior League to create The Picture Book Players, a performance troupe for pre-school and early elementary-aged children.Adventure Theatre also began offering its first theater-education classes and created a puppet division, now The Puppet Co., another resident of Glen Echo Park.In 1986 New Plays Books published "Six Adventure Theatre Plays", which were distributed to bookstores and children’s theaters around the country.