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The Complete Book of Marionettes
Mabel And Les Beaton
Paperback - $18.95
Absorbing, entertaining guide provides all the information needed to construct puppets and puppet theaters, including valuable advice on making heads, bodies, wigs, and puppet clothing, manipulating the puppet, setting up and furnishing a stage, ligh ...
Inside the Drama-House : Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India
Stuart Blackburn
Paperback - $59.95
Stuart Blackburn takes the reader inside a little-known form of shadow puppetry in this captivating work about performing the Tamil version of the Ramayana epic. Blackburn describes the skill and physical stamina of the puppeteers in Kerala state in ...
Puppetry : A World History
Eileen Blumenthal
Hardcover - $99.95
Puppets have existed in one form or another in nearly every culture throughout human history. From the intriguing shadow puppets of Java to the romantically challenged Miss Piggy, from African carved-wood actors with outsize genitalia to merry maniac ...
Stop-Motion Armature Machining : A Construction Manual
Tom Brierton
Paperback - $107.95
Stop-motion puppet animation is one of the most unusual and demanding art forms in the world. It uses a variety of skills, including design, sculpting, metal work, mold making and casting, taxidermy, filmmaking, storytelling and acting, and can be se ...
Making Shadow Puppets
Jill Bryant
Paperback - $11.95
Now kids can discover the secret to creating traditional shadow puppets based on designs from around the world. With instructions for nine beautifully crafted and decorated wooden rod puppets, portable screen setups, scenery, and script ideas, this b ...
101 Hand Puppets : A Beginner's Guide to Puppeteering
Richard Cummings
Paperback - $14.95
Simple, step-by-step instructions for creating every kind of puppet imaginable--from such simple handkerchief varieties for beginners as Spook-a-boo the Ghost, to special puppets such as a Box of Demons for advanced performers wanting to expand their ...
Making and Manipulating Marionettes
David Currell
Hardcover - $84.95
"Making and Manipulating Marionettes" is a superb guide to a craft and performance art that has fascinated audiences for over 2,000 years. Handsomely illustrated throughout, it presents precise instructions for the making of marionettes, both for pla ...
Making Puppets Come Alive : How to Learn and Teach Hand Puppetry
Larry Engler
Paperback - $18.95
Lucid, easy-to-follow guide covers voice use and synchronization, stage deportment and interactions, improvisation, staging, lighting, much more.
Puppet Planet
John E. Kennedy
Paperback - $27.95
Kennedy, a Jim Henson Muppeteer, gives kids the know-how they need to turn 12new puppet projects into characters by sharing his tips on lip synching, bodymovements, eye contact and movement, and, most important, imagination.