Puppet Making (Start-A-Craft) (Start-a-craft S.)
by Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell
Puppets have a universal appeal for all ages and cultures, with a limitless scope in depiction and variety. This start-a-craft introduction to puppet-making draws on past traditions as well as introducing innovative creative methods, using readily available materials and simple techniques. The step-by-step projects are fully illustrated, and self-contained, so that a puppet can be easily made in one sitting and with no previous knowledge, by children and adults alike.
The Complete Ventriloquist - A Guide for Novices with Hints and Tips from Voice Coaching to Set Design
by Anon
Finding Your Faith with Ivan & Friends (Christian- Themed Puppet Scripts, #2)
by Karen Davies
John Kennedy offers 13 original puppet projects, along with 30 featured puppets. Each project has straightforward instructions, showing how to bring the creations to life.
Over the course of almost half a century, puppeteer Ronnie Le Drew has worked with the greats – from David Bowie in Labyrinth to Michael Caine in The Muppet Christmas Carol. But the role that defined his career was Rainbow’s Zippy, who he operated for more than twenty years.Zippy and Me is the first time a Rainbow insider has told the true story of what went on under the counter and inside the suits: the petty squabbles between performers, wrangling with TV executives, and scandals such as the '...
Introduces five types of hand and string puppets to make from easy patterns. Includes a puppet play with staging suggestions.
The History of the English Puppet Theatre, Second Edition
by George Speaight
A welcome reissue, revised and updated, of the classic work on the English puppet theatre, this detailed and lavishly illustrated book, first published in 1955, shows why puppet theatre in England developed along different lines from that on the Continent, and brings the story up to the television age.In 1938, at the age of 24, George Speaight left his job as a bookseller and went to work as a farmhand at Pigotts, the family settlement of Eric Gill and his group of artist-craftsworkers in Buckin...
Sweet Smell Of Sockcess - Putting A Show On At The Edinburgh Fringe (Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, #1)
by Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre and Kev Sutherland
Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop
by Nat Segaloff, Mallory Lewis, and David Copperfield
For almost half a century, celebrated ventriloquist and entertainer Shari Lewis delighted generations of children and adults with the help of her trusted sock puppet sidekick Lamb Chop. For decades, the beloved pair were synonymous with children's television, educating and entrancing their young audience with their symbiotic personalities and their proclivity for song, dance, and the joy of silliness. But as iconic as their television personas were, relatively little inside knowledge has been...
Hand Puppets Made Easy
by Suzanne Dubic, Suzanne Dubuc, and Henriette Major
