Puppetry Books and Resources

Puppets and Puppet Making

Make Your Own Performing Puppets Teddy Cameron Long Reading level: Ages 9-12	Plenty of Puppets To Make Robin Supraner Reading level: Ages 9-12
Worlds Of Shadow: Teaching With Shadow Puppets David and Donna Wisniewski	Simple Puppets From everyday Materials Barbara MacDonald Buetter and Nancy Buetter
Puppet Ministry Magic Dale and Liz Vonsegger	Puppets Methods and Materials Cedric Fortney
Making Puppets Come Alive: How To Learn and Teach Hand Puppetry Larry Engler	You Can Do Christian Puppets: A Beginner's Guide Bea Carlbon

Shadow Puppets

Fun With Hand Shadows: Step By Step Instructions For More Than 70 Shadow Puppets Sati Achaith and Bala Chandran	Hand Shadows And More Hand Shadows Henry Bursill Reading level: Ages 4-8
Inside The Drama House: Rama Stories Shadow Puppets Stuart H. Blackburn	FunWith Hand Shadows Frank Jacobs and Henry Bursill
Shadow Games: A Book Of Hand And Puppet Shadows Bill Mayer Peter Foy Reading level: Ages 9-12

Marionette

Marionettes: How to Make And Use Them
Helen Fling
Card catalog description
Instructions for constructing and costuming marionettes, stringing them for one or two hand control, manipulating them, and staging a show

Marionettes And String Puppets
Daniel E. Hodges

Hand

Hand Puppets How to Make and Use Them
Laura Ross
Card catalog description
Directions and diagrams for making various types of puppets, dressing and handling them, setting up a stage, and writing and producing one's own show. Includes three puppet plays.

Create your Own Hand Puppets
Diane Fisher
Reading level: Ages 4-8

Rod

The Muppets Make Puppets Cheryl Henson Reading level: Ages 4-8	A kit from the artists of the Muppet Workshop includes instructions and all the materials needed to turn household objects into a variety of imaginative puppets, such as googly eyes, feathers, and silly noses.
Jim Henson: The Works: The Art, The Magic, The Imagination Christopher Finch A tribute to the creativity of the late Jim Henson presents more than five hundred full-color photographs, drawings, and behind-the-scenes designs of the Muppets, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, and other works.
Jim Henson: Muppet Master Nathan Aaseng Reading level: Ages 9-12 Card catalog description Recounts how Jim Henson brought to life the Muppets and how he made other advances in the world of puppetry.

Ventriloquist

Perky Puppets With A Purpose; a Complete Guide to Puppetry and Ventriloquism in Christian Ministry Mary Rose Pearson	I Can See Your Lips Moving: The Art and History of Ventriloquism Valentin Vox
Ventriloquism Made Easy Kolby King	Ventriloquism In A Nutshell Detweiler
How To Become a Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen

History And Traditions

A History of European Puppetry: From It's Origins Till The End of the Nineteenth Century Henryk Jurkowski and Penny Francis
Popular Puppet Theatre In Europe: A History 1800-1914 John McCormack and Bennie Pratasik	Karagiozis: Culture and Comedy in Greek Puppet Theatre Puppetry Library George Miller

Plays

Puppet Shows Made Easy: (Puppetry In Education Series) Nancy Renfro	Multicultural Folktales: Stories To Tell Young Children Judy Sierra Reading level: Ages 4-8
Puppet Plays Plus: Hand Puppet Plays for 2 Puppeteers Phyllis Noe Pflomm	Storytelling With Puppets Connie Champlin
Playwriting for The Puppet Theatre Jean Mattson	Fantastic Theatre: Puppets And Plays For Young Performers and Young Audiences Judy Sierra
Storytelling Adventures: Stories Kids Can Tell Vivian Dubrovin	Create Your Own Storytelling Stories Vivian Dubrovin
Storytelling for The Fun Of It: A Handbook For Children Vivian Dubrovin

Stages

Puppets and Masks: Stagecraft And Storytelling by Nan Rump

Stories

Walt Disney's Pinocchio

Adventures Of Pinocchio by Sue Kassuer

R.L.Strine (9-12) Goosebumps

Night Of The Living Dummy

Night of The Living Dummy II

Night Of the Living Dummy III

Bride of The Living Dummy

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