Making Puppets Come Alive

Author: Larry Engler
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486152537
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Unlike other performing arts, puppetry is perhaps the only art form in which directing, acting, writing, designing, sculpture, and choreography are combined. In effect, the performer is creating an artistic entertainment that will appeal to audiences of all ages — in homes, in theaters, and in classrooms. This lucid, easy-to-follow book was specifically conceived to teach beginners how to bring a hand puppet to life and how, with practice, to develop the skills needed to mount an amateur puppet show — complete with staging, costumes, and special effects. Award-winning puppeteers Larry Engler and Carol Fijan provide ingenious finger, wrist, and arm exercises that are crucial for creating a full working range of puppet motions and emotions. They also cover the elements of good puppet theatrical technique: speech, voice use, and synchronization; stage deportment and interactions; improvisation, dramatic conflict, role characterization, and more. Every detail is clearly explained and beautifully illustrated with photographs, specific chapters being devoted to the use of props, puppet voices and movements, the construction of simple stages and lighting effects, and much more. A splendid addition to the literature on this subject, Making Puppets Come Alive is "the best book on hand puppetry we've seen." — The Whole Kids Catalog.

Making Puppets Come Alive

Author: Larry Engler
Publisher: Taplinger Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
Describes techniques for animating hand puppets and staging an amateur puppet show.

Hand Puppets

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hand puppets
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book 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.

The Motion of Puppets

Author: Keith Donohue
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250057213
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
From the bestselling author of The Boy Who Drew Monsters and The Stolen Child comes a modern take on the Orpheus and Eurydice Myth—A Suspenseful tale of romance and enchantment In the Old City of Québec, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop that is never open. She is spending her summer working as an acrobat with the cirque while her husband, Theo, is translating a biography of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Late one night, Kay fears someone is following her home. Surprised to see that the lights of the toy shop are on and the door is open, she takes shelter inside. The next morning Theo wakes up to discover his wife is missing. Under police suspicion and frantic at her disappearance, he obsessively searches the streets of the Old City. Meanwhile, Kay has been transformed into a puppet, and is now a prisoner of the back room of the Quatre Mains, trapped with an odd assemblage of puppets from all over the world who can only come alive between the hours of midnight and dawn. The only way she can return to the human world is if Theo can find her and recognize her in her new form. So begins the dual odyssey of Keith Donohue’s The Motion of Puppets: of a husband determined to find his wife, and of a woman trapped in a magical world where her life is not her own.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1406

Book Description

Storytelling with Puppets

Author: Connie Champlin
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838907092
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
In this latest revision of Storytelling With Puppets, Connie Champlin has polished themes and fine-tuned sections to meet today's ever-changing programming environment, paying special attention to literature-based instruction and multicultural themes.

A Show of Hands

Author: Ingrid M. Crepeau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
A Show of Hands: Using Puppets with Young Children.

Make Your Own Movie Machine

Author: Rob Ives
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486779793
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Discover the magic of animation with this complete guide to creating a device that offers the illusion of motion from a series of individual pictures. Includes well-illustrated instructions for assembling the viewer and making custom animation strips.

101 Hand Puppets

Author: Richard Cummings
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486423159
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Provides instructions for making and using instant puppets, rainy day puppets, professional puppets, special puppets, and novelty puppets.

Puppetry in Education and Therapy

Author: Edited by Matthew Bernier and Judith O'Hare
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452057494
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
In Puppetry in Education and Therapy: Unlocking Doors to the Mind and Heart, one finds enormous variety, ingenuity, and creativity in the types of puppets, and the ways they are used in education and in therapy. Puppeteers, therapists, and educators, articulate what is meant by “puppetry in education” and “puppet therapy” and how it is the same or different from “puppet theatre”. They describe the unique characteristics and theory of puppetry in education and therapy, the skills it takes to be successful in these areas, the skills that are passed on to people who use puppets for personal expression, and how to assess the impact of puppets on learning or behavior change. Twenty-six authors discuss topics such as puppetry and the multiple intelligences; the process versus the product; using puppetry in schools to promote literacy, preserve cultural heritage, and teach music; how puppetry contributes to Core Curriculum Standards, the theoretical underpinnings of therapeutic puppetry, and a range of ways of facilitating growth and development. If you’re already using puppets, this book will inspire you to understand your work differently and to explore new possibilities. If you’re a teacher or a therapist and you’ve never used puppets before, it will open a whole world of possibilities. This book illustrates that puppetry arts can affect learning and behavior and that puppets indeed have the power to unlock doors to the mind and heart.