Practical Puppetry A-Z: A Guide for Librarians and Teachers

Puppetry is an exciting, flexible, malleable art form that can engage the creative forces of children or adults. Puppets can not only tell a story, they can be used to enhance the curriculum, present an idea or a concept in a compelling way, or teach any number of necessary skills. Children and adults presenting a puppet play are given a sense of their own inventive power. This reference work offers an A to Z view of working with puppets. It covers everything from the basic strategies of advertising and marketing puppet productions, to assembling the puppets out of household materials such as paper bags, cereal boxes, or gloves, to the more elaborate sculpting of armatures. Stages, curtains and props are also discussed along with the history of puppetry. Numerous illustrations give a visual of many of the finished products. This work concludes with an annotated bibliography and index.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Acknowledgment      Preface      African Puppetry      American Indian Puppetry      Apron Stages      Armatures      Assistants      Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts      Audiences      Bag Puppets      Beaks      Beginners      Body Puppets      Bottle Heads and Puppets      Box Stages      Brush Puppets      Bunraku      Business of Puppetry      Cardboard Boxes      Cardboard Tube Sliding-Mouth Puppets      Cereal Box Puppets      Characters      Chinese Bag Puppet Theaters      Clothespin Puppets      Clubs      Comedy      Concept Puppets      Costumes      Courses      Craft Clays      Curtains      Dioramas      Directing Puppet Plays      Disabilities      Doorway Stages      Ears      Educational Puppetry      Egg Carton Puppets      Eyes      Festivals      Finger Puppet Theaters      Finger Puppets      Fist Puppets      Flannel Boards      Foam Rubber Puppets      Focus      Giant Puppets      Glove Puppets      Glue Gun Techniques      Grants and Internships      Greeting Card Theaters      Guignol      Hair and Wigs      Hamburger Box Puppets      Hand Puppets      Hands      Hands as Puppets      Hanging Stages      Hanging Toy Theaters      Hinges      History of Puppetry      India and Puppetry      Internet Links      Islamic Puppetry      Jumping Jacks      Junk Puppets      Karagoz      Life-Sized Puppets      Lighting      Limberjacks      Marionettes      Mask Puppets with Movable Mouths      Masks      Mime      Mouth Puppets      Mouths      Music      National Day of Puppetry      National Puppetry Conference      National Puppetry Festival      Noses      Object Theater      Paper Bag Theaters      Papier-Mâché      Peep Shows      Philosophy of Puppetry      Polymer and Air-Hardening Clays      Ponytail Holder Movable Mouths      Pop-Up Puppets      Practice      Preschoolers' Puppets      Props      Punch and Judy      Puppet Corners      Puppet Gloves      Puppeteers      Puppeteers of America      Puppetools      Puppets Defined      Publications      PVC Puppet Stages      Rehearsal      Rod Puppets      Scenery      Sets of Basic Puppets      Shadow Puppet Screens      Shadow Puppets      Shelf-Sitter Puppets      Shoe Box Theaters      Sock Puppets      Sound Systems      Sponge Puppets      Spring-Legged Puppets      Stages      Stereotyping      Stick Puppets      Storage      Stories and Scripts      Stuffed Animal Puppets      Styrofoam Puppet Heads      Table Top Stages      Teeth      Therapy through Puppetry      Tissue-Mâché      Toy Theaters      Transformational Puppets      UNIMA and UNIMA-USA      University of Connecticut's Puppetry Arts Program      Voices      Wayang      Whirling Disk Puppet Theaters      Wooden Puppet Heads      Wooden Spoon Puppets      Wrist Puppets      Annotated Bibliography      Index     

About the Author :
Carol R. Exner is retired from Durham County Library.

Review :
“lively...an excellent resource”—Booklist; “well-written articles”—School Library Journal; “useful”—ARBA; “recommended”—The Australian Library Journal.