Puppets category: 54 books
by C. S. Forester
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Inspired by a marionette show he saw, C.S. Forester, a novelist and theatre lover, decided to create his own puppet theatre at home. In Marionettes at Home, first published in 1936, he shares his experience and enthusiasm for amateur puppeteering and takes the reader step-by-step through the stages...
by Jack Maisel
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
It is slower than slap-stick, making punch-lines all the more important. Unlike regular stand-up comedy, ventriloquism has, over the ages, earned a bad name of being repetitive and old. The tougher thing about ventriloquism is not the throwing your voice part, but it's about coming up with the best...
Story-gami Kit Ebook
Create Origami Using Folding Stories: Origami Book with 18 Fun Projects and Downloadable Video Instructions
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
Act out cute stories while you fold origami projects with this unique and easy origami kit.
The joy in folding origami is often found in the deceptively simple magic of transforming a single piece of paper into a recognizable object. All too often, the steps it takes to transform paper into...
by Mabel and Les Beaton
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
"Highly recommended." — Library JournalMarionettes, those beguiling, animated little actors on strings, have endeared themselves to puppet show lovers for generations. Constructed to approximate most nearly the movement and appearance of humans and animals, the jointed figures appear today in a...
Scrap Republic
8 Quilt Projects for Those Who LOVE Color
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
You can shop until you drop with this sturdy tote featuring a lovely detail of Pivot in Prints, a quilt designed by Emily Cier, featured in her book, Scrap Republic. Roomy and beautiful, your tote holds everything you need for quilt class, grocery shopping, or even the gym. Everything inside will...
Cloth Doll Workshop: From the Beginning and Beyond with Doll Masters elinor peace bailey, Patti Medaris Culea, and Barbar
From the Beginning and Beyond with Doll Masters elinor peace bailey, Patti Medaris Culea, and Barbar
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Patti Culea, elinor peace bailey, and Barbara Willis are three of the leading doll artists and teachers in the country. They are also friends. Each of these artists has her own distinct approach to the design and development of a cloth figure. In this book, each artist's process will come alive through...
Mini-Mosaic Quilts
30+ Block Designs - 14 Projects - Easy Piecing Technique
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Celebrate the decorative intricacy of tiled mosaics in your next quilting or sewing project. Author Paula Doyle proves how easy it can be to get perfect precision patchwork on a small scale with her piecing techniques. Create more than 30 different complex-looking blocks that make for wonderfully...
by Henryk Jurkowski
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis.
by Eleanor Margolies
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Props are moving objects of attention: they can be part of theatre scenery, equal partners in performance, or autonomous things. This wide-ranging book brings together both theoretical and practical viewpoints on objects in performance, covering actor training, scenography, materials, construction techniques and object theatre.
The Chivalric Folk Tradition in Sicily
A History of Storytelling, Puppetry, Painted Carts and Other Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Tracing the development in Sicily of a chivalric tradition based on the medieval stories of Charlemagne and his knights, this is an analysis of Sicilian storytelling, puppetry, festivals, cart painting and other folk art. Interviews with puppeteers are documented, and hand painted cart panels and...
by Francis E. Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
by Storck
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Mastered the art of throwing your voice but not sure what to say? This book contains a wealth of ideas for ventriloquism sketches. Thoroughly recommended reading for the tongue-tied ventriloquist. Containing black and white drawings of a selection of dummies. This book contains classic material dating...
Marionettes
How to Make and Work Them
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is the complete book of marionette craft — from making heads and constructing bodies to stringing the marionettes on one- and two-hand controls, operating the marionettes, and putting on your own shows. Four books by Helen Fling have been brought together to make this volume. Their wealth of...
Sid and Marty Krofft
A Critical Study of Saturday Morning Children's Television, 1969-1993
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
H.R. Pufnstuf, Lidsville, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Land of the Lost: For a generation of children growing up in the late sixties and early seventies, these were some of the most memorable shows on Saturday morning television. At a time when television cartoons had lost some of their luster, two...