Practical Puppetry A-Z: A Guide for Librarians and Teachers
Jefferson, NC; London: McFarland (2005), xii, 267 pp.
Contains illustrations, bibliogr. pp. 255-264, index
ISBN 0-7864-1516-9
Signature commbox: 10-Children/Youth-E 2005
"This book can benefit people who work with children and those who are interested in beginning puppetry or who want to expand their puppetry knowledge base. It is meant to be an aid to research, an idea starter, and a curiosity tickler. If you have always wanted to try shadow puppetry, for instance, you might want to know a little about the cultures that use shadow puppetry. Then you might want to be led to some books that would give you ideas for trying out shadow puppetry. The titles of suggested books at the end of each entry will lead you to the bibliography with its annotations, which in turn will give you information about the recommended books. Reading the annotations will help to refine your choices and point you toward the first title to try. For example, if you’re a classroom teacher interested in shadow puppetry, you might gravitate to Wisniewskis’ Worlds of Shadow, a book written for teachers. The same title might also appeal to a health worker with a minimum budget and small amount of equipment space who wants to use puppets to involve children in learning about healthy living." (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 PuppetsEyes -- 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 -- MouthsMusic -- 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 PuppetsSound Systems -- Sponge Puppets -- Spring-Legged Puppets -- Stages -- Stereotyping -- Stick Puppets -- Storage -- Stories and Scripts -- Stu›ed 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
