PUPPET BIBLIOGRAPHY

Patti Smithsonian
DRAMA
Making Puppets Come Alive. Larry Engles and Carol Fijan
This is one of my favorite books on puppetry with children. There are many great
exercises on how to get movement and drama from the puppets.
Storytelling Made Easy with Puppetry. Jan Van Schuyver
On Stage: Theater Games and Activities for Kids. Lisa Bany-Winters
Improvisation for the Classroom. Viola Spolin
Playing with Puppets. Liz Paludan
SCRIPTS
Folktake Plays for Puppets. Lewis Mahlmann and David Cadwalader Jones.
Multicultural Folktales: Stories to Tell Young Children. Pamela Gerke
Multicultural Plays for Children. Pamela Gerke
Aesop's Fables. Plays for Young Children. Dr. Albert Cullum
(see documentary film on Dr. Cullum: A Touch of Greatness
SHADOW PUPPETRY
Worlds of Shadow: Teaching with Shadow Puppetry. David Wisniewski and
Donna Wisniewski
Hand Shadows. Albert Amoznino.
Shadow Theater. Lotte Reininger.
PUPPET MAKING
Muppets Make Puppets: How to Create And Operate Over 35 Great Puppets
Using Stuff From Around Your House. Cheryl Henson.
Showstoppers: 70 Easy-to-present Classroom Art Lesson for Elementary Kids.
Gene Baer.

Puppets for Play Production. Nancy Renfro

Puppets Shows Made Easy. Nancy Renfro
PUPPETRY LINKS
HYPERLINK "http://www.sagecraft.com" www.sagecraft.com
This site offers puppeteers bulletin board, classified adds, and information on
puppetry workshops, materials, festivals
HYPERLINK "http://www.puppeteers.org" www.puppeteers.org
This is the website for the organization The Puppeteers of America. This group
sponsors puppetry festival, educational workshops, and a wonderful AUDIOVISUAL LIBRARY, which lends puppet videos by mail to Puppeteers of America
members.
HYPERLINK "http://www.unima-usa.org" www.unima-usa.org This site is for
an international puppetry organization. Check it out for festivals, performances,
and workshops.
HYPERLINK "http://puppetco-op.org/" http://puppetco-op.org/
On-line simple instructions for homemade big puppets.
MEDIA
A Touch of Greatness (2004) dvd
Documentary on creative teacher Albert Cullum
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) dvd
Lotte Reiniger
The Year of Living Dangerously dvd
Short beginning sequence of Indonesian shadow puppetry
The Double Life of Veronique. dvd
Bruce Schwartz puppetry
Pilobolus Dance Company shadow theater
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiX-DW8Qk4w
Richard Bradshaw shadow puppetry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNsJ6kDVbfk&feature=related