puppets and puppet plays

Nellie, a cat marionette, loves to dance. Then she's left on her own and believes her dancing is over until her friend, Big Tom, takes her to a moonlit cat gathering.

Wembley Fraggle, longing for something exciting to happen to him, picks a giant radish in the garden of the Gorgs, then falls down the hole it has left behind.

On a rainy day, two children decide to make paper-bag puppets and put on a play for themselves and their parents.

In Geppetto's hand a piece of wood that talks becomes a living mischievous marionette and eventually, after many trials and errors, a real boy.

Presents patterns and step-by-step instructions for twenty-five animal puppets that can be made by teachers or librarians or used as a classroom project for children.

Step-by-step instructions explain how to create twelve puppets and perform with them, with professional staging techniques and tips for making puppets come alive for audiences.

Illustrated instructions for creating thirty-seven folded paper hand puppets and twenty-six alphabet finger puppets.

Text and stills from the film present the adventures of the puppet boy whose nose grew whenever he told a lie.

One mishap after another dogs Luke's attempts to put on a puppet show.

Louis, a withdrawn little boy, starts to peek out of his shell when he becomes fascinated with one of the characters in Susie and Roberto's puppet show.