shadow shows

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The art of shadow puppets

2019
Explores the history of shadow puppets and the art behind them.

Using light to make shadow puppets

2018
An introduction to making shadow puppet shows.

My last lament

2017
"Aliki is one of the last of her kind, a lamenter who mourns and celebrates the passing of life. She is a part of an evolving Greece, a country moving steadily away from its rural traditions. To capture the fading folk art of lamenting, an American researcher asks Aliki to record her laments, but in response, Aliki sings her own story. It begins in a village in northeast Greece, where Aliki witnesses the occupying Nazi soldiers execute her father forstealing a squash. Taken in by her friend Takis's mother, Aliki is joined by a Jewish refugee and her son, Stelios. When the village is torched and its people massacred, Aliki, Takis and Stelios are able to excape just as the war is ending. Fleeing across the chaotic landscape of a postwar Greece, the three become a makeshift family."--Dust jacket.
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The game of shadows

2013
With a grown-up's help and a torch, embark on a magical night-time adventure. Mysterious shadows will appear on the dark walls.

Mother, mother, I feel sick, send for the doctor quick, quick, quick

a picture book and shadow play
1980
An extraordinary stomachache is cured when a doctor removes a large number of strange objects from the victim's stomach. Includes instructions for performing the story as a shadow play.

Fantastic theater

puppets and plays for young performers and young audiences
1991
Thirty puppet plays adapted from nursery rhymes, folk songs, fables, poetry, folktales, and myths with instructional chapters on making and using rod and shadow puppets and puppet stages.

Kinderkittens

show-and-tell
1994
The Kinderkitten's class has a show-and-tell session and Sophie wants to bring something special to it.

Shadow play

story
1990
While visiting the county fair, a brother and sister are enthralled by a shadow puppet show presentation of "Beauty and the Beast" in which all the shadows are made by one man.

The rooster's horns

a Chinese puppet play to make and perform
1978
Presents the plot of a Chinese puppet play and includes directions for making shadow puppets and a theatre.

Puppets & shadow plays

1974
Instructions for creating puppets and shadow figures and staging puppet shows and shadow plays.

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