This book touches on the basics of a variety of puppet types, building techniques, materials and tools, manipulation, staging, lighting, sound and performance. Because it covers a range of puppet types, it’s perfect starting ground for learning about puppetry.

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If you’ve ever wanted to make a puppet that looks as good as Kermit, but is your own design, then you will want to buy The Foam Book.

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There is a free ebook on the web entitled You can make puppet costumes. I have used this book for everything from muppet-type puppet costumes, to designing and making clothes for rod puppets.

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This book is about 550 pages long so it takes one a while to read. It is basically a selection of excerpts (the Japanese write very long plays, some up to several hours, and only excerpts of plays are now performed) of traditional Japanese plays, each with its own introduction, and each type of Japanese theatre gets a short chapter explaining the styles, traditions, costumes and staging.

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