The Shari Lewis Puppet Book is a guide to creating and performing with puppets, written by the legendary puppeteer Shari Lewis. In this book, Lewis shares her years of experience and expertise in the art of puppetry, offering step-by-step instructions for making a variety of puppets, including hand puppets, marionettes, and shadow puppets. She also provides tips on puppet manipulation, voice acting, and staging, as well as advice on how to create engaging and entertaining puppet shows for audiences of all ages. The book is ...
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The Shari Lewis Puppet Book is a guide to creating and performing with puppets, written by the legendary puppeteer Shari Lewis. In this book, Lewis shares her years of experience and expertise in the art of puppetry, offering step-by-step instructions for making a variety of puppets, including hand puppets, marionettes, and shadow puppets. She also provides tips on puppet manipulation, voice acting, and staging, as well as advice on how to create engaging and entertaining puppet shows for audiences of all ages. The book is filled with colorful illustrations and photographs, making it a visually appealing and practical guide for aspiring puppeteers and seasoned professionals alike. With its comprehensive coverage of all aspects of puppetry, The Shari Lewis Puppet Book is an essential resource for anyone interested in this timeless and captivating art form.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Very Good Plus / Good Plus. Large octavo, 10 in. x 6.75 in., pp. 61. Orange cloth boards with black title and puppet design to front. Light rubbing to extremities. Ink stamp ("Received April 6, 1962") to front pastedown. Several creases, chips, and small tears to dustjacket edges. Protected in mylar. Shari Lewis, original name Phyllis Hurwitz (1933-1998), was "an American puppeteer and author who entertained and educated children on a series of television shows for some 40 years as the creator and voice of a series of sock puppets, most notably a woolly character named Lamb Chop. Lewis studied acting, dance, and singing as a child and displayed a gift for ventriloquism, a skill her father, an illusionist, encouraged by hiring a former vaudevillian as her coach. She performed in nightclubs and summer stock productions and in 1952 won top prize on the television program Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. In 1957 she appeared on the children's program Captain Kangaroo and introduced Lamb Chop, a hand puppet with long eyelashes, a squeaky voice, and an inquisitive manner. The duo's popularity led to numerous other TV appearances and eventually to The Shari Lewis Show (1960-63), a program that featured knock-knock jokes, singing, and humorous skits...From 1968 to 1976 she was based in London creating shows for BBC. She returned to American television with shows that included Lamb Chop's Play-Along (1992-97) and The Charlie Horse Music Pizza (1998-99). Lewis sought to educate children in the role of an older playmate rather than that of a teacher. A vigorous supporter of quality children's programming, she won 12 Emmy awards for her television work." (from Britannica).