Dressing the Naked Hand: The World’s Greatest Guide to Making Staging and Performing with Puppets

November 2, 2019 By LDSPMA 2 Comments

by Amy White

With tons of color photographs and a DVD with over 2 hours of hilarious instructional videos, this is the perfect how-to book for all levels of puppetry skill, from beginners to master artisans. With instructions on making hand puppets, turning stuffed animals into puppets, building hand puppets, performing, inventing voices, building stages, and more, this is the most comprehensive book of its kind. And with jokes and puppet humor throughout, it’s not just a handbook it’s a joy to read!

Dressing the Naked Hand: The World’s Greatest Guide to Making Staging and Performing with Puppets

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Stephen Purdy says

January 22, 2021 at 12:24 pm

Very hard to find. Where is this book available?

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- Brittany Passmore says
  
  February 2, 2021 at 1:20 pm
  
  Hello, Stephen!
  
  You can find this book on Amazon easily, and most likely on eBay as well.
  
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