Making and Manipulating Marionettes

I recently attended an intensive six day marionette carving course with expert carver and puppeteer John Roberts. I was looking for a book to use as a reference to help me with future projects and was delighted to come across this one by David Currell. The book is very well set out and contains many lovely colour photographs as well as detailed drawings showing how to construct the body parts and controls for different types of marionette. Although wood carving is explained, other materials are covered too. In addition to human figures there are also sections on animal characters, trick puppets and of course, how to manipulate marionettes. A bonus for me was that John Roberts has contributed to the book and there are some great illustrations of several of his amazing puppets. As a puppeteer this book takes pride of place in my library. Even if I wasn't a puppeteer I would still be happy to own it as it is so charming. I highly recommend it.

Well written and very informative.Gives a lot of information about a good number of puppets types.The pictures are excellent.

Excellent book.well written. It's helping me a lot.

This is a good book on the subject,and covers most of what a constructor/operator will want to know.

I love books about puppets, even though I don't make them any more. This has tons of interesting info and instructions for making marionettes. And lovely pictures.

Very good

useful

Good indeed but is nt always very clear. Sometimes details for threading certain puppetsi is not completly given. so you have to thinkout some by your own.