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21) Spell & spindle
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Museum of Peculiar Arts holds many oddities--a mechanical heart, a diary bound in its owner's skin . . . and Penny, a child-size marionette who almost looks alive. Fog clouds Penny's memories from before the museum, but she catches glimpses here and there: a stage, deep red curtains, long-fingered hands gripping her strings. One day, a boy named Chance touches Penny's strings and hears her voice in his head. Penny can listen, and watch, and think?...
25) Nothing to do
Author
Series
Publisher
Western Pub. Co. in conjunction with Children's Television Workshop
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Big Bird's insatiable appetite for activity has Granny Bird busy thinking up things for him to do.
26) Louie
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
c1975.
Language
English
Description
Susie and Roberto are putting on a puppet show and all of their friends have come to see it, including she Louie. As the show begins, Louie becomes fascinated by the smiling puppet Gussie and shouts "Hello!" in front of a silent audience. After the show, Louie goes home and dreams about Gussie. When he wakes up, he discovers that his friends have left a gift for him. This classic Ezra Jack Keats story of love and generosity is as meaningful today...
Author
Series
[For a muse of fire] volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jetta, a teen who possesses secret, forbidden powers, must gain access to a hidden spring and negotiate a world roiling with intrigue and the beginnings of war"--
Jetta's family is the most talented troupe of shadow players in the land. With Jetta behind the scrim, their puppets seem to move without string or stick-- a trade secret, they say. In truth, Jetta uses the forbidden old ways to bind the souls of the recently departed to the puppets with...
Author
Series
For a muse of fire volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jetta is a wanted criminal. The army wants her for treason against the crown, for the sabotage of Hell's Court temple, and for the murder of General Legarde. They also want her for the power in her blood -- the magic that captures wandering spirits to give life to puppets, to rocks, to paper, to weapons. They're willing to trade the elixir that treats Jetta's madness for the use of her blood. The rebels want her, too, to help them reclaim their country....
29) Pinocho
Author
Series
Publisher
Alma
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"Pinocho es mucho más que uno de los grandes clásicos de la literatura italiana: se trata de una obra esencial por su deliciosa mezcla de crueldad, humor y fantasía. La marioneta Pinocho aprende de sus errores, enmienda su inconstancia y se convierte en un ser humano de provecho responsable gracias a los buenos consejos del Grillo Parlante, que es la voz de su conciencia, y los desvelos de Geppetto y el Hada, que personifican el amor paterno y...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sir Hereward: the only male child of an ancient society of witches. Knight, artillerist, swordsman. Mercenary for hire. Ill-starred lover. Mister Fitz: puppet, sorcerer, loremaster. Practitioner of arcane arts and wielder of sorcerous needles. Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: godslayers. Agents of the Council of the Treaty for the Safety of the World, charged with the location and removal of listed extra-dimensional entities, more commonly known as gods....
Author
Series
Goosebumps volume 31
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
Requesting a new dummy when her old one loses its head, young ventriloquist Amy receives Slappy, a strange, used dummy that moves of its own accord and disrupts things with the intent of making Amy's life miserable.
33) Who's the boss?
Author
Publisher
Twirl
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
All the animals want to be the boss...until someone bigger, taller--and louder--steps in to show who's the real boss!
34) Pinocchio
Author
Series
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A lonely woodcutter creates a puppet that comes to life, but Pinocchio is more of a prankster than a pleasure until he learns that being a real boy is much more complicated than simply having fun.
35) Bluey: Bob Bilby
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Licenses
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When it's Bingo's turn to take Bob Bilby the puppet home, will they put down their screens and devices to have fun times? This book retells the Bluey episode, Bob Bilby. Once again, Blue Heelers Bingo and Bluey use their limitless energy to explore their world in unpredictable and humorous ways.
36) Peekaboo, Elmo!
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in conjunction with Sesame Workshop
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Invites young readers to play peek-a-boo with baby Elmo and his Sesame Street friends, including Big Bird, Grover, and Prairie Dawn.
37) Thornhill
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Parallel plotlines set in different times, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door"--
1982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very moment that it's shutting its doors. When her few friends are all adopted or re-homed and she's left to face a volatile bully alone, her revenge will have a lasting effect on the bully, on Mary, and on Thornhill...
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