Ingrid M. Crepeau has been designing and constructing puppets of all kinds for almost fifty years. She is a founding member of GRAMMY-nominated Dinorock Productions, Inc. where she has garnered two Wammies for best children's group and a Parent's Choice Award. As a cofounder of Patchwork Puppet Productions, Ingrid also won two regional Emmy awards for puppet design for SNEAKERS, a children's television series on WDVM-TV in Washington, D.C. Ingrid has been a master artist with the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning through the Arts since 1985. She provides professional-development workshops and classroom work around the country for teachers of young children, and also presents her work at national conferences for the National Association for Education of Young Children. Publications: A Show of Hands: Using Puppets with Young Children (Redleaf Press, 2003) Websites: www.dinorocks.com www.ashowofhands.org

A Show of Hands: Using Puppets with Young Children Authors: Ingrid M. Crepeau, M. Ann Richards Product Code: 312401 Price: $24.95 A Show of Hands presents ways for you to use puppets as developmentally appropriate teaching tools. Seven chapters illustrate how the use of puppets can support emergent literacy skills, introduce children's literature, and assist in lesson plan development. Includes instructions for designing, constructing, or purchasing your own puppets, as well as how puppets may be used with children with special needs. Download sample puppets here! Adobe Reader is required. . Qty: