About the Author:
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