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Jim Henson: The Guy Who Played with Puppets
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Jim Henson: The Guy Who Played with Puppets Hardcover - 2011

by Kathleen Krull


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Sesame Street and The Muppet Show introduced Jim Henson's Muppets to the world, making Kermit the Frog, Oscar the Grouch, and Big Bird household names. But even as a child in rural Mississippi, listening to the radio and putting on comedy shows for his family, Jim recognized the power of laughter to bring people together. On Sesame Street, Jim's Muppets transformed children's television by making learning fun for kids everywhere. A visionary, Jim always believed that puppets could reach a wider audience. In 1976, he proved it, drawing millions of family viewers to The Muppet Show. With his feature film The Dark Crystal and his Star Wars characters including Yoda Jim continued to push the boundaries of what was possible in puppetry until his death in 1990 at the age of 53.
Kathleen Krull, recipient of the Children's Book Guild 2011 Non-fiction Award and many other accolades, once again does what she does so well illuminating the life of an important figure in history, art, and culture with her informative but approachable writing style.

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  • Title Jim Henson: The Guy Who Played with Puppets
  • Author Kathleen Krull
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 40
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House Books for Young Readers, Westminster, MD, U.S.A.
  • Date 2011-08-23
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780375857218 / 0375857214
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.34 x 8.85 x 0.38 in (28.80 x 22.48 x 0.97 cm)
  • Ages 05 to 09 years
  • Grade levels K - 4
  • Reading level 960
  • Library of Congress subjects Henson, Jim, Television producers and directors - United
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010043837
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

KATHLEEN KRULL winner of the 2010 Eureka! Children's Nonfiction Award Silver Honor is perhaps best known as a writer of richly entertaining biographies for children, such as FDR and The Boy Who Invented TV. Her Lives of series, which includes Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought), has been hugely popular with readers of all ages. Kathleen lives with her husband, children's illustrator Paul Brewer, in San Diego, California.
STEVE JOHNSON and LOU FANCHER, a husband-and-wife team, are the illustrators of The Boy on Fairfield Street by Kathleen Krull, My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss, and New York's Bravest by Mary Pope Osborne. I Walk At Night was a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. Visit www.johnsonandfancher.com.

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