Poppy's Puppet
Books / Hardcover
Books › Juvenile Fiction › General
ISBN: 0805052917 / Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), September 1999
Poppy carves wonderful marionettes from pieces of wood, listening to each piece to see just what he should make, but when he finds a silent piece and decides to make it into a ballerina, things do not turn out as planned
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Poppy creates magical puppets whose personalities are determined by what Poppy 'hears' in the wood before he carves it. When he takes his puppets on the road, their show becomes famous throughout the land.But one day Poppy impatiently shapes a ballerina puppet, Clarinda, from a piece of wood without listening carefully to the wood's message. Clarinda will not perform--and almost ruins the show--until Poppy discovers her secret wish.
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