Library Shows

Our Library Shows are designed to stimulate the child's interest in reading. We provide the programs we have listed and we always strive to customize our shows, following each summer's reading program theme. We encourage children to discover the wonders waiting for them in the pages of a book.

School Assembly Shows

Our School programs are designed to support California Education Standards, to be educational and to be entertaining.

Preschool Programs

These programs are designed to entertain and inspire our youngest minds.

Community Events

We offer programs from stage shows to walk around puppet theater.

Aesop’s Fables:

This Program features the story “The Race of the Tortoise and the Hare.” Our hand and rod puppets bring to life this traditional tale. The program incorporates live character voices, audience participation, and humor, the excitement builds to the "you had a goal and stuck to it" ending. The puppet show is followed by an in depth demonstration of puppet styles, performance technique, and ideas on how to make puppets, & puppet stages, at home or school, using recycled materials. Self-expression through an art form! Standards Connection: Language Arts, Performing Arts (theatre)

Animal Tails:

This fun and educational program follows thee development of a puppet show from selecting and adapting the story, building the puppets through the actual performance. The performance includes a comical adaptation of the Aesop’s Fable “Thee Race of the Tortoise and the Hare,” followed by examples for making puppets at home using recycled materials and items that can be found around the house.

ld Fashioned Puppet Melodrama The California Gold Rush:

In this presentation, the students will learn about the California Gold Rush through an authentically represented, 19th century Melodrama, with everyone cheering, for the hero, and booing, for the villain. A demonstration follows on the art of puppetry.

Walk Around Puppet Theater:

This program is great for fairs, festival and Community events that want roaming entertainment. Wonderworld Characters will stroll throughout your event, improvise with your guests, pose for pictures and give information on the day’s activities. General Character and Christmas Themed character are available.

Testimonials

"Enthusiastically Received" - Butte County Fair Classical, Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Latin American, Brazilian, —Reggae, Hip-Hop

"Once again, you have provided imaginative, amusing, educational entertainment for us. Both the teachers and the children enjoyed the show and the "behind the scenes" demonstration afterward."
— Pete Spadaro, Manhattan Beach Child Development Center

"The Los Angeles Public Library can enthusiastically recommend Wonderworld to any library looking for exciting, literature-based programs for children."
— Anne Connor, Children's Services Coordinator, Los Angeles Public Library.