CHAPTER III
Choosing Your Play
It may not always be easy to find just the play you wish for your marionettes. If you should go to your library and ask for a marionette play, it is possible that the librarian would have very little to offer you. But if you should go to her and ask for a good story that you could make into a marionette play, you would probably be surprised to see how many books she would place before you. You might even feel confused when you came to make your choice. Suppose that you wish to give a humorous play. Begin by making a list of the very best of the humorous books:
Alice in Wonderland—Carroll
Alice, Through the Looking Glass—Carroll
Gulliver’s Travels—Swift
Pinocchio, The Story of a Marionette—Lorenzini
Don Quixote—Cervantes
Midsummer Night’s Dream—Shakespeare
Peter and Wendy—Barrie