Puppet

Silvester is a puppet maker and puppeteer who has made hundreds of puppets and performed with them all over the world. We meet him right at the end of his life, when he has donated all his puppets to a museum exhibition.

He is old and alone and decides to make one more puppet, a very odd looking mismatched Puppet made from leftover bits and bobs from the workshop. But to his amazement, Puppet comes alive and speaks to him!

They go out into the world and no one quite notices just how odd Puppet looks, instead treating him as if he is Silvester’s grandson. They meet a truly lovely girl called Fleur and Silvester decides to teach Fleur how to make puppets and pass all his knowledge on.  

It’s a very beautiful, magical, strange, philosophical book exploring profound themes of creativity and life itself. But at the same time, it’s very readable and a beautiful story that will leave children wondering in the best possible way.