Children’s author Eric Carle, who lived in Northampton for decades, was known for books including “Brown Bear, Brown Bear,” ...

and a four-legged fiberglass standing puppet to show a polar bear's height. The team also used a "couch bear," which was a gray buck to lean against. Even though the animals look incredibly real ...

The trio works together each show to not only operate and mobilize the puppet, but to also create sounds that a tiger would make in real life. "Because we cannot speak throughout the show in human ...