{My thoughts} – Like most 1980’s children I grew up loving and knowing who the Muppets were. One of my favorite cartoons as a child was the Muppet Babies.

Jim Henson was a brilliant artist/ creator or imaginative things. He had a vision and he had the ability to make that vision come true. He had many ideas and many thoughts and suggestions as to how to go about making his Muppets well known and popular. He was a guy that was before his time when it came to his ability to making inanimate objects appear to be real. He figured out ways to do this without the use of computer graphics.

I learned quite a bit about him in this book that I didn’t already know. If you are wanting to learn about him and his life, this is a really good book to pick up and read. I look forward to sharing it with my children. ( )

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Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets and Sesame Street, faced some trouble while following his dream but managed to create a successful company and affect the lives of many people with his creations. This biography not only utilizes illustrations to attract the reader, it also includes connections to other notable people, shows, and events that influenced Jim Henson. The intended audience of this book is middle school aged students but older students will still find this book informational as well as entertaining. This book can be used in art as well as social studies when studying notable people. ( )

Who Was Jim Henson? by Joan Holub is a wonderful book that tells of a boy with a dream and how he took that dream to make a name for himself. This book lets the reader into the personal side of the puppet master and see how it started as a boy, and on up. Very detailed and enjoyable read. Lots of fun sketches and over 100 pages of info on this great imaginative man. A real loss to lose him so young in his life. This book is made for middle grade/teens but adults will find they love it too. I got this book from the library. ( )