Wordsworth D. Worm

Almost all of my shows encourage children to read and I wanted a puppet to express that. I also wanted a puppet that was uniquely mine. In the past, I’ve purchased my puppets and there are a few other entertainers who have puppets like them. I thought about it for a while and decided that a bookworm was just perfect for that. Lots of libraries use a bookworm as a mascot, but none of them have a puppet. So, I spent the last month building Wordsworth D. Worm. He’s about four feet long because I wanted something very visual. Sometimes I perform for several hundred children at a time. His eyes move side to side and his antennas droop.

After looking up several pictures of bookworms I’ve found things that make a bookworm look like a bookworm. They are always green. They almost always wear glasses. And, many of them have the characteristics of snakes and caterpillars. This is why they are never pink like a normal worm. Finally, many of them have arms. I guess they need arms to hold books. I decided mine should have arms mostly because I wanted something else to move on the puppet.

The picture on the bottom is for my new business cards, brochures, and other material.

So, here he is, Wordsworth D. Worm.