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I use several reliable sites specialising in tracking down books and they only find one book by a Noreen young, but judging by the subject matter I don't think it's the same person.
Thanks for looking! I did manage to track down a copy of her "Pickles and Puppets", which might have been what I was thinking of, although that is a whole play and I thought this just focused on puppets.
:O was it a dvd??? That might have been it!
This past summer I found a book online through my state library catalog about making your own puppets, and I believe it was cowritten by Noreen Young (creator of Under the Umbrella tree :) I've been searching recently for it and it's all but vanished! Anybody know what book I'm talking about?