Noreen Isabel Young, CM (born September 11, 1952) is a Canadian producer and puppeteer, and is still actively involved in puppeteering through her corporation Noreen Young Productions.
She was the creator of Under the Umbrella Tree, a popular CBC Television children's series that ran from 1986-1993, and was also the puppeteer for a character on Sesame Park, the Canadian version of Sesame Street.
Young featured in the second Care Bears television special, 1984's The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine.
She is also known for her caricature puppets of public figures such as former governor-general Adrienne Clarkson, CBC news anchor Peter Mansbridge and hockey commentator Don Cherry, and of prominent personalities from her hometown of Almonte, Ontario. She currently serves as artistic director of the Puppets Up international puppet festival, held annually in Almonte.
She was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2005.
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“In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)