New and full of questions!

[SillyPoet]

Hi everyone! I have had an interest in ventriloquism for a while now, but also in full body costume making. I was wondering if anyone had good sorces for the following:

For vent puppets:
moving eyes or eyebrows
monster fur
those really thin feathers that usually top the head
foam

also looking for a source for the stick bases for characters like rizzo the rat- and if there is a book out there on it, all the better!

I was looking for the gadgets needed to make something like the In Between the Lions puppets- the eyes and ears move to make their faces so expressive!

For full body costumes:
a book on how to make these- as well as making them as lightweight as possible- I wanted to make a dragon costume and thought this would be so cool to make!

I am trying to get ahold of the Foam Book, but don't have it yet...if there are more books I needed, I wanted to get them all at once. any ideas?