David Weitzman’s Rama and Sita is a book that demands attention the moment you see it. A fifteen-second riffle through the pages tells you this is a work of wonderful illustration and masterful book making. It is as if intricate puppets, painted in bright colors and decorated in gold leaf, have been pressed onto the book’s white pages, letting the text flow around them. This is a book for folklorists [and] puppeteers, who take it as a simple fact of life that a few sticks and a scrap of leather can produce both gods and laughs.

Jerry Juhl in Puppetry Journal