A Celebration of Pop-up and Movable Books


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A comprehensive by-year listing of the Movable Book Society Meggendorfer Awards finalists, honorable mentions and winners, with full-color photographs of books and paper engineers.For twenty years, the Movable Book Society has honored those paper engineers who have designed the most outstanding movable or pop-up trade books. In the spirit of German paper engineer Lothar Meggendorfer (1847-1925), the Meggendorfer Awards represent innovation, ingenuity and unparalleled excellence in movable book creation. This guide is the official history of the award and includes:?Complete listing of all the biennial nominees, honorable mentions and winners?Four categories: best paper engineering for a trade publication, outstanding emerging paper engineer, best artists book, and lifetime achievement?Full-color photographs of prize-winning books and memorable inside spreads?Short bios and photographs of award recipients?Index of more than 100 paper engineers and book artists including Simon Arizpe, Andrew Baron, Marion Bataille, Anouck Boisrobert, David A. Carter, James Roger Diaz, Nicholas Danish, Corina Fletcher, Bruce Foster, Colette Fu, Sam Ita, Yoojin Kim, Ray Marshall, Courtney Watson McCarthy, Kees Moerbeek, David Pelham, Matthew Reinhart, Louis Rigaud, Robert Sabuda, Ken Wilson-Max, Yevgeniya Yeretskaya and Dorothy YulePop-up book lovers, bibliophiles, librarians, parents and young readers will find this guide an essential help in building a complete collection of contemporary, three-dimensional books.




Pop-up and Movable Books


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For historians of printing and book design, students of children's literature, and book collectors, this record of 19th- and 20th-century English language books containing movable illustrations identifies, indexes, and describes some 1,600 titles. The volume is arranged alphabetically by title and has three separate indexes sorted by publication date, personal names of contributors, and series titles. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




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The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks


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Containing forty-eight chapters, The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks. It contains a detailed introduction, surveying the history and development of the field and emphasizing the international and cultural diversity of picturebooks. Divided into five key parts, this volume covers: Concepts and topics – from hybridity and ideology to metafiction and emotions; Genres – from baby books through to picturebooks for adults; Interfaces – their relations to other forms such as comics and visual media; Domains and theoretical approaches, including developmental psychology and cognitive studies; Adaptations. With ground-breaking contributions from leading and emerging scholars alike, this comprehensive volume is one of the first to focus solely on picturebook research. Its interdisciplinary approach makes it key for both scholars and students of literature, as well as education and media.




Interactive Books


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Movable books are an innovative area of children’s publishing. Commonly equated with spectacular pop-ups, movable books have a little-known history as interactive, narrative media. Since they are hybrid artifacts consisting of words, images and movable components, they cross the borders between story, toy, and game. Interactive Books is a historical and comparative study of early movable books in relation to the children who engage with them. Jacqueline Reid-Walsh focuses on the period movable books became connected with children from the mid-17th to the early-19th centuries. In particular, she examines turn-up books, paper doll books, and related hybrid experiments like toy theaters and paignion (or domestic play set) produced between 1650 and 1830. Despite being popular in their own time, these artifacts are little known today. This study draws attention to a gap in our knowledge of children’s print culture by showing how these artifacts are important in their own right. Reid-Walsh combines archival research with children’s literature studies, book history, and juvenilia studies. By examining commercially produced and homemade examples, she explores the interrelations among children, interactive media, and historical participatory culture. By drawing on both Enlightenment thinkers and contemporary digital media theorists Interactive Books enables us to think critically about children’s media texts paper and digital, past and present.




The Movable Book Society Meggendorfer Awards: Celebrating Paper Engineers, Book Artists & Pop-Up


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A comprehensive by-year listing of the Movable Book Society Meggendorfer Award finalists, honorable mentions and winners, with full-color photographs of books and paper engineers. For twenty years, the Movable Book Society has honored those paper engineers who have designed the most outstanding movable or pop-up trade books. In the spirit of German paper engineer Lothar Meggendorfer (1847-1925), the Meggendorfer awards represent innovation, ingenuity and unparalleled excellence in movable book creation. This guide is the official history of the award and includes: Complete listing of all the biennial nominees, honorable mentions and winners Four categories: best paper engineering for a trade publication, outstanding emerging paper engineer, best artists book, and lifetime achievement Full-color photographs of prize-winning books and memorable inside spreads Short bios and photographs of award recipients Index of more than 100 paper engineers and book artists. Pop-up book lovers, bibliophiles, librarians, parents and young readers will find this guide an essential help in building a complete collection of contemporary, three-dimensional books.




The Jumblies


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The Movable Mother Goose


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Robert Sabuda's The Movable Mother Goose puts a new spin on traditional nursery rhymes as they come alive in a glorious explosion of color! This pop-up extravaganza by award winner Robert Sabuda is destined to become a new classic for all generations.




Pop-up!


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There is a growing interest in the field of paper mechanics and this manual explains how they work and provides clear instructions for creating everything from the most elementary pop-up cards to highly sophisticated fold-away paper sculptures. The basic principles are simple and the book introduces these. It then shows how they can be developed and combined to produce a kaleidoscope of 3-D possibilities. Duncan Birmingham lectures at the University of West of England and this book is a distillation of his practical experience. It explains the factors which have to be considered when designing, as well as solutions to potential pitfalls. There are masses of ideas for interesting projects, all illustrated with lively and informative drawings.