movablebooks.info

MovableBooks.info

Pop-up books, carousel books, leporellos, tunnel books, and more, plus Paper Engineering in general.

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This website collects information I’ve been gathering from various sources.

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Choose from the categories above to learn more about Movable Books: what they are, their history, which institutions collect and study them, who makes them, and much more.

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Be sure also to check out the websites of The Movable Book Society, The Pop-Up Lady, Livres Animes, and VintagePopUpBooks.com!

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Contact me at movablebooksandsuch [at] gmail [dot] com

–Gene Kannenberg, Jr. // @genekjr

  • Movable a Week: A Book of Day-Time

    A Book of Day-Time: A Pop-up Book of Sundials.Cindy West, paper engineer, designer, and illustrator. Yvette Lodge, author (?).Brown Wells & Jacobs Ltd., 2001.

  • Movable a Week: Pop Op

    Pop Op: A Pop-up Book of Optical Illusions.David A. Carter, paper engineer. Prestel Publishing Ltd., 2026.

  • Movable a Week: Trains

    Trains: A Pop-up Railroad Book.Robert Crowther, paper engineer. With thanks to Graham Relton and Peter Sturley at the National Railway Museum, York, for their help…

  • “We wanted a staircase that could disappear”

    Head over to the post “A World of Maps, Folded Flat” at graphic designer and information theorist RJ Andrews‘ Chartography.net for the behind-the-scenes tale of how Andrews and paper engineer Ray Marshall worked on “turning the David Rumsey Map Center’s…

  • Movable a Week: Alive

    Alive: The Living, Breathing Human Body Book.Iain Smyth, paper engineer. Written by Anita Ganeri. Pop-up illustrations by Philip Fitzgerald. With battery-operated lights and sound.DK Books,…

  • Movable a Week: Paris Pop-Up

    Paris Pop-Up. Dominique Ehrhard, paper engineer. Text by Carole Saturno. Graphic design by Atelier SAJE, Published in June 2015 by Les Grande Personnes, Paris. Above:…