movablebooks.info

MovableBooks.info

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

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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: Vampyre

    VAMPYRE: The Terrifying Lost Journal of Dr. Cornelius Van Helsing.Philip Chidlow, design and art direction, for Brushfire Limited. Text by Mary-Jane Knight. Illustrations by Gary BLythe, Philip Jacobs, and Mike Peterkin / Artful Doodlers.Harper Collins Children’s Books, 2007.

  • Pop-ups at UMN Library

    The University of Minnesota Libraries has just published “Surprises at Every Turn: UMN Libraries Brings Large Collection of Pop-up Books to the World,” celebrating Dennis…

  • Movable a Week: Castle

    Castle: Medieval Days and Knights.Kyle Olmon, paper engineer and text. Tracy Sabin, illustrator. Presented by Robert Sabuda & Matthew Reinhart. Scholastic/Orchard Books, 2006.

  • 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…