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A pop-up book is any book with three-dimensional pages, often with elements that pop up as a page is turned. The terminology serves as an umbrella term for movable book , pop-ups , tunnel books , transformations , volvelles , flaps , pull-tabs , pop-outs , pull-downs , and other features each performing in a different manner.
Ellen G. K. Rubin is a pop-up and movable book collector known as the "Popuplady". She is best known for her collection of over 9,000 books, including more than 1,000 by the Czech paper engineer Vojtěch Kubašta, as well as for her lectures and research on the history of the pop-up and movable book formats.
The Movable Book Society (MBS) is a nonprofit organization which provides a forum for artists, book sellers, book producers, collectors, curators, and others to share enthusiasm and exchange information about pop-up and movable books. The Society has nearly 450 members worldwide.
The pop-up book has evolved from a seemingly simplistic idea to one of more sophistication, as well as complication. They have grown to be a genre that delights, intrigues, and educates children of all ages. One key person in the pop-up book phenomenon is Waldo Hunt, who was the first to develop these books in the United States. [10]
Johnson is the author of almost 20 publications about book making, including the seminal 1992 Pop-up Paper Engineering guide to the moveable book form. Other books by Johnson include: A Book of One's Own: Developing Literacy Through Making Books (1991; ISBN 978-0435087081) Books Searching for Authors (1994; ISBN 978-0340589106) Get Writing!
Wehr invented and patented [3] [4] [5] the animated children's book that contained moveable paper parts using tabs, [6] [7] commonly read by children in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. . An animated pop-up book consists of three elements: a story, colored illustrations of the text, and two or more animated illustrations with their movement mechanisms working between a double pa
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The Elements of Pop-Up: A Pop-Up Book for Aspiring Paper Engineers, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1999. (with James Diaz) Flapdoodle Dinosaurs: A Colorful Pop-Up Book, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2001. Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?: Fun Flaps and Pop-Up Surprises, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2002.