Board games containing interactive books represent 1 of the most exciting developments in the 20th/21st-century ...

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The book itself is the game board, the storytelling engine, or a spectacular visual centerpiece ...

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... But Meggendorfer went much further in his development of interactive books and ultimately achieved creating pop up books. ...

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Bij de start van een Nieuw Jaar, is het tijd voor iets nieuws van De Wandelgek, (vreest niet, De Wandelgek blijft bestaan, vooral op Insta). Al een tijdje catalogiseer ik als opgeleid bibliothecaris m'n vele boeken, op Librarything als de BookNookLibrarian. Ook BlueSky ga ik me op boeken richten...

I had to delay my posting on Bluesky with a year. But let's start again😃
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ENJOYING LIFE, JOIE DE VIVRE, CARPE DIEM; it is time to get into writing about books and this blogpost marks the start of that.

Sabuda and Reinhart naturally, but being China which is famous for its minimalist drawings and photography, it couldn't take too long before influences from the French #minimalist School were showing too...

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After the Sabuda Reinhart pop up extravaganza, China and Iran stepped up ...

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... and although they were inspired greatly by those 2, they added a lot of originality in the topics like Asian art, people and literature.

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Spectacular pop ups: 001
From: This Book is a Planetarium.
A beautiful pop up unfolding, a mobile phone torch light and the result is the night sky on your walls and ceiling🌟⭐️🌠🌌
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In the next period I will focus on showing you in detail some of the most beautiful or surprising pop ups and interactive features from my own book collection... soon...
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The elegance lies in its restraint: few elements yield maximum interactivity, embodying minimalist pop-up philosophy where less paper enables more imaginative play.

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This post ends the History of interactive books ...

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This blogpost will mainly focus on two individual pop up artists who have both elevated the level of pop up art to new heights.

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Here is an example showing of how very extravagant they got ...

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Ironically, the more “virtual” the world becomes, the more a paper object that resists swipes and taps feels like an adventure.

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Here is an example of how very diverse, creative and complex pop up building got.

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Nick Bantock’s Griffin and Sabine trilogies were a very strange correspondence in which it seemed to me that the main characters were actually two halfs of a schizophrenic person, but even that is left in doubt …

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In the US, a marketing insight changed everything. Blue Ribbon Books started releasing titles with bold text on the cover: “A Pop‑Up Book.” This label stuck so strongly that the whole genre eventually adopted it.

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By the 18th century, book printers realized that moving paper parts could also be theatrical.

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Pull tabs in interactive books are sliding mechanisms that let readers move parts of the illustrations by pulling a tab ...

It is quite a marvelous thing to realize that the roots of interactive books lie in medieval Europe, ...
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Even in monasteries, some scribes could not resist the urge to make pages actually do something...

This book is a nice introduction to show that almost anything is possible and the limits of what can be determined by the limits of the imagination of the creators rather than by the only physical limits.
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Have fun and let me know in the comments what you think of this exciting book.
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In the coming episodes of the BookNookLibrarian I will delve much deeper into what is possible with pop-ups, how pop-ups work and the history of the pop-up.
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