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Available
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Publication
New York : Little Simon, c1999.
Description
Here at last is the definitive book on how to make a pop-up. Every aspect of the creation of a pop-up, known as paper engineering, is clearly and thoroughly covered. All types of parallel folds, angle folds, wheels and pull tabs are accurately detailed verbally and visually, flat and in dimension. Also included is a history of pop-ups and a step-by-step photographic essay on how a pop-up is made from start to finish. This guided tour is perfect for aspiring pop-up creators, paper engineers, students and appreciators of this unique art form.
Media reviews
Horn Book Magazine
[T]he book will of course be devoured by those mechanically minded children (and adults) who have been bitten by the pop-up bug.
User reviews
LibraryThing member quondame
This is a fun hands on sample book of the forms for creating the structures used to make paper pop up. I would have appreciated an envelope of pieces and a few glue strips, but they do offer the dies for the shapes online.Also the more complicated mechanical aspects are left unexampled - how to
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join parts that rotate around a center point, how to anchor and assemble with string. Show Less
LibraryThing member Katya0133
This is a both pop up book and a book on how to create pop up design. Carter breaks the world of pop up construction into basic elements with clear explanations and a working model. The best book on pop up construction I've ever read.
LibraryThing member raizel
Lots of details about how to make pop-ups.
LibraryThing member themulhern
A pop-up book to teach the basic elements of pop-ups. The various elements are nicely classified. There is a discussion of how commercial pop-up books are manufactured.
Awards
CCBC Choices (2000)
Notable Children's Book (2000)
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Physical description
33 cm
ISBN
9780689822247