Take a peek through the “Tunnel of Calamity,” a peep show book full of Victorian-age characters hiding behind every fold. From one angle, the viewer sees a woman wearing a bonnet and a red arm muff ...

Ellen G. K. Rubin discovered pop-up and movable books when she began reading them to her sons over 25 years ago. Today, she has more than 6,500 books and thousands of uncataloged movable ephemera.

Were you to have popped into Bruce Foster’s workshop three years ago, you might have found the artist working on Charlie Brown -- cutting, folding, taping and gluing pieces of paper to depict, in ...

Today, books with pop-up illustrations—flaps to be lifted, tabs to be pulled, and wheels to be turned—form a small niche of the book market. Mostly, pop-up books are meant to get young children ...

Paper architects -- Movable books, past and present : What is a movable book? ; Movable books have a story to tell ; The eighteenth century and the arrival of fun ; A century of innovation ; Pictures ...

From the interactive scientific books of the 13th century to a pop-up recreation of Harry Potter's magical world, movable books have educated and entertained readers for centuries. Now, two exhibits ...