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Making Books that Fly, Fold, Wrap, Hide, Pop Up, Twist, and Turn

All-around best book for exploring alternative forms of the book. It�s aimed at kids, but works for anyone creative.

-- KK

Making Books that Fly, Fold, Wrap, Hide, Pop Up, Twist, and Turn
Gwen Diehn
1998, 96 pages
$14
Lark Books
New York
Amazon

Excerpt:

Starburst
Do you have a collection of poems, jokes, stamps, pressed flowers, feathers, cartoons, or photographs? Here's a book that can hold your collection, and can give each flower or poem the chance to burst forth on center stage! This kind of book is called a lotus book, but it also looks like a starburst.


Above: Gypsy Wagon fold out book. Below, an Exquisite Corpse


 








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