Making books that fly, fold, wrap, hide, pop up, twist, and turn : books for kids to make

Diehn, Gwen 1943- (Author).

Summary: Presents instructions for making various kinds of books including those that carry messages across space and time as well as those that save words, ideas, and pictures.

Record details

ISBN: 18873740232
ISBN: 9781579903268
ISBN: 1579903266
ISBN: 9781579900236
ISBN: 1579900232
Physical Description: 96 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
print
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Asheville, N.C. : Lark Books, ©1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Tools and materials: Setting up a book center -- Writing your message -- Illustrating your ideas -- Books that carry messages across space and time: Gypsy wagon: accordion-folded choose-your-own-adventure book -- Time capsule: personal time capsule with a stab-binding -- A 3300-year-old time capsule -- Magic carpet: map-folded storybook -- Tool kit: how-to book with a coptic binding and foldouts -- Pages of silk, covers of ivory -- Traveling museum: research report in an origami form -- No talking, no eating, and no checking out the books, either! -- Books that celebrate and mark things: Deep map: book about a place using a Japanese ledger binding -- Movie: scroll book that illustrates a process -- The Dead Sea Scrolls -- Journal companion: pamphlet-bound notebook in a polaire -- Books that travel with their owners -- Fireworks show: holiday or special event book using pop-ups in a glue book -- Special effects -- Books that save words, ideas, and pictures: Treasure chest: family history book, accordion-folded, with small pamphlet-bound inserts -- Travel journal with secrets: tetratetraflexagon journal that unfolds in two mysterious ways -- Famous travel journals -- Secret garden: garden logbook with a ring binding -- Medieval herbals -- Picture gallery: pamphlet-bound sketchbooks with a secret compartment -- The case of the mixed up sketchbooks -- The schraubthaler or coin book -- Books that help us think and make sense of experiences: Dos a dos: book with two points of view, pamphlet-bound, back to back -- Labyrinth: autobiography or biography using an accordion cut into three sections -- Imaginary world: hardcover, single-signature book -- The biggest, the smallest -- a collection of record-breaking books -- Exquisite corpse: game book with split pages and stab binding -- Artists' books -- Starburst: collection book bound in a lotus book form.