MOVABLE STATIONERY February , 1995
Volume 3 Number 1
Wild Honey, the new quality imprint from
The Frankfurt Book Fair 1994 Theo Gielen
Visiting this year's Frankfurt Book Fair
we were
able to see the movable and pop-up books now are mostly called "interactive books" the publishers so do 1996. To they planning to produce in 1995 and must sell the rights to enough countries to get a minimum of 50,000 copies to produce a pop-up book -
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for an acceptable retail price.
These books are so popular nowadays that over 400 titles were offered and shown at the fair. However, not all will get into production for a number of different reasons. I remember from the 1993 fair a very nicely designed and paper engineered d and one (and highly erotic!) dummy of Thousan l Frida Kahlo beautifu or the never published; nights, not book d, or at produce I, Mexico) (CIDCL pop-up lease postponed for copyright reasons; the Pienkowski title One red hat, never published since the mechanism didn't function; and The Romans pop-up, andl not published as the paper engineer pot pregnant didn't return to her profession.
O Ottenheimer, had their first publication on display: folda with ted illumina nativity story holy night, an out creche, published subsequently by Victor Books.
They also showed the dummies of Gusenberg's to Christmas, a pop-up book by Nancy Willard (sold book sound a The t pop-up Harcour Brace): pond song, illustrated by Debbie Leland; The night before Christmas, an advent sticker pop-up book illustrated of Edgar by David Wenzel, and a pop-up version Alan Poe's The raven done in black and white (!) after the engravings by Gustave Doré.
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The following describes just a small selection of
those books viewed as collectable for their quality their originality. This does not include the well known fanfolded pop-ups by Ottenheimer (offering 132 ams (38 titles), published and 51 new titles), Grandre 70 new Disney titles. Brown Watson, and about
To start with, some new firms: Pangea Editores from Mexico showed their first pop-up book: Teotihuacan, based on their well known big city of the
Aztecs and paper engineered by Wayne Kalama. They also announced a series of twelve additionai titles on the great civilizations of Middle America: The Maya, The Aztecs, Monte Albdn, Tenochritlan, etc.
CIDCLI, also from Mexico, showed some artwork
from their third production - after Cristobal Colon and - El Milagro del Splendor of ancient America of the on Virgin Guadalupe. Tepeyac,
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Intervisual Books Inc. from Santa Monica, California had by far the biggest stand, although not was a offering the most interesting titles. On display s Pelham' David and Miller revised edition of Jonathan to sold classic The facts of life (over 550,000 copies date!); a thiree-dimensional Edwardian dol! house by the Meggie Bateson and Herman Lelie, following this before s by carousel similar eight-room published
oodle couple; a new Kees Moerbeek title Cock-a-d a funny animal with sounds; book a mooo!, pop-up Skeleton cioset by Steven Guarnacci; a nice fivespread Fairy tale theater by Jean Claverie, featuring four fairytales to act out with character puppets enclosed; a promising Mary Engelbreit's pop-up book; a spectacular Fairy tale village, a play set that opens to a dimensional village of four famous fairy tale houses; Mummies, a pop-up book including a pull-out and The Egyptian collar that children can wear; Hobbit pop-up book. A nice innovation was the new David A. Carter title Love Bugs, a heart-shaped popOn the whole, up book with a foil-stamped cover. Intervisual Books offered some 85 new titles, releases. including about twenty new Disney
Much more interesting for collecting purposes were the titles designed and paper engineered by Keith Moseley and Dick Dudley from Compass Productions. Show were a highly innovatively with a new engineered Great inventions pop-up s move; a comical made machine the mechanism which a shed house, pop-up history I know a little white-wa of the privy (to be published in 1995 by Mad