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Ann Montanaro East Brunswick, N.J.
Theo Gielen The Netherlands
We have chosen to describe a selection of the highlights and to omit the simple ones, being assured Mrs. Montanaro will list all in the future issues of Movable Stationery. The first stop was Intervisual Books (IBI) from Santa Monica, California. For twenty years (IBI) has been "the biggest company in the movable book market." Waldo Hunt, Chairman of the Board of IBI, the charming grand old man of the modern pop-up book, showed me the promising projects being offered to publishers. Above all others there was the new Pienkowski masterpiece: Botticellis bed and breakfast, a five-section carousel format book with over one hundred masterpieces from art history placed in the most amazing and amusing places: Botticelli's Venus in the shower, Michelangelo's David brushing his teeth in the bathroom, etc. No less spectacular will prove to be There are the voyages: 1966-1996. It is a pop-up Star Trek album by Charles Kurts, showing the history from the original Enterprise to the U.S.S. Voyager, looking at the outstanding ships and outposts of Star Fleet, their historic journeys and their
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Frankfurt Book Fair 1995
The marvelous Frankfurt Book Fair was held from October 11 to 16, 1995 with hundreds of thousands of books on display, some already in print and some yet to be published. Among them the recently published movables and pop-up books and, more interesting, the projects the packagers and publishing houses are preparing for 1996 and 1997. Although this year's fair was called a quiet one, we nevertheless spotted several hundred more or less interesting new titles m our common field of interest. Not as many as in 1994, but not less collectable!
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The Movable Book Society is on the World Wide Web at: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~montanar/ To get to the Web site you need a computer, access to the Internet, and Web browser software like Netscape or Mosaic. In two years the growth and use of the Web has expanded exponentially and the information now available ranges from complex technical documentation to absurd poetry to family reunions and to everything in between. Sites inform and entertain as well as confound. Constructing a "location" on the Web is much like preparing advertising copy. The author must determine what message is to be conveyed, determine how it will look, encode the content so it will display correctly, and select related information which will be useful and relevant to people who access the page.
The Movable Book Society site includes introductory information about the Society, a membership application form and a sample cover page from a back issue of
Movable Stationery. Related mformation changes routinely, Web sites are dynamic, new sites are continually being added and existing sites are expanded. Currently linked to the site are online pop-up exhibits at Rutgers University, the University of Southern California, and Indiana University; information about the history of children's literature; profiles of authors and illustrators, as well as sites by publishers and book dealers.
If you have access to the Web, visit The Movable Book Society site. Some of it is still under construction and all suggestions are welcome.
amazing crews, complete with a good hologram on the cover.
Slizzie and Brian Sanders developed The romantic garden. On a base page 20 x 30 inches, it has five bountiful gardens which fold out and pop up in glorious Continued on page 4 detail.
Thanks to Robert Sabuda for the new Movable Stationery masthead.