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as thought, he whipped out a revolver and fired in rapid succession at the bull. The beast took the first bullet and rolled over, leaving a passerby exposed to the others. The man was hit and fell down dead.
Catechetical Scenes Ann Montanaro East Brunswick, NJ Between 1955 and 1964, the Salesian Catechetical Centre in Kowloon, Hong Kong, produced 17 pop-up books designed to be used to teach Roman Catholic doctrine. The books are a series called "Catechetical Scenes" and they are interesting both because of their text and their unusual pop-up and mechanical illustrations. The books are each 54 x 7% inches with 44 pages and about 20
double-page pop-ups per volume. Rev. M. Coerezza, S.D.B. is the author of series. Each book was issued with an identical illustration on the dust jacket showing an Asian man and woman using the popups to teach five Asian children. According to the dust jacket, there were 18 volumes published in 6
languages.
"Did the herdsman commit mortal sin? He certainly did not. He did indeed kill the man; and he knew that killing a man is gravely forbidden. Yet he committed no sin. For he did not mean to kill him. He had no intention to do so. Therefore, there was no deliberate consent at all. Without a full or deliberate consent no mortal sin is committed." The pop-up consists of three layers of stand-up illustrations cows, trees, and the man each pulled up by a tab adhered to the adjacent page. (The tabs are made from scrap paper and some have Chinese characters printed on the paper.) The bull, which is printed on a sliding tab, can be pulled from side to side and when the bull gets close to the man, the wounded bystander is visible. There are four pages of questions in the back of the book, and three of the five questions for this lesson are: "When something is not meant, is it a mortal sin?" "What kind of consent must there be?" and "If we are in doubt about a sin, whom should we ask?" -
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the 18" title, The Law of Love 4, does not appear to have been produced. The muted, colorful, internal illustrations depict didactic Biblical tales, sacraments of the Catholic church, morality tales, and the punishments resulting from wrongful acts.
These books were teaching aids and an example from Confession, part 1 shows how the book was designed to be used. A pop-up pastoral scene shows cows grazing on a hillside and a bull charging a man holding a smoking gun. The lesson is entitled "Deliberate Consent." The text reads "Some cattle were one day grazing on pasture land. The day was fine, and all about was quiet and leisuresome. Two children were playing together over beyond the herd, and the herdsmen sat under the shade of a sycamore.
"Suddenly for no apparent reason a bull ran amuck and bore down at a mad rush upon the children. By good luck one of the herdsmen was on the alert. Quick
Several of the early titles, Confession, part I and Confession part 2 & Extreme Unction, and The Blessed Eucharist published respectively in 1956 and 1957, have one or two string-pulled movable illustrations which are not found in later works. In -
Confession part 2, the
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lesson on "Sacramental
penance" shows a priest at an altar
aw
absolving a man of his sins. In a
cellophanecovered, diecut window on
the behind the priest the text reads "Satisfaction,
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