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Naughty tricks
Lothar Meggendorfer. Bubenstreiche: ein Verwandlungsbilderbuch. Eßlingen & München: Schreiber, 1899. One of Meggendorfer's ingenious moving books, showing the pranks of children.
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October 26, 2010
Beinecke Library, Shirley Collection, 1890s, book, buben, children, meggendorfer, movable, moving, naughty, strieche, trick
Wonder Movies
A curious production from the early 1920s intended to mimic motion in a book for young readers. Each "movie" is viewed by turning back successive panels on a scored page to reveal new scenes. While a bit awkward to manipulate, the idea works well enough to entertain and delight. Wonder movies by Victor M Earle; Illustrated by Benjamin Seielstad (Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page, 1923).
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May 26, 2009
Beinecke Library, Shirley Collection, 1920s, book, children, juvenile, motion, movable, movie, picture
The Peculiar Fish
A movable scene from Dean's Living Strewelpeter [ca. 1890]
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June 5, 2008
Beinecke Library, Shirley Collection, book, dean's, movable, strewelpeter
Fly, Robin, Fly!
A newly acquired pop-up/moving flap book (1946, World Publishing). : A scene with flap closed:                                                      and opened:  And the last page:
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August 17, 2007
Beinecke Library, Shirley Collection, airplane, book, children's, flap, flight, movable, pop up, popup
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