1st Edition

Interactive Books Playful Media before Pop-Ups

By Jacqueline Reid-Walsh Copyright 2018
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

Movable books are an innovative area of children’s publishing. Commonly equated with spectacular pop-ups, movable books have a little-known history as interactive, narrative media. Since they are hybrid artifacts consisting of words, images and movable components, they cross the borders between story, toy, and game. Interactive Books is a historical and comparative study of early movable... Read more

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Preface

Part I: Historical and Cultural Contexts and Theoretical Issues

Chapter 1. Texts and Contexts for Movable Books

Chapter 2. 17th- to 19th-century Children’s Domestic Practices: "Activities" and "Rational Recreations" as Historical "DIY Culture"

Part II: 17th- to 19th-century Turn-up Books: Religion, Morality, and Entertainment on Interactive Paper Platforms

Chapter 3. Movable Religious Lessons and Subversion by Design

Chapter 4. Allegorical Metamorphoses and Antic Transformations

Chapter 5. Child-made Religious Turn-up Books: Child Interactors as DIY Producers

Part III: Enacting Domesticated and Fantastical Adventures: 19th-century Movables before the "Stand-up" Book

Chapter 6. Fuller Paper-doll Books: Playing across Gender and Genre

Chapter 7. English Toy Theaters: Staging Miniature Melodramatic Spectacles

Chapter 8. Elaborate Movable Books in Two and Three Dimensions: Activity and Agency Enhanced and Restricted.

Chapter 9. Conclusion: Contemporary "Pop-up" Books: Activity and Agency Reformulated

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Jacqueline Reid-Walsh is Associate Professor of Education, Language & Literacy Education, and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University, US.