Pop up books first appeared in the 13th century. After hundreds of years of development, the pop up book has grown from a simple mechanism embedded in a book to a complex three-dimensional structure. Now people pay more and more attention to children’s education, and pop-up books have become their indispensable enlightenment books. Do you know a brief of pop up books?
In the 13th century, the prototype of pop up books appeared for the first time.
In the 13th century, to solve the tedious data query problem, a monk in England, Matthew Paris, combined religious festival dates with a rotatable paper plate and embedded the mechanism in the book for the first time. The prototype of the pop up books appeared.
In 1765, Robert Sayer introduced “lift-the-flap” to the realm of children’s pop up books.
In 1765, the Englishman Robert Schell introduced the technique “lift-the-flap” (flipping the book), which has been widely used in academic and educational circles since the Middle Ages, into the field of children’s books. As long as the pages of different parts are flipped, new images can be formed.
From 1840 to 1940, the golden age of pop up books development,
In 1871, because of the popularity of Christmas cards, Raphael Tucker & Sons widely used this technique in the field of children’s pop up books. Pop up book printing and publishing on various subjects became the mainstream of pop-up books at that time.
“Qimen Dunjia”, the first pop up books in China in the 1920s, was born.
In the 1980s, China had a set of three well-known “Flip Flip” books, “Seventy-two Changes,” which were to realize the transformation of Monkey King, Zhu Bajie, and Monk Sha by flipping the pages. magic.
The hand-made technology of pop up books is becoming more and more perfect, and the demand for pop-up books of “Journey to the West” is increasing, and the complete version of the story appears.
In 1930, American Blue Ribbon pioneered the concept of the “pop up books”.
In 1932, when Blue Ribbon in the United States made the first pop-up book for Disney, it pioneered the pop-up book concept and published a large number of pop-up books with traditional fairy tales as the theme. To this day, “pop-up” is still synonymous with pop up books in English.
In the middle of the 20th century, the development of pop up books was at its peak.
In the middle of the 20th century, the master of paper art in Munich, Germany, Lothar Meggendorf, pushed the pop up books to a peak. The original carousel-style technique gave the pop up books scene and model, making the pop up books an actual three-dimensional book. Known as “the father of three-dimensional book publishing,”
“The Wizard of Oz” pop up books won the 2002 “Meggendorf Award”.
It is a collector’s edition designed by Robert Sabuda, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the original fairy tale. He is the first winner of the Meggendorf Grand Prix and the only one to win it three times in a row.
The Development of Modern Pop up Books: complex and beautiful.
After a long period of development, the creativity of pop-up books has become more and more innovative. At the same time, pop-up book manufacturers from all over the world continue to work hard, and the pop-up book design is deeply loved by people. This exquisite and educational pop-up book has an increasing share of the children’s book market.
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