The "pop-up" Pinocchio : being the life and adventures of a wooden puppet who finally became a real boy

Date:

©1932.

Author:

Collodi, Carlo, 1826-1890.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH C714 P67 1932 LOCAL

Publisher:

Blue Ribbon Books

Abstract:

One of the first in a series of pop-up books based on fairy tales, created as a collaboration between the publisher Blue Ribbon Books and paper engineer and illustrator Harold Lentz. ‡b Lentz "borrowed" some of the designs from the earlier Bookano series published in London, although it was Blue Ribbon which first introduced the term "pop-up." For more information on pop-up books, see the University of Virginia online exhibit "Pop Goes the Page: Movable and Mechanical Books from the Brenda Forman Collection" at http://explore.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/show/popgoesthepage/walkthrough

Physical Description:

96 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Custodial History:

LC copy is a copyright deposit: CIA 71993, Apr. 9, 1934. DLC

Notes:

Library's copy has illustrated title page. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

Blue Ribbon Books (NY), c 1932 ('patents applied for'); with 'pop-up' illustrations in color by Harold Lentz; [abridgment of Murray translation, ed. by Virginia Kirkus]; color illustrations on spine and both covers printed on paper over boards

Subjects:

Puppets Fiction and Toy and movable books Specimens

Genres/Forms:

Juvenile literature 1932. rbgenr, Toy and movable books. lcgft, Pop-up books. lcgft, and Illustrated children's books

Names:

Pinocchio (Fictitious character) Fiction