To paraphrase Alice, what is the use of a book without pictures? or words? In this case the use is that this giant blank pop-up book is empty, waiting for children to scamble over it’s oversized pages and create their own book by literally stepping into it.
Possibly the maddest thing I’ve ever done, I spent the day at Hachette Children’s books (being very well looked after as usual), cutting up sheets of foam board and trying to create pop ups, not only for the first time in my life but also on a vast scale. Isambard Kingdom Brunel I am not… but it nonetheless feels like a minor miracle of (paper) engineering!
The idea was given to me by Dylan Calder, director of London’s newest and brightest Children’s Book Festival – the Pop Up festival. Dylan felt the one thing he didn’t have was a pop up book. Well he has now! So if you have bored children on Sunday 10th July, bring them along to the Brunswick centre, near Kings Cross, where I’ll be installed from midday, and help me create the biggest and best pop up book ever. There’s a story to tell and pictures to create and fun to be had. CLICK HERE for further information on the Pop Up Festival. Oh, and it’s all FREE.
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