MAGICAL MOVABLE BOOKS
Exhibition and Workshop

Workshops for teachers, parents and groups of children.

The project's aim is to study the relationships between book and game, between written word and image from an educational point of view.
The teachers and publishers' attention towards the "active book" or "the game-book", especially in the Anglophone countries, has recently permitted to find and buy pop-up books which are of great interest not only from a cultural point of view , but also from an educational one. In particular pop-up books can be a very important educational instrument for children of 0-6 years old who are introduced to "reading" very soon. Moreover, pop-up books involve children from six years old onwards playfully, so that the learning of an ability becomes a game.

In our workshops the educational importance of these books will be analyzed even considering information about the authors, a brief history of pop-up books, their success when they were brought into trade and what now the pop-up book market can offer. Children will be introduced to the world of children's publishing through the presentation of some books and their techniques and the practical realization of some pop-up images.

Through some meaningful books (some original and others reproduced) the exhibition wants to show a path in the history of the movable and three-dimensional books starting from the optical games which were used to obtain particular visual effects in the first pop-up books of the second half of XIX century.
Some books are displayed in wooden and plexiglass cases, while others are on bookstands 
to read or to glance through. Visitors are accompanied along the exhibition with technical captions and information about authors, history,…

A particular attention is dedicated to the contemporary publishing of which the most important and interesting books are on display, so that visitors can analyze which are the main themes and their educational aims.
Another section is dedicated to the techniques of printing and assemblage of pop-up images through the exposition of different materials which show the main steps of the realization from the project to the ready pop-up image.
A particular reading area can be organized with books in Italian, French and German languages or just with simple images selected according the main technical realizations, images and themes in order to know which are the best productions of the publishing houses of this sector.

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