Naughty tricks

Lothar Meggendorfer. Bubenstreiche: ein Verwandlungsbilderbuch. Eßlingen & München: Schreiber, 1899.

One of Meggendorfer’s ingenious moving books, showing the pranks of children.

Wonder Movies

A curious production from the early 1920s intended to mimic motion in a book for young readers. Each “movie” is viewed by turning back successive panels on a scored page to reveal new scenes. While a bit awkward to manipulate, the idea works well enough to entertain and delight.

Wonder movies by Victor M Earle; Illustrated by Benjamin Seielstad
(Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page, 1923).

The Peculiar Fish

A movable scene from Dean’s Living Strewelpeter [ca. 1890]

Fly, Robin, Fly!

A newly acquired pop-up/moving flap book (1946, World Publishing).

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A scene with flap closed:                                                     

and opened:

 And the last page: