I'm so glad I saw Kelli Anderson's This Book Is a Planetarium: And Other Extraordinary Pop-Up Contraptions when I did! I'm adding it to my list of best books of the year (coming soon!) because it's one of the most creative books I've ever had the pleasuring of reading and experiencing.
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Readers open this book to find different experiences on each spread, from an infinite calendar to a speaker to a musical instrument that needs strumming. Each experience shows not only how these feats of engineering work, but also how paper can make a book, well, more than just a "book." The engineering of this book takes the idea of "pop-up" to a whole new level. Each spread is interactive and either provides or encourages the use of extra tools to participate with the experience. For example, readers need to bring a cell phone in order to light up the planetarium, which requires that users turn on the flashlight on their phones and place it underneath the pop-up in order to cast constellations onto the ceiling. Or the instrument page, which provides a guitar pick for readers to pick up and strum the strings that have been sewn into the book like a guitar. This book walks the finest of lines between being a book to read and an event to experience.
This Book Is a Planetarium: And Other Extraordinary Pop-Up Contraptions published from Chronicle Books in October. It's quite the perfect holiday gift!
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