The Pop-Up Hand Shadow Book by Helen Hiebert

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“Gate fold with fold-out pop-up panels. Letterpress printed and laser cut paper pages, book board, cherry & plywood laser cut box featuring each animal in the book. Hand drawn graphite images by the artist. Housed in a cherry and plywood box with cut-outs of each animal featured in the book.”–Artist’s website.

The Pop-Up Hand Shadow Book features four illustrated animal hand shadow in a theatrical book structure. The animals are brought to life as the viewer plays with a mini flashlight (packaged with the book), casting shadows onto panels behind the pop-ups in the book. A verse about each animal, by poet Nora Robertson, appears on each page.”–Artist’s website.

Limited ed. of 50 copies, signed by the artist and poet. Colophon on accompanying card.

“The Pop-UP Hand Shadow Book was first designed at a workshop at the Penland School in the summer of 1996 and was editioned in Portland, Oregon during the summer of 2012.”–Colophon.

Link to Library Catalog