Pop-up and Movable Books Bored with books that just sit there offering nothing but words? Take a page from this University of North Texas site and enter the world of books that move. For decades, children have delighted in classic stories like "Puss in Boots" that roared off the page, but the history of movable books dates back hundreds of years. In the early 19th century, paper dolls Little Fanny and Frank undoubtedly provided hours of dressing fun for youngsters. Later in the century, dissolving pictures transformed one image into another and books with intricate mechanisms were almost too fragile for an eager child's hand ("Your fingers must be slow and kind/ And treat them well while using"). In the latter part of the 20th century, designers, paper engineers, and illustrators combined their talents to produce pop-ups that blasted interactive books into the Space Age. (in Literature)
