#MovableMondays: Welcome to the Neighborwood
"" is a pop-up from 2015 and is a great example of an artist book that has been transformed into a mass-market mainstream pop-up that anyone can purchase and enjoy, said Miriam Intrator, special collections librarian.
Award-winning artist and bookmaker Shawn Sheehy once again offers readers an impressive childrens book that takes an inside look into the engineered homes of several creatures.
Using dramatically unfolding pop-ups to introduce seven woodland animals with special construction skills of their own [This book is] a visually striking and enriching overview of animals living independently and as part of an ecosystem wrote a .
Originally crafted with handmade paper, as is true of Sheehys publication that was featured earlier in the series, a pop-up was later created into this mass market version available anywhere.
You could go into a bookstore and probably find [the book] yourself. The pop-ups illustrate the nests and homes constructed by insects and other creatures that you might find in your garden, [such as] the honey bee hive, said Intrator. He has found a way through paper engineering to bring those incredible constructions to life.
This earthy investigation of creatures homes concludes in an awe-inspiring final spread showing all of them together.
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