Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader

by Hannah Field

Book Overview

A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Victorian novelty picture books reshape the ways children read and interact with texts

The Victorian era saw an explosion of novelty picture books with flaps to lift and tabs to pull, pages that could fold out, pop-up scenes, and even mechanical toys mounted on pages. Analyzing books for young children published between 1835 and 1914, Playing with the Book studies how these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517901774
• ISBN13: 9781517901776
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 8.9"