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Toy and movable books

Here are entered works on books that incorporate movable components intended to be manipulated by the reader. Works on the movable components of toy and movable books, such as flaps, dials, or tabs, or parts assembled into three-dimensional shapes, are entered under Interactive prints.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Illustrated books

• Toy and movable books -- Specimens

• Manipulative books
• Movable books
• Moveable books
• Novelty books
• Participation books
• Slide-and-peek books

• Blue Beard (images of pantomime toy book, in various configurations; New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1890), contrib. by Charles Perrault (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Hole Book (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1908), by Peter Newell (illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org)
• King Winter (Hamburg: Gustav W. Seitz, ca. 1859), illust. by Gustav W. Seitz (page images at LOC)
• Pastime Pictures: A Book of Transformation Scenes, by F. E. Weatherly and Clifton Bingham (illustrated HTML here at Penn)
• The Rocket Book (New York: Harper and Brothers, c1912), by Peter Newell
  • page images at loc.gov
  • DjVu at archive.org
• Alice in Wonderland Rhymes (Stampkraft book, with poster stamps applied to the relevant pages; New York: United Art Pub. Co., c1915), by Helen H. Anspacher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Jungle Friends (Akron et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1905) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Twelve Magic Changelings (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1907), by M. A. Glen (page images at LOC)
• The Wizard of Oz Waddle Book (New York: Blue Ribbon Books, c1934), by L. Frank Baum, illust. by W. W. Denslow
  • page images at HathiTrust; no cardboard cutout pages
  • blog post with 4 of the 6 cardboard cutouts, from another edition
• Ten Little Niggers (with tops of pages in silhouette shapes; New York: McLoughlin Bros., c1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Little Niggers (with cutout page shape; New York: McLoughlin Bros., c1897) (page images at Florida)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Prints and Books: Informal Papers (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926), by William Mills Ivins (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Iconography of Don Quixote, 1605-1895 (London: Printed for the author at the University Press, Aberdeen, 1895), by Henry Spencer Ashbee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects (Londen: Methuen and Co., 1902), by Alfred W. Pollard (page images at CMU)
• The Library (London: Macmillan, 1881), by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson and W. J. Loftie, illust. by J. J. Wild
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New (third edition; London and New York: G. Bell and Sons, 1905), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• General Index to Illustrations: 22000 Selected References in All Fields Exclusive of Nature (Boston: F. W. Faxon Co., 1931), by Jessie Croft Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Twenty-Six '76 (1976), by Johanna Drucker (page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)
• A, Apple Pie, by Kate Greenaway
  • page images and HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at Princeton
• A, Apple Pie (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., 1886), by Kate Greenaway (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• An Alphabet of Animals (London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Leicester, UK: Winks and Son, 1865) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Alphabet of Goody Two Shoes: By Learning Which She Soon Got Rich (London: Printed For J. Harris and Son, 1820) (page images at Princeton)
• Barnum and Jumbo's ABC (London and New York: F. Warne, ca. 1882) (page images at Princeton)
• A Bizarre Company (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1913), by G. M. C. Fry (page images at Princeton)
• Bowden's A.B.C. Book of India (Mumbai: A. C. Bowden, ca. 1900), by Arthur Charles Bowden (page images at Princeton)
• The Children's Moral Alphabet (Kettering, UK: J.H. Waddington, 1879) (page images at Princeton)
• The Child's Alphabet, Emblematically Described and Embellished by Twenty-Four Pictures, Brought Into Easy Verse, for the Tender Capacities of Young Readers: The Whole Contrived to Allure Children Into the Love of Learning (Glasgow: Printed by J. And M. Robertson, 1805) (page images at Princeton)
• Grandmama Goodsoul's ABC of Eatables (London: Read, Brooks and Co., ca. 1880), by Brooks & Co. Read (page images at Princeton)
• The History of A Apple Pie (London: G. Routledge and Co., ca. 1858) (page images at Princeton)
• An Illustration of Osbourne's Pictorial Alphabet (London: C. Osbourne and Messrs. Ackerman and Co., 1835), by Charles Osbourne (page images at Princeton)
• The Mother's Picture Alphabet (London: S. W. Partridge and Co., ca. 1887) (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Picture Alphabet (1850), by Oliver Spafford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Scripture Alphabet for Children (London: J. Harris, 1824) (page images at Princeton)
• Take Your Choice! or, A Peep at my Playmates (London: Printed for J. Harris and Son, 1822), by Pat Playful (page images at Princeton)
• Tom Thumb's Alphabet (London: W. Darton and Son, ca. 1836) (page images at Princeton)
• The Twins' A B C (London: Liberty and Co., and Lawrence and Bullen, 1904), by Olga C. Morgan, illust. by Edmund Evans (page images at Princeton)
• The Twins' A B C (London: Liberty and Co., ca. 1904), by Olga C. Morgan, illust. by Edmund Evans (PDF at Toronto Public Library)
• The Adventures of ABC (London et al.: R. Tuck and Sons, 1900) (page images at Princeton)
• The Alphabet; And, Easy Words of One, Two, and Three Syllables (Cobb Toys third series #1; Newark, NJ: B. Olds, 1835), by Lyman Cobb (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Childs First Book (New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1875) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Goldfish at School: or, The Alphabet of Frank the Fisherman (London: Hodgson and Co., 1823) (page images at Princeton)
• R. Cruikshank's Comic Alphabet (London: Darton and Clark, ca. 1840), by Robert Cruikshank (page images at Princeton)
• The World at Home ABC: An Alphabet of Nations (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1903), by Will Gibbons (page images at Princeton)
• Goop Tales Alphabetically Told (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1904), by Gelett Burgess (page images at Princeton)

• Mediaeval Latin and French Bestiaries (UNC Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures #33, revised edition; Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1962), by Florence McCulloch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bestiary: A Book of Beasts (New York: Putnam, 1960), ed. by T. H. White (page images at Wisconsin)
• Physiologus: A Metrical Bestiary of Twelve Chapters, by Episcopus Theobaldus, trans. by Alan Wood Rendell (PDF files at bestiary.ca)

• The Book of Emblems (in Latin and English), by Andrea Alciati (illustrated HTML with commentary at mun.ca)

• Passional Christi und Antichristi (in German; woodcuts sometimes attributed to Hans and sometimes to Lucas Cranach; 1521), by Martin Luther, contrib. by Philip Melanchthon and Johann Schwertfeger, illust. by Hans Cranach and Lucas Cranach (page images at HathiTrust)

• When Phantasie Takes Flight: The Art and Imagination of Arthur Rackham (online version of U-Florida exhibit catalog; ca. 2014), ed. by Suzan A. Alteri and John Ingram (illustrated HTML at Florida)
• Little Ann and Other Poems (London: George Routledge and Sons, ca. 1883), by Jane Taylor, Ann Taylor, and Adelaide O'Keefe, illust. by Kate Greenaway (page images at LOC)
• Little Ann and Other Poems (annotated based on the first edition (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883)), by Jane Taylor, Ann Taylor, and Adelaide O'Keefe, illust. by Kate Greenaway (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.