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 elaborately designed works raise
questions not just about what books should look like but also about
what reading is, particularly in relation to children's literature
and child readers. Novelty books promised (or threatened) to make
reading a physical as well as intellectual activity, requiring the
child to pull a tab or lift a flap to continue the story. These
books changed the relationship between pictures, words, and format
in both productive and troubling ways. Hannah Field considers these
aspects of children's reading through case studies of different
formats of novelty and movable books and intensive examination of
editions that have survived from the nineteenth century. She
discovers that children ripped, tore, and colored in their novelty
books-despite these books' explicit instructions against such
behaviors. Richly illustrated with images of these ingenious
constructions, Playing with the Book argues that novelty books
construct a process of reading that involves touch as well as
sight, thus reconfiguring our understanding of the phenomenology of
reading.
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