Movable books are an innovative area of children's publishing.
Commonly equated with spectacular pop-ups, movable books have a
little-known history as interactive, narrative media. Since they
are hybrid artifacts consisting of words, images and movable
components, they cross the borders between story, toy, and game.
Interactive Books is a historical and comparative study of early
movable books in relation to the children who engage with them.
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh focuses on the period movable books became
connected with children from the mid-17th to the early-19th
centuries. In particular, she examines turn-up books, paper doll
books, and related hybrid experiments like toy theaters and
paignion (or domestic play set) produced between 1650 and 1830.
Despite being popular in their own time, these artifacts are little
known today. This study draws attention to a gap in our knowledge
of children's print culture by showing how these artifacts are
important in their own right. Reid-Walsh combines archival research
with children's literature studies, book history, and juvenilia
studies. By examining commercially produced and homemade examples,
she explores the interrelations among children, interactive media,
and historical participatory culture. By drawing on both
Enlightenment thinkers and contemporary digital media theorists
Interactive Books enables us to think critically about children's
media texts paper and digital, past and present.
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