Main entry:

Anderson, Kelli, artist, author. art aut

Title & Author:

This book is a planetarium : and other extraordinary pop-up contraptions / by Kelli Anderson.

Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Chronicle Books LLC, [2017]
London : distributed in the UK by Abrams & Chronicle Books Ltd.
Paris : distributed in the EU by Média-Participations.
©2017

Description:

1 volume (4 unnumbered leaves with 6 pop-up contraption arts) : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
"Additional help from Kyle David Olmon & Daniel Dunnam" -- [Page four] of cover.
Consists of: Four leaves of cardboard plates (six leaves, if counted both cover) with 6 pop-up contraption paper arts attached, each pop-up glued to one side of two plates.
This book is an instrument -- This book is a decoder ring -- This book is perpetual calendar -- This book is planetarium -- This book is a speaker -- This book is a spiralgraph.

Summary:

"What can paper do? This book concisely explains--and actively demonstrates with six functional pop-up paper contraptions--the science at play in our everyday world. Consider this book an interactive field guide to the invisible: play with aspects of our world that are usually abstractions, like light, sound, time, and space" -- [Page four] of cover.
"In this unique interactive book, each turn of the page reveals a different, lo-fi-but-fully-functional paper gadget. Inside its pages live: a constellation-projecting planetarium, a strummable musical instrument, a geometric drawing generator, a perpetual calendar, a message encrypter and decoder, and a speaker that amplifies sound. By reducing familiar gadgets down to just paper, this book shows that a lot can -- indeed -- be done with very little. Because each pop-up works (despite exhibiting no apparent technology), the book enables an intimate, firsthand vantage point on invisible structural forces at play in our world. To satisfy readers' curiosity about how something so simple can do so much, the book concisely explains how humble paper taps into the larger phenomena of light, time, soundwaves, and mathematics in order to make lo-fi magic."--Artist's website, https://www.kellianderson.com/books/planetarium.html, viewed 05/07/2026.

ISBN:

9781452136219 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1452136211 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Science Miscellanea Juvenile literature.
Engineering Miscellanea Juvenile literature.
Pop-up books Specimens.
Toy and movable books Specimens.
Paper art Specimens.
Artists' books United States Specimens.
Engineering Pictorial works.
Science Miscellanea.
Engineering Miscellanea.
Toy and moveable books Specimens.
Sciences Miscellanées Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Sciences Ouvrages illustrés.
Ingénierie Miscellanées Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Ingénierie Ouvrages illustrés.
Livres animés Spécimens.
Art du papier Spécimens.
Paper art
Engineering
Pop-up books
Science
Artists' books

Form/genre:

movable books.
pop-up books.
miscellanies.
illustrated books.
artists' books (books)
Toy and movable books
Illustrated works
Pop-up books.
Juvenile works.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Specimens.
Artists' books
Livres animés.
Miscellanées.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Livres d'artistes.

Added entries:

Olmon, Kyle, contributor.
Dunnam, Daniel, contributor.
Speaker, a spiralgraph, a decoder ring, a perpetual calendar, a musical instrument.
This book is an instrument.
This book is a decoder ring.
This book is perpetual calendar.
This book is planetarium.
This book is a speaker.
This book is a spiralgraph.

This book is a speaker
This book is a spiralgraph
This book is a perpetual calendar
This book is a musical instrument
Book that becomes other things

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318689
Call No.: 318689
Copy: 1
Status: Available