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 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.
"a speaker; a spiralgraph; a decoder ring; a perpetual calendar; a musical instrument".
"A book that becomes other things, by Kelli Anderson""--Back cover.
"Additional help from Kyle David Olmon & Daniel Dunnam"--Back cover.
"Book that becomes other things. This book is a planetarium ..."--Artist's website, https://www.kellianderson.com/books/planetarium.html, viewed 05/07/2026.
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.
"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.
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:

"A book of pop-up contraptions, all made of paper, and all actually useful. Includes a planetarium, a speaker, and other paper engineering marvels."-- Provided by publisher.
"What can paper do? This book concisely explains—and actively demonstrates with six functional pop-up contraptions—the scientific at play in 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."--Back cover.

ISBN:

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

Subject:

Science Miscellanea Juvenile literature.
Science Pictorial works.
Engineering Miscellanea Juvenile literature.
Engineering Pictorial works.
Pop-up books Specimens.
Paper art Specimens.
Artists' books United States Specimens.
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.
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.

Holdings:

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