Thar She Blows Books
Illustration and paper engineering for an unpublished set of 4 popup books with a Mother Goose theme, titled "Fiddle Figs Cats & Pigs - A Mother Goose Pop-up Library." Each book focuses on one theme - riddles, teasers, jingles and the last book folds out to become Mother Goose's fairy tale home.
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Fiddle Figs Cats & Pigs was designed as a boxed set of 4 small popup books.
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An early version of this concept was a very large popup book with elaborate popup mechanisms. Below is the proposed cover for that version.
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