The Next MBS Conference-2025
Please join us in St. Louis, MO for our next conference, September 25-September 28, 2025. There is an exciting program prepared and the more the merrier. The MBS conference may also be attended virtually. Be there! Log onto the MBS website, movablebooksociety.org, or the Facebook page, for more information.
The Popuplady Honored by the Center for Book Arts, NYC
It was truly an honor to be recognized by the esteemed Center for Book Arts in New York City on October 23, 2024. Truly, it was pop-up and movable books that had the honor and I gratefully accepted it.
The Popuplady & The Ephemera Society
On March 15, 2024, 3:30PM EST, The Popuplady talked about Animated Paper: Movable Books, Ephemera, and Art at the Ephemera Society conference.
Animated Advertising: 200 Years of Premiums, Promos, and Pop-ups
at the Grolier Club’s Second Floor Gallery, New York City, is now closed. But you can “visit” virtually.
Tour the exhibit with The Popuplady.
Attend the panel discussion Let’s Talk about Animated Advertising with Ellen G. K. Rubin [The Popuplady] giving a brief history of pop-ups and advertising, Erika Piola [librarian specialist in graphic design & metamorphics], Ethan Goller [President of Structural Graphics] & Isabel Uria [Paper engineer], both on how movable ads are conceived and made.
Over 170 movable paper advertisements, starting in 1824, were presented in the exhibit. A full color catalog, with movables, is available from the Grolier Club distributor now. More information and video images will be available at grolierclub.org. The Popuplady would love to share this collection with you! See all 199 catalog objects here! Animated Ads from the exhibit! And while your exploring pop-ups, check out The Popuplady’s YouTube channel.
The Media caught the excitement: Antiques and Arts Newsletter, Fine Arts Magazine, ARTnews, The New York Times’ New York Today, The Daily Heller by Steven Heller and an appearance on NY1News and more.
The Popuplady has a YouTube channel! Visit and see videos from her pop-up book and ephemera collection. Enjoy!
MBS Global Zoom conferences. Don’t miss them! The next Zoom conference TBA.
A to Z: Marvels in Paper Engineering
In celebration of its 25th year, MBS published A to Z. The publication has 26 individual pop-up cards paper engineered by artists from around the world and is housed in a specially designed box with an additional pop-up by Bruce Foster. There are very few books available.
A new Movable Book Society publication!
The Movable Book Society Meggendorfer Awards: Celebrating Paper Engineers, Book Artists & Pop-Up Books 1998-2018. Now available at Amazon. With full-color photographs, follow the Meggendorfer Prize winners from the award’s inception. This is a prize in itself for pop-up book lovers!
“Pop-ups from Prague: A Celebration of the Graphic Artistry of Vojtěch Kubašta (1914-1992):
From the Collection of Ellen G. K. Rubin”
It is out of print and available in limited supply from The Popuplady.
The Grolier Club Kubašta exhibit is over! But you still can experience it by reading what the NY Times had to say and see close-up images of some Kubašta items.
Hear The Popuplady talk about Kubašta’s art and life followed by a panel discussion with Dagmar Kubaštova & Robert Sabuda—the Prince of Paper.
Welcome to the World of Pop-up and Movable Books!
The Popuplady is a writer, collector, curator, lecturer, and lover of the genre known as Pop-up and Movable Books. She invites you to explore her website to discover and experience the world of movable books and movable ephemera.
In this newly up-dated website, The Popuplady will do her best to bring you solidly researched information as well as Trivia and Jokes [About Pop-ups].
Did you know that
- movable books date back to the 12th century
- every movable book is hand-assembled, even today
- movable books were originally made for adults and still are
- the artists who animate the illustrations are called “Paper Engineers”
- there is a Society for movable booklovers like the Popuplady?
Showcased are videos for visitors to dynamically see what the books do best, MOVE!! Examples may be from around the world [Multimedia] or from The Popuplady’s vast collection [My Collections].
Here, at Popuplady.com, you will find what is going on right now in the Popup World, what the Paper Engineers are working on [Links] and how you can repair and maintain your books.[About Books].
Finally, find out who The Popuplady is, what is the source of her passion, and how she can share it personally with you [The Popuplady]. Make www.popuplady.com your resource for all areas of the Pop-up Book World. Thanks for returning. I hope you visit often.
What’s New Around the World
When an author, paper engineer, publisher, or any person who was prominent in our pop-up world passes on, we want to pay them tribute. We do so at Obituaries.
When announcements are no longer timely and there is still information on the Web. Check out PAST EVENTS to see what you missed.
The Movable Book Society
Join The Movable Book Society to stay current on all things Pop-up.
Explore links to various videos and learn and explore this movable world.
My Collection/Articles
The Popuplady “shops and shares.” See items from her collection and articles she has written about them.
Some of these links may take you away from The Popuplady. Please come right back!
For Sale
From time-to-time, The Popuplady will recommend or make available a new book. Take a look!
In My Life
The Popuplady tells you about herself and take a peek into some of her personal favorites.
Thank you, Ken Ooi, who designed this website, and Joseph Munson and Jake Bendickson of HighPower Data Solutions for bringing me over to WordPress. It really does take a village!
