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Flaps and wheels in Italian children's books in the 1930s and 1940s
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https://doi.org/10.57579/2025.1Keywords:
Flaps, Italian movable books, WheelsAbstract
Flaps and volvelles are the first devices of paper engineering in movable books, with a long tradition in technical and scientific fields. In Italy, between the end of the 19th century and the mid-20th century, their presence in the extracurricular sector is quite strong, while it is underrepresented and slow to appear in contemporary children’s books, for which it takes on new forms. The contribution, in addition to questioning the possible reasons for this delay, presents a review of titles aimed at children published in Italy in the 1930s and 1940s that contain flaps or wheels, mostly of local creation.
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