"A Christmas Visit" A Homemade Pop-Up Book


 


A Homemade Pop-Up Book 

Pop-up books are a Christmas tradition.  We have pop-up versions of The Night Before Christmas, Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and The 12 Days of Christmas. To add to our collection I made our own Christmas pop-up, A Christmas Visit.  We'll page through it.

The front cover ...


 Front endpapers...

 

 

Title Page...

 

 

"The Walsh's house is very near," with Rockford Tower and Mount Salem Church popped up beyond our house...

 


"And through the transom we can peer," looking through a stained glass bordered transom window you can see the globe ceiling lamp in our library...

 

 
 
 
And now inside the library, "Peace, Joy, and Love are present here"...


 

 

"We must come back again next year"...

 


Back endpapers...

 

And back cover...


 

A detailed presentation of  "The Making of A Christmas Visit" is posted in my Google Drive at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mYz9ivsWS2vp44hAwTUWP6vPHGuwzjbt?usp=sharing

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