Moth by Cat Amongst The Pigeons is “a shaped concertina that opens up at the folds at approximately a 45 degree angle. This means it opens up in a circular motion rather like apple peel.” There’s a nice explanation on of the book on her blog. See more of her artist’s books here.

Alison Woodward’s popup book starts as a box, opens to a sleeping unicorn then reveals what unicorns are made of. See all the pictures here. She also has a bird that you can “dissect” to reveal a prize.

Nice take on the exquisite corpse book idea, only using colors rather than animals or people. Found here. It was published in 1972 by Galerie de Varenne and the words on the back of the pages associate with the color. Here’s the description: “In the ways of the “Hundred Thousand Billion Poems” by Queneau, Raynaud has created a book whose pages, cut into three banners, can turn to the whim of the player and form on the right page, geometric compositions screen printed on the left short maxims on the theme of color (‘A red hen / we never do shine / turns green’).”

I wasn’t familiar with Hundred Thousand Billion Poems. Wikipedia says it “is a set of ten sonnets. They are printed on card with each line on a separated strip, like a heads-bodies-and-legs book, a type of children’s book… As all ten sonnets have not just the same rhyme scheme but the same rhyme sounds, any lines from a sonnet can be combined with any from the nine others, so that there are 1014 (= 100,000,000,000,000) different poems.” Here’s a picture

Cutting up a parent sheet that you’ve painted (on both side) and then making a book is quite satisfying… like this one by Traci Jones.