But then I noticed a mysterious sheet of paper – titled “Unfolding the Map” – taped to the back of the book with illos that looked like origami instructions. …the book is fun enough as a beautiful pop-up. Here’s the bit of the WinkBooks post that caught our eye: Yet this 5-page volume offers 33 pop-ups depicting the various castles, keeps and towers of the series, with a level of precision and complexity in papercraft that you don’t usually equate with such books.
But then we read Boing Boing’s reblogging of a WinkBooks post on this and realized we were in danger of missing out on one of the most ambitious commercial paper projects this year, all in the name of objectivity.Īs you’ve no doubt worked out, Game of Thrones: A Pop-up Guide to Westeros is similar to those pop-up books we remember fondly from our youth. Quite frankly we were prepared to give this one a miss, reasoning that our own love for HBO’s Game of Thrones shouldn’t enter into our choice of stories for PaperSpecs.
