I was on a used book shopping spree with Kevin and Steve and stumbled across a gem on the dusty shelves of the craft section called Happy Origami by Tatsuo Miyawaka:
It was published in Japan in 1964, and not only is there a folding diagram showing you how to properly make each origami animal, there’s also a completed animal glued on the next page for you to remove and inspect if you so desire. Here’s an example, kids in animal hats at the disco:
Its charm is unbelievable! Each one of completed origami is actually in a two colour printed scene—It’s like every page is a little work of art!
You can see all the pages, (plus two other Tatsuo Miywaka books) on this Elementary School website.
Damn… that really IS cool. Nice find.
That was certainly a sweet score, Karissa. Ranks right up there with Crimson and Clover ‘87 and The Gospel of Superman. And thanks for linking to that site. Origami goodness abounds!