It’s hard to believe the quintessential graduation/new baby book, Dr. Seuss’s Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, is celebrating the big 2-0. It’s also hard to believe how relevant the story is, given that our nation’s unemployment rate is hovering around 10% and so many people are stuck in a professional purgatory. “You can get so confused that you’ll start in to race, down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place … “Now the ultimate carpe diem book is going pop-up. Oh, the Places You’ll Go Pop-up! goes on sale today. (There’s also a pricier limited edition available.) The man behind the book’s pop ups, veteran paper engineer David Carter, is the author of 80 pop-up books, including the Bugs in a Box series. Carter’s and Robert Sabuda’s intricate paper sculptures, which leap out at us from the pages, are part of the recent pop-up explosion. But these books, which seem to spring to life, have actually been around for centuries. Carter clues us in: A group of collectors called The Movable Book Society claims that a Benedictine Monk named Matthew Paris created the first pop-up in the 1200s.-Lothar Meggendorfer, a German illustrator and writer, is considered the father of modern pop-ups. Back when Meggendorfer was creating his visual feasts in the 1800s, pop-ups were called movable books. The books weren’t called pop-ups until the 1930s. It can take up to a year to complete one pop-up book. So remember: Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting. So … get on your way!

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