bookbinding

An illustrated introduction to bookbinding structures, from simple to complex; with advice on tools and materials.

Explores the history of the book and how it has been housed and displayed.

Describes various techniques for designing books and illustrates a number of hand binding methods for use with children.

Provides illustrated, step-by-step instructions to create eight books, including a photo album, a lift-the-flaps, and an address book.

Explains basic book repair techniques useful to libraries with limited budgets, as well as alternative, more ambitious conservation treatments, covering paper cleaning and mending, water damage, mold and mildew, hinge and spine repair, and protective enclosures.

Anna, the daughter of an old-fashioned bookbinder who values skill over speed, tries to help her father when her mother goes into labor the night before an important project is due.

Readers learn how to create comic books along with twelve-year-old friends Lila and Ecco, whose love of comics leads them to take a workshop about making comics and graphic novels at the local comic book convention.

An introduction to book making that discusses its history, the different types and parts of books, binding techniques, supplies, tools, measuring, cutting, folding, professional bookbinders, and printing houses; and includes directions for six projects.

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.