I've submitted this book as part of a BEST challenge so you can vote for it if you like it! Or vote for whichever you like best - by visiting the BEST blog. There are some really great entries in the challenge this year.
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So, this is a Time for Patience. A handmade pop-up book to celebrate the procrastination innate in leaf raking. No sense starting until every leaf has fallen.
It is a 2-page pop up. So the first pop-up spread is a tree, barren of leaves, except for one at the top.
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The second spread is a wider scene of that same tree and a couple others, with the rake and the raker and the fallen leaves, all waiting patiently for that last leaf to fall.
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I also collected a few leaves and made some rubbings which are used on the covers of the book. Leather spine.
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