Abstract

This paper aims to highlight the pop-up techniques used by paper engineers in order to enhance the textual and iconic content of classic works, such as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince, based on the materiality of the book. Firstly, the pop-up elements used in the edition of O Principezinho, O Grande livro Pop-up will be numbered and described (Integral text listed and described by the Lisbon-based Editorial Presença, based on the keys offered by David A. Carter and James Díaz in 1999 and the examples inserted by David Carter in his own works 600 Puntos Negros and Ruido Blanco). Secondly, after specifying that the object-artefact books are more suitable for a competent, participative and accomplice reader, who is capable of unravelling the textual and visual play offered by Saint-Exupéry from the original edition, and of grasping the new visual reading in the pop-up, the proposal for the didactic (re)reading of O Principezinho is highlighted, since the meaning that the engineering of paper has brought to this classic narrative has been interpreted.