Lauren Stringer

Illustrator

         Author

1. ✦Ansill, Jay. Mythical Beings, (Origami Today), Harper Perennial, 1992.
   

2. ✦  Araki, Chiyo. Origami Activities for Children, Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2002.
   

3. ✦  Ayture-Scheele, Zulal. Beautiful Origami, Sterling Publishing, 1990.
   

4. ✦  Ayture-Scheele, Zulal. The Great Origami Book, Sterling Publishing, 1987.
   

5. ✦  Beech, Rick. The Origami Handbook: The Classic Art of Paperfolding in Step-by-Step Contemporary Project, New York: Hermes House, 2002.
   

6. ✦  Biddle, Steve and Megumi. Origami: Inspired by Japanese Prints. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Viking, 1998.
   

7. ✦  Boursin, Didier. Origami Paper Animals, Firefly Books, 2001.
   

8. ✦  Engel, Peter. Origami from Angelfish to Zen. Dover Publications, 1994.
   

9. ✦  Honda, Isao. The World of Origami. Japan Publications Trading Company, 1965.
   

10. ✦  Kenneway, Eric, Complete Origami An A-Z of Facts and Folds, with Step-by-Step Instructions for Over 100 Projects, St. Martin’s Griffin, 1987.
    

11. ✦  Kasahara, Kunihiko. Origami Made Easy. Japan Publications, Inc., 1973.
    

12. ✦  Kitamur, Keiji. Origami Treasure Chest, Graph-Sha Ltd., 1991.
    

13. ✦  Kneissler, Irmgard.  Super Simple Origami, Sterling Publishing, 1999.
    

14. ✦  La Fosse, Michael G., Making Origami Animals: Step-by-Step  PowerKids Press, 2002.
    

15. ✦  Lang, Robert. The Complete Book of Origami: Step-by-Step Instructions in Over 1000 Diagrams, Dover Publications, 1989.
    

16. ✦  Lang, Robert. Origami Animals, Crescent Books, 1992.
    

17. ✦  Lang, Robert. Origami in Action: Paper Toys that Fly, Flap, Gobble, and Inflate! St. Martin’s Griffin, NY., 1997.
    

18. ✦  Montroll, John. Animal Origami for the Enthusiast, Step-by-step Instructions in Over 900 Diagrams, Dover Publications, 1985.
    

19. ✦  Montroll, John. Bringing Origami to Life, Dover Publications, 1999.
    

20. ✦  Montroll, John. African Animals in Origami, Dover Publications, 1991.
    

21. ✦  Nguyen, Duy. Fantasy Origami, Sterling Publishing, 2001.
    

22. ✦  Petty, David, Origami 1-2-3, Sterling Publishing, 2001.
    

23. ✦  Rojas, Hector. Origami Animals, Sterling Publishing, 1993.
    

24. ✦  Smolinski, Jill, 50 Nifty Super Animal Origami Crafts, Lowell House Juvenile, 1998.
    

25. ✦  Takahama, Toshie. The Complete Origami Collection, Shufunotomo, Japan Publications, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997.
    

26. ✦  Temko, Florence. Paper Pandas and Jumping Frogs,  China Books & Periodicals, 1986.
    

I fell in love with the poems in Fold Me A Poem before I knew anything about origami. So before I could even begin to sketch out my ideas, I made a trip to my local library and checked out a huge pile of books on origami. I quickly learned that there wasn’t just one way to fold a frog or a dog, so I folded many versions of each animal from each poem until I folded the particular one that seemed to speak to me and inspire a painting. Here is the list of books I used to teach myself origami. They range from beginning to advanced. If you are like me, you will start with easy folds, then fall in love with folding paper and then you won’t be able to stop until you find suddenly you are an advanced folder! Bravo!

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