Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Guide to Diagon Alley and Beyond

by Matthew Reinhart, Kevin Wilson (Illustrator), Jody Revenson (Contributor)

Journey into the Wizarding World once more with this stunning new masterpiece from New York Times best-selling paper engineer Matthew Reinhart.

This exhilarating pop-up book invites you to relive the movie adventures of Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, and the Boy Who Lived—Harry Potter—as you explore London’s magical Diagon Alley like never before.

Inside, gorgeously intricate pop-up spreads render fan-favorite Diagon Alley establishments such as Ollivanders, Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, and the Leaky Cauldron, plus other locales like the Ministry of Magic and platform nine and three-quarters. Pull tabs allow fans to command the action—rescue a Ukrainian Ironbelly dragon from the depths of Gringotts, or help Harry navigate out of Knockturn Alley after a Floo powder mishap. Alongside each pop, discover facts and insights from the making of the Harry Potter films. Plus, the book opens into a displayable 3D diorama of all the pop-ups at once.

Packed with amazing moments and hidden surprises, Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Guide to Diagon Alley and Beyond is a landmark new pop-up book guaranteed to impress Harry Potter fans everywhere.

Genres: Harry Potter, Fantasy

10 pages, Hardcover

First published October 20, 2020

About the author

Matthew Christian Reinhart was born September 21, 1971 to Gary and Judith Reinhart in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The son of a farmer, his father Gary joined the Navy and so the family moved around the country, from Florida to Texas to Illinois to California to Virginia and then South Carolina. Judith and Matthew followed along, and soon to be joined by his little sister, Erin.

Art was always a huge part of Matthew Reinhart’s young life. Drawing pictures and making crafts were his favorite activities, in school and out. Matthew drew whenever and wherever he got the chance; in fact, school notebooks often had more drawings than notes! He loved drawing and reading about all creatures and animals so much, he drew them everywhere!

After high school, chose to study biology in preparation for medical school, thinking a career in art was too far-fetched. College life at Clemson University in South Carolina was busy for Matthew, but he was never really satisfied. Medicine was not his true calling, so along with his required science classes, Matthew took various art courses to build up his portfolio.

After graduating college, moved to New York City for a year before starting medical school. There, he met acclaimed children’s book author Robert Sabuda doing volunteer work together for a local community center. Robert's book, Christmas Alphabet had just released to rave reviews, and he convinced Matthew to follow his true calling. The following year, Matthew attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. as an industrial design major (concentrating in toy design).

Pratt was fantastic experience for him, but his initial dreams of being a toy designer soon transformed into paper engineer. After working with Robert on books like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, A B C Disney and Movable Mother Goose. Matthew made his first big break into the pop-up world with The Pop Up Book Of Phobias. Many books collaborations have followed, including a trilogy of New York Times best-selling Encyclopedia Prehistorica and the following series Encyclopedia Mythologica with Robert Sabuda, along with Mommy?, co-authored with the renowned Maurice Sendak and Brava Strega Nona with the ageless Tomie DePaola. His solo pop-up books include The Ark, Animal Popposites, The Jungle Book, Cinderella, The Pop-Up Book of Nursery Rhymes, and STAR WARS: Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy. He continues to work and live in New York City, cutting, taping and folding paper into pop-up masterpieces.

Reviews

[ZlaKacena · Rating 5 out of 5]

Taky úžasný ❤️

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spring 2021 (May);

The illustrated Harry Potter gift from my mother from this past Christmas that I hadn't pulled out and looked through everything in yet. While there's only so much reading to this one it is an absolute delight all-around setting up the pieces and pulling the tabs (and, oh my god, that page with The Train that is a full actually two page pull-out layout before the tabs even).

This was a delightful end cap to blitzing my way through the illustrated pieces today.

[Kari · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must have, amazing addition for all Harry Potter fans to add to their collection. Similar to the Hogwarts pop-up book, but this one features both Diagon Alley favorites such as Ollivanders, The Leaky Cauldron & Gringotts plus Weasleys Wizard Wheezes, the Ministry of Magic, Platform 9 3/4 and much more. The book opens up into a 3-D diorama with amazing detail and artwork.

[Elodie Srn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mon plus beau livre

[Charissa Ty · Rating 5 out of 5]

The paper architecture here is one of the most insane I have ever seen.

[Maëlle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Object collector magnifique 🫶🏻

[Martinka · Rating 4 out of 5]

Magical pop-up book with many secrets. Especially that one with additional characters hidden in book!!!
But one thing is disappointing - I accidentally torn some edges because paper is really fragile.

[kleinerpanda_ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dieses Buch lässt sich komplett aufklappen und man erhält dadurch ein Miniatur Modell der Winkelgasse. Es ist wirklich wunderschön und aufwendig gestaltet. In den verschiedenen umfassenden Bereichen kann man sehr viele Details entdecken und durch einige Falt-Mechanismen können bestimmte Aktionen ausgelöst werden.
Komplett auseinander gefaltet ist es allerdings ein wenig instabil und man sollte sehr vorsichtig sein, um nichts kaputt zu machen.