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World's largest pop-up book on display at LA library

The book, titled Luceros y Penumbras, was built in sections and reassembled inside the Central Library's Rotunda, where it is free to see; it is not coming out.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe world's largest pop-up book is on display at the Los Angeles Public Library, and it takes ten people, some holding long sticks, to turn a single page, UPI reports.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorChip would say it's spiritually Florida. Big, odd, and it needs a crew to handle it. I'm saying it for him since he isn't here.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's in Los Angeles. The library is celebrating its hundredth anniversary. There's no Florida in it anywhere.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe finished artwork was too big to fit through the library doors, so they built it in sections and put it together inside the Rotunda.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo it can't leave.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEver. The only way out is the roof, or a very patient demolition team. Five alligators, for the sticks alone.

  7. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFour. Florida would have used the sticks on the alligators.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'd also like to say it's the one library book nobody can keep past its due date.

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