Wayward books are the ones that stand out, that are bold, playful, bizarre, quirky, zany, that bark and sometimes even bite the reader, the ones that examine and test the limits of a book. Through all these kinds of uncanniness, the book becomes a spectacular and attractive object, announcing its content and story through its form, even before it is opened.
Here are a few examples of wayward books: accordion book (foldout book/orihon/concertina fold/leporello), animated book (flip book/folioscope/kineograph), mechanically animated book (mechanical flip, book/kinematoscope), anaglyph books/stereoscopic drawings, tunnel book, moiré book, pop-up book/movable book, cadavre exquis/exquisite corpse, cut out illustration book, cube book, multifunctional book, miniature book, fat book, special colors systems book, silent book.