Our two Cadettes got to partake in a Book Artist workshop done at the Topeka library with other troops from the area. The girls worked with Betsy Roe and Brea Black from the library and learned about how books are assembled, binding of different books and created their own book covers using a marbling affect on card stock paper. 
One book style that the girls learned is called accordion fold. This is where you fold paper like an accordion and slip the ends together to expand the book. You are able to write, draw on any of the "pages" front and back to tell your story. These are usually a small booklet, for small pictures or short phrases.
The girls learned how to do two different bindings for booklets.One is the Pamphlet stitched which works well for books with just a few pages. This is an alternative to stapling in the middle when pages are folded in half. The other style is simple Japanese stab binding. This is where you can stack different types of paper; ie textured, colored, different weights of paper; that are stacked on top of each other cut the same size.
The girls learned a lot about what goes into binding different books. It will be interesting to see if they use one of these bindings for a project in school.
