‘Movable books’ is the term that best encompasses the wide range of paper-engineered books, and includes those with pop-up mechanisms. Movable books epitomise the work of art in book form and date back many hundreds of years – the first know example was created in the thirteenth century – and it is still very much alive today. This paper looks first at the movable books created by Lesley Kaiser, which range from her Naughty Nineties prototype for a commercial version to one-off artists books.It then looks at how Lesley has introduced paper-engineering into her teaching at AUT University. It uses as case studies the first-year and second-year Graphic Design papers History, Culture, Context 1 and Elective Project 11. Lastly, it explores the question ‘How might old and new technologies be combined to retain the best of analogue and digital books, and how might movable books retain value in a world of growing digitally interactivity.’