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A subtrope of [[Framing Device]]. A sister trope of the one where the book is shown [[I Should Write a Book About This|as it is being written]].

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Hoodwinked]]'' uses it not only to begin the film, but also for [[The Rashomon|each of the versions of the story as told by the various characters]].

* ''[[The Adventures of Mark Twain]]'' begins with a [[Playing With a Trope|variant]] where the contents of an opened storybook spill out and form the world.

* At the very beginning of ''[[Rock a Doodle]]'', just right after we see Chanticleer quitting his job at the farm of waking the Sun up with his crowing and moving to the city after the other farm animals make fun of him after seeing the Sun rise without him one day, the camera pulls back to show that the entire prologue (which is animated) is just a storybook a mother is telling to her young son Edmund (both played by live actors) when the evil owl is introduced for the very first time.

* Another [[Don Bluth]] film, ''[[The Pebble and The Penguin]]'', actually did this with a songbook.

* ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'': Disney's short subject versions take this to its logical conclusion by actually taking place in the book itself.

* ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'': The "Fractured Fairy Tales" segment used this, but played with it, with the fairy first having difficulty turning the pages due to her small size, then having the book slam shut on her.

* ''[[Chowder]]'': The opening credits, only instead of a storybook, it's a ''cookbook''

 

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