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The Christmas Story. Robert Sabuda. 2016. Candlewick. 12 pages. [Source: Review copy]
First sentence: Long ago, in the town of Nazareth, there lived a young woman named Mary. She was soon to marry a carpenter named Joseph. God sent an angel to her with a message: "Hail, Mary! The Lord is with you. Do not be afraid. Soon you will have a baby, named Jesus, who will be the Son of God." "Let it be as you have told me," Mary said. "I am the servant of the Lord."
Premise/plot: The Christmas Story is Robert Sabuda's newest pop-up book. The story may be familiar, even too familiar, to some. But it's a story that is timeless. The pop-ups are quite detailed and though done simply--only in white and gold--they are indeed 'exquisite.'
My thoughts: I liked it. I do think Robert Sabuda's pop up books are more for older readers--like adults--than younger readers. But I think if young readers are careful, they can get a lot from this story as well.
Text: 4 out of 5 Illustrations: 4 out of 5 Total: 8 out of 10
Manville Fenn Wild animal stories a panorama picture book circa 1898
Pop up worlds in the form of mechanical books have been around since the 13th century but most were scholarly works intended for adults. Towards the end of the 18th century pop-up books for children began to appear. The very early pop-up books are now mostly beyond the reach of all but the deepest pockets, but you can still build a wonderful collection by concentrating on newer examples.
A selection of traditional nursery rhymes with one pop-up posy at the very end. Award winning artists Roy Gerrard provided the nostalgic Edwardian style illustrations. Published by Victor Gollancz in 1991.
Janet and Anne Graham Johnstone illustrated this little treasure of a book. Published by Dean in 1976, it does have some wear and tear but full details and condition report can be found by clicking the link above.
Follow the lives of two rabbits and their fast expanding brood as they handle a different seasonal challenge each month. A cold February turns into a wet April followed by a warm July and so on until the family of two gradually grows to be a family of two hundred and eighty eight! This extraordinary picture book is packed with gorgeous details and novelty elements, including a baby record book, a carrot recipe book and a surprise pop-up at the end.
Charles Perrault first published his collection of classic French folk tales more than 300 years ago, included among them was the story of Puss In Boots. In this adaptation, the story has been retold by Christopher Logue with illustrations by Nicola Bayley. 1st edition pop-up book Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd in 1976.
In Puss and Boots, a poor miller dies and leaves his youngest son nothing but a cat. The son is none too happy about it, either; Once I've eaten my cat and made a muff out of the fur, I'm sure to starve, he says. But what a legacy the bequeathed cat turns out to be! The cat in tall boots creates a new identity for the youngest son complete with fine clothes, fields of wheat, a castle stolen from an ogre, and in the end, the respect of the king and the hand of the king's daughter.
The coming of Mammals - 65 million years ago the last of the dinosaurs died out, and small mice like animals came creeping out of the forests. These were early mammals - and without the dinosaurs to fear, they soon began to grow and evolve into a great variety of creatures. This book shows some of the largest mammals of the past, all of them now extinct. Eight pop-ups, paper engineering by Keith Moseley.
Little Boy Blue published in 1982. This one is not so much a pop-up more a press-out concertina style.
Will you wake him? No, not I. For if I do he's sure to cry. Press out the figures, stand them up and watch the nursery rhyme come to life. 6 figures to press-out including little boy blue, the sheep in the meadow and the cow in the corn.
It’s interesting to think these inexpensive little books could well be the antiques of the future. Thanks for looking, have a great week.
Just before I go, I thought you would like to know the PBFA (Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association) is offering free tickets to their children’s, illustrated and modern 1st editions book fair to be held at the Hilton London Olympia Hotel. Further details here or Download your complimentary ticket here
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I am very excited about my interview with paper engineer extraordinaire, Bruce Foster. Read the interview here. If you love pop-up books like I do, you will be in awe of the painstaking process it takes to make a book like America’s National Parks: A Pop-Up Book.
Rather than attempt to animate Jean-Jacques Sempé’s inimitable linework, the title sequence for the movie adaptation of Le Petit Nicolas instead translates his drawings into a brilliant 3D pop-up book. And it’s gorgeous.
The talented creators of beloved pop-up books including versions of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy as well as the Encyclopedia Prehistorica books have created the first in what I assume will be a series of Encyclopedia Mythologica titles, Gods & Heroes.
The book features six main page-spreads, each of which contains its own title. The spreads feature a central pop-up as well as three (in two cases, four) smaller, additional pop-ups, usually folded into a smaller "page" applied to the main one. In the case of the page about Greek heroes, however, there's a pull-tab that provides information and illustrations on twelve different heroic deeds, most of which were performed by Herakles (Hercules).
The first main spread (Lords of the Two Kingdoms) includes an introduction to what mythology is as well as information on ancient Egyptian gods and myths. The second (The Classical Pantheon)features an eye-popping Mount Olympus and information about various of the Greek gods, along with pop-outs about Atlantis. The third spread, which is entitled Mortal Champions of the Old World, features a pop-up reproduction of the Argo, Jason's ship, the aforementioned pull-tab that flips 12 short scenes and stories, and a small pop-up page that holds the Trojan horse and an even smaller pop-up with the story of Icarus, showing him as he fell to earth. Just earlier this week I read a poem that involved Icarus - I wish I could recall where - that made the point that "Icarus also flew." But I digress. You can see the ship and close ups of some of the other art in the book at Robert Sabuda's website.
The fourth major spread (Kingdoms of the Frozen North) features a large central pop-up of Thor, wielding his hammer in a most muscular way. Additional pop-ups include the Valkyrie, a marvelous representation of Yggdrasil, and a cross-dressed Loki. The penultimate spread is devoted to Mighty Eastern Dynasties featuring ancient gods of Japan and China, as well as Gods of Oceania: the central pop-out on the page is of the Polynesian goddess, Pele. The final spread also holds two titles: Great Spirits of the New World, about North American Native American myths and legends, and Empires of Blood, devoted to the Aztecs, Maya and Inca people.
Encyclopedia Mythologica: Gods & Heroes would make an excellent addition to classroom libraries, to the shelves of anyone interested in mythology, and to fans of pop-up books. The attention to detail in this books is such that even the insides of places that you don't necessarily see are well-finished. In the story of Japanese storm god Susano-Wo and his sister, the sun goddess Ameratsu, for instance, he shuts her inside a cave. If you pay close attention and open (or close) the small page very slowly, you can see Ameratsu back in the cave, but when the page is actually open so that you can read it, she is obscured. Similarly, the back of Zeus's throne is finished in the elaborate central pop-up on the page about the Greek gods, even though there's no good reason for people to be peeking in sideways to figure that out. (Yeah, I know I did it. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.)
A hearty thank you to the good people at Candlewick for sending me a review copy of this title. It has already given my teen-aged daughters and me hours of enjoyment.
Edited to add: The poem I referenced with respect to Icarus is Failing and Falling by Jack Gilbert, which was featured on The Writer's Almanac two days ago. It begins "Everyone f
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Matthew Reinhart and Robert Sabuda have created an awesome new pop-up book titled Encyclopedia Mythologica: Gods and Heroes. Now it's rare that I get too crazy about pop-up books, and most teachers in fact would consider them gimmicky and not really worth their time. But check out the video preview provided at the Candlewick site (be sure to go full screen), and I think you'll agree: this is one really impressive book! Students in the middle grades are really drawn to mythology, so this is one more great rendition that should be added to every classroom library.
A great extension of any of these books would be for students to create their own pop-ups. Not as easy as it sounds, unless, of course, you have a resource such as Sabuda's own web site which features printable templates for over two dozen pop-ups. Once students get the hang of the physics behind the pop-up, they're likely to invent their own variations. These can serve as great presentation formats for seasonal poetry, short stories, or book reports, or for creating cards for a special occasion.
When life attacks in the form of a nasty stomach virus that takes us down one by one, we do what any projectile-vomiting blog writers would do - delegate to the 5-year-old, who got sick first and is already recovered. She perused Mommy, a charming pop-up book written by Maurice Sendak (of Where the Wild Things Are fame), Arthur Yorinks and Matthew Reinhart:
She had the following to say:
Translation for those not initiated in kindergarten penmanship:
"I like the drawings because they are pop-ups!
And also because they are monsters!
Read this book called Mommy!"
You've been told! We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming just as soon as everybody stops reenacting the puking scene from The Exorcist.
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I know I’m a big kid, but I love pop-up books. I have loved them since I was a kid and they still make me giggle with delight whenever I open them. So I was thrilled to see an older video pop up (pardon the pun) on the Wall Street Journal website with an interview with pop-up-book artist Robert Sabuda.
The pop-up books Robert and his team create are wonderful, and I hope they never go away. Due to their intricate nature, pop-up books are made by hand, which, of course, makes them very expensive. In today’s economy, publishers are thinking twice about the money they put into each and every book they produce. I wouldn’t be surprised if pop-up books are a category publishers are shying away from now because of their expense in this uncertain market.
But that would be a shame. Books have an amazing ability to transform readers to other worlds, but nowadays they face stiff competition for kids’ attention from videogames and movies. But pop-up books can give picture books — and their stories — an added excitement and wow factor for youngsters that could encourage their continued love of books of all kinds — pop-up or not — in some kids who might have moved on to more interactive entertainment.
WordPress won’t let me embed Flash videos, so the Wall Street Journal interview is accessible here. (Oohh! That Narnia one looks beautiful.)
Here’s another interview with Sabuda from YouTube:
What do you think of pop-up books? Did you have a favorite as a child?
My family didn’t own any pop-up books when I was a kid, but a little girl down the street had several. She was quite a spoiled little princess and difficult to tolerate, but these beautiful books sweetened my mandatory play dates with her. She was a bit younger than I, so I would read the books to her and make up additional stories to go along with them. I still love pop-ups and just bought one as a Christmas present for an adult friend.
A Classic Collectible Pop-Up: The Sound of Music. By Rodgers & Hammerstein and Lindsay & Crouse. Adapted by Bert Fink. Illustrated by Dan Andreasen. Paper Engineering by Bruce Foster. 2009. Simon & Schuster. October 2009. 14 pages.
If you love the Sound of Music, then this really is a must-have. I love, love, love the Sound of Music. So this book made me giddy. Very, very giddy. In the must-show-to-all-my-friends way. This book brings all your favorite movie scenes to life. Each scene pops-up to reveal in wonderful detail the oh-so-magical story of Maria. (It would be hard to pick a favorite spread. Though the twirling Maria from the opening spread is a wonderful representation of how right this one is.) The story has been adapted and is told within the book--very cleverly in my opinion--in the mini-pop-ups/flaps. All the lyrics are included as well. Which was very nice.
As someone who loves the Sound of Music, I have been eyeing this one for a while. I really liked the demo you added---it helped me solidify my idea of buying it as a gift for my girls -even though I might like it more. :)
Baruzzi, Agnese. 2009. The True Story of Goldilocks. Illustrated by Sandro Natalini. Candlewick Press. (August 2009)
What I liked best about this one was the fact that it was a pop-up book. (Well, partly a pop-up book. It's definitely more in the interactive family of books than not. With flaps to open, wheels to turn, and a page or two that pops.) Are you curious about this so-called "true story?"
In this version, Goldilocks is beloved of Mama and Papa bear. Well, mostly. She's a good child, well-behaved. Baby Bear is a different story. He's a brat. End of story. Goldilocks to set out to reform him, to teach him some manners. But in the end, she learns something from Baby Bear as well...how to be a brat.
While fractured fairy tales are nothing new, they can be great fun every now and then.
Baruzzi, Agnese. 2009. The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood. Illustrated by Sandro Natalini. Candlewick Press.
Little Red Riding Hood is used to being popular--the nicest person in the forest. But all that changes when she gives lessons to the Big Bad Wolf. He writes her a letter--very sincere, but containing many misspellings--begging her to help him out. He wants to reform. So the lessons begin. And they work! They really work. But now that he has what he wants, Little Red gets mighty jealous! Can she un-reform this big baddie?
Crowther, Robert. 2009. Pop-Up House of Inventions: Hundreds of Fabulous Facts About Your Home. Candlewick.
Every now and then a book surprises me. Such is the case with Pop-Up House of Inventions. I expected it to be at least somewhat interesting. What I didn't expect was to find it entertaining and fascinating and oh-so-cool. Some pop-up books are more thrilling than others. Some are simple. Some are complex. Some are intricate. Some are amazingly intricate. Such is the case with Robert Crowther's Pop-Up House of Inventions. Each pop-up spread offers something--many somethings in fact--to delight and educate. Take the kitchen, for example, there are cabinet doors to open, refrigerator doors to open, an open/close oven with a pull-out tray of cookies, and a swishable washing machine with a wheel tab so you can make the clothes spin. Some of the kitchen facts include: first pop-up toaster, 1927; first microwave, 1945; the first electric clothes washer was patented in 1907, the inventor, Alva J. Fisher, named it "Thor." And that's just a handful from one page of the book. Rooms explored in the book include the kitchen, the living room, the bathroom, the bedroom, and the garage. Among my favorites? I love that you can pull the tab on the shower to reveal a man singing in the shower. The bathroom mirror transforms to show a woman before-and-after make-up. Hint, she looks better before. But in the process, I learned that lipstick is at least four thousand years old and that Egyptians were all about eyeshadow.
I think this is a book anyone can enjoy--kids and adults alike.
Originally published in 1981, Little Monsters is a monster-filled pop-up book. You may (or may not) remember Jan Pienkowski's other pop-up book, Dinner Time, which I reviewed several months ago. (See that review here.) I liked both books. I can appreciate the work that went into creating the intricate pop-ups. But in the case of this book, there were two few pop-ups. Five pop-up spreads. Then again, I noticed that the suggested retail price is only $7. So maybe it's not too few after all...considering.
I liked it. I didn't love it. But I did like it. I especially liked the little monster who is very rude.
Jan Pienkowski's Dinner Time quite honestly confused me. On one hand, I enjoyed the pop-ups. Taken out of context, the pop-ups are quite fun and playful. Easy to manipulate. The frog, for example, the opening pop-up is just fun. You can make him "speak" based on how open or closed the book happens to be. The art is enjoyable as well, for the most part. I'm not sure if I would have found it fun or a bit scary as a kid--I spooked really easily--but it's well done. It's the premise of this one that confuses me. Not really. Just a little bit. It's the food chain done pop-up style. And not the food chain you might be expecting. Vultures eat frogs. Gorillas eat vultures. Tigers eat gorillas. Crocodiles eat tigers. Sharks eat crocodiles. Everybody but the shark is a meal. And the pop-ups show these greedy jaws--sharp, pointy teeth included--in action. The food chain does exist. It is a part of life. But whenever a wildlife documentary happens to be on, I'm one of those squeamish sorts that can't bear to see animals eating other animals. The chase. The capture. The blood. The devouring. And it's not like this book has any of the blood and guts. It's simple and straightforward enough.
"Tiger said, "I'm going to eat you for my dinner." And he did."
One word- Dinosaurs! Children will love this informative and fun pop-up book. I'm always amazed at the paper-fold engineering in pop-up books, and this one is great with the large center display and mini booklet fold outs on each page. Not only are the pop-ups fun, but the text is very informative and it's a great reference book on dinosaurs for all of those dinosaur questions you're bound to encounter.
The shortlists for the Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards have been announced. They're long shortlists, so I'll just direct you to this press release from The Canadian Press.
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The talented creators of beloved pop-up books including versions of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy as well as the Encyclopedia Prehistorica books have created the first in what I assume will be a series of Encyclopedia Mythologica titles, Gods & Heroes. 
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by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart; Candlewick, 2005
My family didn’t own any pop-up books when I was a kid, but a little girl down the street had several. She was quite a spoiled little princess and difficult to tolerate, but these beautiful books sweetened my mandatory play dates with her. She was a bit younger than I, so I would read the books to her and make up additional stories to go along with them. I still love pop-ups and just bought one as a Christmas present for an adult friend.