Marion Bataille, ABC3D (Roaring Brook Press, 2008)I will say right up front (which is a silly thing to start off a one-paragraph review with, but there you go) that I ended up very reluctantly taking points off this delightful little tome because of its fragility; it's a book you're going to want to enjoy a great deal, but you'll be forced to keep it on the shelf rather than on the coffee table if you want it to last any length of time at all. But the pop-ups, transparencies, slidy bits, etc. are all lovely little marvels that will keep you nicely entertained; I just wish the publisher had made it a bit more durable (this is entirely possible, viz. review below of Jungle Animals). *** This book looks absolutely amazing if you watch the preview that is running online for it. I had high hopes that it would be this years "Gallop" (an interesting, inexpensive gift-ish book high on visual flair), but I was pretty disappointed when it arrived in the bookstore I work in. Some of the pop-ups are unexpectedly fussy and fragile. A couple of pages even have difficulty closing without crushing the pop-up once you have opened it, meaning that our display copy was trashed within an hour of its arrival in the store. It looks great, but the functionality aspect is a little lacking.
What do You think about ABC3D (2008)?
It was neat to see how the different letters were made. Very intriguing!
—Annaniicole
Very clever popup book. It ends with the letter Z.
—StevoRea
