CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2012
"More playful work from a rare master of abstract design, both rich enough and sturdy enough to support repeat visits. (Pop-up/picture book. 5-10, adult)"
The panjandrum of paper engineering offers six dazzling new constructs--each hiding a handful of small cutouts or printed shapes to find.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2012
"Children who enjoy watching colors at play may be drawn in, and the album also makes a rewarding technical study for developing artists. (Pop-up/picture book. 5-9)"
With help from flaps, slotted wheels and die-cut holes, a frog and, later, a clown named Kasper introduce a weepy snail to the wonders of color shades, blends and combinations.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 6, 2012
"Waddell properly trumpets the importance of sharp observational skills, but he doesn't provide budding detectives with much impetus to develop them. (Pop-up/nonfiction. 8-10)"
A superficial look at the basics of criminal forensics and investigation, addressed to young Sherlocks but more likely to draw soul mates of the great detective's resolutely sedate brother Mycroft.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 11, 2012
"A real pleaser for the diapered brigade: bright but not busy, unfussily interactive, predictable but never monotonously so. (Pop-up/counting picture book. 1-3)"
With faultless simplicity Horácek squires viewers from the titular giraffe, "[t]wo striped zebras" and "[t]hree speedy cheetahs" up to "[t]en swimming fish."
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 11, 2012
"An effervescent companion to Maisy's Show (2010). (Pop-up/picture book. 2-5)"
Budding musicians and singers can join in the rehearsals as Maisy gets her band and backup chorus together for a house concert.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 11, 2012
"A quick planetary once-over, more suited to browsing than sustained study but with a level of detail likely to leave children intrigued rather than overwhelmed. (Pop-up/nonfiction. 6-9)"
Mountains, buildings and other landmarks--not to mention the entire Scandinavian peninsula--rise up dramatically as each single-continent spread opens in this dense but legible atlas.
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