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| Peter Pan: A Classic Collectible Pop-Up | 
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| Creator: Robert Sabuda
Publisher: Little Simon
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $18.38
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 7522
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 14
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8.4 x 2.8
ISBN: 0689853645
EAN: 9780689853647
ASIN: 0689853645
Publication Date: November 4, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new Book, ALL days Low Price !
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Product Description
Readers will delight in this retelling of the classic story of Neverland, pirates, and flying. Robert Sabuda's elegant text and paper engineering give new life to favorite charcters like Tinkerbell, Wendy, Michael, and John, and, of course, Peter Pan. Sabuda's beautiful pop-ups are further complemented by full color illustrations that pull readers even deeper into the magical world that is Neverland.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
You'll believe in fairies, too November 23, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Oh, the cleverness of this book. It creates a fanciful world of its own. It would be a treasure for anyone to own, young or old. Especially for those who refuse to grow up.
Each of the six page spreads has an amazing pop-up in the center as well as a collection of smaller pages--each with more pop-ups--that tell the story of Peter Pan. Altogether there are 28 pop-ups. It's an awfully big adventure.
The first spread is a tour de force, the nighttime cityscape of London from above. You have to look twice, but the swirling clouds hide mermaids, an Indian princess, Mr. Smee and Captain Hook. The moon shows Peter's young profile. It's stunning, and moving. Imagination and adventure are literally tucked in the clouds.
The book itself is a full two-and-a-half inches thick, and constructed with super-heavy-duty paper. With a bit of care it will last many many years. The full-color artwork is loose and expressive, with bold black outlines and an almost woodcut style. The dreamy mood it evokes fits the story's flights of imagination.
Delightful details are everywhere. On the mermaid page the scales and a mirror are metallic silver. The pop-up of the crocodile who finally eats Captain Hook has a silver hook deep in its throat. The pirate ship unfurls to become longer than the book itself.
Other pop-up gems include:
600 Black Spots: A Pop-up Book for Children of All Ages
Birthday Bugs: A Pop-up Party
Blue 2: A Pop-up Book for Children of All Ages
Horton Hears a Who Pop-up!
One Red Dot: A Pop-Up Book for Children of All Ages
Wonderful! November 6, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
The book is filled with a multitude of ingenious pop-ups by the king of paper engineering, Robert Sabuda. There are many new mechanisms to be found in this book, for example: a dimensional bed with several children snuggled in -or diving in, and with a string across one end that holds items of clothing; a ship which telescopes out so that it is actually longer than the page it folds into! The ship has a little trouble collapsing down flat again, but will do so with a little gentle encouragement. I would not recommend this treasure of a book to be used by a child without supervision, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Enjoying it with a child will assure that a little part of the adult involved doesn't have to grow up - at least for as long as this book works its Peter Pan magic!
Pop - up Pantasia November 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Thank you Sara for introducing me to this fantastic artist and engineer.
He is astonishing and I am so glad, at 66, to meet someone who indulges all my grown up childishness. This book is a marvel and a wonder. It is astonishingly beautiful to open a page and look down into the depths of a London that is alive and swirling with mystery. The clouds slowly reveal themselves as fragments of all the central characters in the book, almost as if they were actively hiding and exposing themselves in life. The engineering is exquisite to mushroom the mystery as the pages slowly are drawn apart, like a curtain opening to reveal the hidden backdrop of all the action; but this IS the action and it sucks you swirling down into the play.
Each pop-up is worth hours of exploration, and then of course you can read the words and return to the three dimensional art to see what you may have gleaned and what has been added. There is so much to stir your imagination and bring the words alive. The art is alive and rustling and stirring. It creaks and twitters and sways to unseen breezes and magical puffs. Then, oh so clevelry, it becomes its own backdrop to miniature books within the book, each mini-pop-up art evoking new contexts from the main and adding layers of meaning to the whole. This is a man made universe to jump into like a rabbit hole. These are not simple entertaining distractions to a story; they embody the story with a faith and clarity that only the most vivid imagination could create; and then they stimulate that imagination to riot.
Joy of Peter Pan pop up December 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A wonderful, exciting book for both young and old. I have many many Rober Sabuda's pop up. Each gives great pleasure. Have gifted many Robert Sabuda's Christmas pop up to friends. My granddaughter gets each book for the collection I started for her. Mr Sabuda is a genius. kz
Collectible but Not for Little Kids November 3, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
We took this away from our two boys as they were not gentle with it, but they are all boy and not really collectible kind of kids.
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