Pop Goes the Weasel!

There are 25 pop-up nursery rhymes in this book by the author of The Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek Alphabet Book; that's about three tabs, flaps or other generous feats of paper engineering per page. The cow jumps eternally over the moon, a goofy-looking Humpty Dumpty crashes to the ground as many times as readers like, four-and-twenty blackbirds leap out of the pie, and London Bridge collapses wildly into the water. The selection may be a standard one, but Crowther's zany illustrations, even without pop-uppery, make this bouncy, lively fare. Ages 3-8. (October)