Robert Beers, Author, David A. Carter, Author, Tad Wise, Author New World Library $23.95 (7p) ISBN 978-1-57731-467-7
Wise, who brought us Tibetan prayer flags in a gift box with ""Blessings on the Wind,"" offers another treat for grownups who are interested in Tibetan Buddhist practice. This pop-up book features five colorful Tibetan altars, such as might be found
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Carter (The 12 Bugs of Christmas) gussies up his tried-and-true format in this pert pop-up, this time concealing his whimsical "bugs" behind Easter egg–shaped flaps. "Who's in the ruby red speckled egg?" asks the text on...
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David A. Carter, Author . S&S/Little Simon $11.99 (20p) ISBN 978-1-4169-5056-1
With zany irreverence, Carter’s bugs return in a pop-up book that features them popping out of a red schoolhouse, then hiding in colorful, themed boxes. Readers can discover “Who’s in the reading box?” by lifting the flap of...
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David A. Carter. Abrams Appleseed, $14.95 (12p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1912-7
Floral pop-ups appear on every spread in Carter’s seasonal follow-up to 2015’s Winter. A spiky water lily greets readers as they open the book, alongside a verse-like phrase that stretches over several pages: “Raindrops fall/ from the sky,/ pitter...
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David A. Carter, Author Little Simon $13.95 (10p) ISBN 978-0-671-86629-7
In sync with Valentine's Day's time-honored ``hearts and flowers'' motif, the creator of Jingle Bugs and Alpha Bugs fills this heart-shaped confection with sublimely silly Love Bugs, Rosebugs and similar species-all that's missing are lacy edges....
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David A. Carter. Abrams Appleseed, $14.95 (12p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1823-6
Carter brings readers to a rural, snow-covered landscape, identifying animals and elements of the scenery that include a snowman, yellow farmhouse, snowshoe hares, and white long-tailed weasels who reappear throughout. Among the pop-ups are a...
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David A. Carter, Little Simon, $7.99 (16p) ISBN 978-1-4424-0830-2
Carter's bugs are back, this time in celebration of color. Six bugs get their own pop-up spreads, while a spare rhyme scurries throughout: "Red Bug/ Yellow bug/ Orange Bug/ And Blue/ Green Bug/ Purple Bug/ Bugs of/ every hue." The colorful bugs—which
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David A. Carter. Scholastic/Ruckus, $12.99 (14p) ISBN 978-0-545-50009-8
Carter’s One Red Dot invited readers to find a red dot on each spread. This small-format pop-up book does the same, expanding the game to include dots of different colors and making use of wheels, tabs, flaps, and more. On the “Spot the yellow dot”...
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David A. Carter, Author Little Simon $14.95 (12p) ISBN 978-0-689-80119-8
Carter (Alpha Bugs; Love Bugs) adds to his insect oeuvre with this collection of 12 textured specimens. The body of a ``glittery bug'' is made from a lame-like material; tightly pleated cloth forms the back of a ``wrinkly bug''; heart-shaped ``velvet
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David A. Carter. Abrams/Tate, $25 (20p) ISBN 978-1-84976-101-7
Carter mixes the sculptural abstraction of White Noise (2009) with the seek-and-find aspect of Walter Wick's books in an intricate fusion of art, color, and paper engineering. Readers (with parental help, likely) can catch references to artists like
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David A. Carter. Little Simon, $12.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-4424-1962-9
Veteran pop-up artist Carter varies his formula a bit with this accordion-style book featuring the bugs of his many previous outings. When Bitsy Bee goes missing, Busy Bug goes on the hunt. By turning the pages left to right, readers can find bugs...
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David A. Carter, Author, Dave Carter, Author Grosset & Dunlap $14.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-448-40062-4
Surprises abound in Carter's ( How Many Bugs in a Box? ) fanciful guessing-game book, which he has filled with engaging alliterations, tongue-twisting questions, colorful windows with flaps that open and elaborate, ingenious pop-ups. The opening...
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David A. Carter. Little Simon, $12.99 (18p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4096-8
A smiley-faced yellow box assumes different roles and interacts with white chalk-drawn elements against plain black pages in this joyful exploration of opposites. Transformed into a helicopter, the yellow box rises upward in a pop-up ("High and low...
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David A. Carter, Author, David A. Carter, Illustrator Little Simon $10.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-689-81858-5
Just for fun, the latest bug-infested celebration, Birthday Bugs: A Pop-up Party by David A. Carter features a present on every page. Each can be untied, opened and otherwise unwrapped to see the bugs within: Balloon Bugs, a Smoocher Bug-and bug...
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David A. Carter. S&S/Little Simon, $12.99 (16p) ISBN 978-1-4424-5055-4
Carter’s bugs know no bounds, and in this addition to his expansive series, Bitsy Bug takes a dream journey into a “magical land, far, far away.” During Bitsy’s travels, she meets Jewel Flower Bugs (with shiny gems in the center of their blooms), a...
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David A. Carter, Author, David A. Carter, Illustrator Little Simon $16.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-689-84643-4
Flapdoodle Dinosaurs by David A. Carter is just plain fun. Heavy black text stands out against the slick white background: ""Who's inside the loaf of bread?"" it asks. Children flip the plump loaf on the opposite page to find the vibrant ""Tyrannosau
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David A. Carter. Little Simon, $12.99 (18p) ISBN 978-1-4814-0295-8
The star of Carter’s The Happy Little Yellow Box pop-up, which covered opposites, returns in a pop-up alphabet book. The smiling box appears in 3-D pop-ups, hiding behind flaps, and moving down a “slippery slide” thanks to a pull-tab. Chalklike line
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David A. Carter, Author, David A. Carter, Illustrator . S&S/Little Simon $19.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4093-7
More child-friendly than last year's 600 Black Spots
, the new addition to the series that began with One Red Dot
is just as much an overture to exploring art. A yellow square hides in plain sight in or within the paper engineering on each...
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David A. Carter, Author, David A. Carter, Illustrator Little Simon $14.95 (10p) ISBN 978-0-671-72923-3
Although not as whimsical as How Many Bugs in a Box? or Jingle Bugs , Carter's latest will keep its audience thoroughly entertained. A series of dialogue balloons on richly decorated panels conducts an auditory guessing game: ``I'm big and furry and
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David A. Carter, Author, David A. Carter, Illustrator Little Simon $6.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-689-85815-4
Shaped like a heart, David A. Carter's Love Bugs Mini Edition is a handsize version of the 1995 original, just right for presenting as a Valentine for all ages. Pop-ups of googly-eyed creatures (e.g., Cupid Bugs, Kissing Bugs and topped off with "
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David A. Carter, Author, David A. Carter, Illustrator Little Simon $10.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-689-81860-8
Creators of novelty formats for other holidays now approach the Festival of Lights. David A. Carter presents Chanukah Bugs: A Pop-up Celebration. Each spread features a flap designed to resemble a gift box, one for each of the eight nights. Among
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David A. Carter, Author, David A. Carter, Illustrator Little Simon $10.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-689-85280-0
With a pop-up spooky surprise on the final spread, David A. Carter's In a Dark, Dark Wood puts a new spin on an old tale. The paper-over-board book features colors-emanating from beakers-that waft, snake-like, through the full-bleed ...
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David A. Carter, Author, David A. Carter, Illustrator Little Simon $14.99 (1p) ISBN 978-0-689-85035-6
Part of the Bug in a Box series, Peekaboo Bugs by David A. Carter offers five liftable flaps on each page to highlight an assortment of same-colored items (""Can you find the Blue Bug?""); a turning wheel keeps the foil-trimmed insects on the...
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David A. Carter, Author, David A. Carter, Illustrator Little Simon $14.95 (12p) ISBN 978-0-689-83104-1
Fans of Carter's Bugs in a Box series get more of what they like in this pop-up parody as a nimble troupe of nonsensical bugs upends a familiar Christmas carol. As in the previous books, each spread reveals another gaily wrapped box; inside each box
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David A. Carter, Author, David A. Carter, Illustrator Little Simon $14.95 (20p) ISBN 978-0-671-64965-4
Raising the flaps on each spread of this lift-up counting book reveals fanciful insects in increasing numbers, from ""one tough bug'' with barbells, to ``seven space bugs'' surrounded by stars and planets, to ``ten saw bugs,'' whose snouts indeed...
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David A. Carter, Author, David A. Carter, Illustrator Little Simon $10.95 (14p) ISBN 978-0-689-85916-8
David A. Carter adds to his popular paper-over-board pop-up series with Halloween Bugs: A Trick-or-Treat Pop-up. Readers lift flaps to trick-or-treat at a series of doors, from dusty and rusty to magical, all of which conceal inventively ...
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David A. Carter, Author, David A. Carter, Illustrator . Little Simon $22.99 (20p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4094-4
In Carter's final “color” book (after One Red Dot
, Yellow Square
, and others), abstract paper pop-up sculptures form a symphony of white noise—clicks, clacks, and the like—as they expand. Gently batting “a tangle
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David A. Carter and Noelle Carter. Random/Corey, $14.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-375-86509-1
Turning his attention away from bugs, David Carter and his wife, Noelle, launch a pop-up series with a counting book that introduces an eclectic cast of specialized robots that sport antennae, springs, wheels, pincers, and other handy apparatuses....
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David A. Carter, Author, David Carter, Illustrator Cartwheel Books $14.95 (14p) ISBN 978-0-439-26468-6
Two familiar songs spring to life thanks to David A. Carter's movable illustrations. Youngsters can open a farmyard fence as a pig jumps out with its sound, ""oink oink,"" showing through a die-cut opening in Old MacDonald Had a Farm. With the...
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David A. Carter, Author, David Carter, Illustrator Cartwheel Books $15.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-590-93828-0
Two familiar songs spring to life thanks to David A. Carter's movable illustrations. Youngsters can open a farmyard fence as a pig jumps out with its sound, ""oink oink,"" showing through a die-cut opening in Old MacDonald Had a Farm. With the...
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David A. Carter and James Diaz. Abrams, $24.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1307-1
This interactive guide to the history of sculpture comes packaged with die-cut cardboard shapes that can be used to assemble six sculptures the size of a sculptor’s maquette (“a small study of the sculpture,” Carter and Diaz explain). The authors...
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David A. Carter, Author, James Diaz, Illustrator Little Simon $12.95 (12p) ISBN 978-0-689-86508-4
Those who have puzzled over how pop-up books work can learn about them from the master in Let's Make It Pop-Up by David A. Carter and James Diaz. Diagrams and explanations help readers make eight pop-up creations, from butterflies to gingerbread
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