Comments on: The New Pop Up Book for Kids

By: Tara Marie

Tara Marie — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:01:57 +0000

Aren’t these fabulous? I bought my son the shark one the last time I was in B&N.

By: Janice

Janice — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:57:13 +0000

Oh, awesome. I think I found one of the gifts I’m getting my boyfriend (a dinosaur nut) for his birthday.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:04:50 +0000

I would have gone for the dinosaur book before the fairy book when I was little. I was such a tomboy the neighbor boy thought I WAS a boy until my first day of school~the dress clued him in that I was, in fact, a girl! ROFLOL!!

By: Tilly Greene

Tilly Greene — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:47:21 +0000

Ahhh, the pop-up…my addiction, and yes, I’m a member of the Moveable Book Society!

The -ology books don’t push the boundaries of creativeness for a paper engineer like pop-ups do, but they are interesting and interactive. Egyptology was the best, and I’ve given the Dragonology as gifts to both nephew and goddaughter [yup, publisher talking out of their backside and showing they have no idea who their customer is] but I might get the Mythology one for myself.

As for getting the pop-ups for your little one…why not? The Encyclopedia books by Sabuda and Reinhart are full of information and fun, you can’t beat that for encouraging her to go against type :-)

By: Meljean

Meljean — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:08:01 +0000

I got the shark one for my daughter — I couldn’t pass it up. (And, okay, it was so freaking cool — I always wanted something like that when I was a girl.) My daughter would love a Fairytopia book, but she likes the “How Airplanes Work” pop-up just as much (thank goodness.)

The bargain tables really are great for books like this — I’m constantly surprised by what is out there, although I do end up wondering how there seems to be so many types of books that go to the remainder table.

We’ve picked up tons of those coffee table art/photography books that way. There’s no way we would have at full price. Do they sell so many at full price that the publisher can justify the expense of production?