This pop-up extravaganza by award winner Robert Sabuda is destined to become a new classic for all generations.

Movable Mother Goose: A Classic Collectible Pop-Up (Mother Goose Pop-up Series)

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Perfectly paired pop-up structures bring an ingenious new twist to irreverently interpreted Mother Goose rhymes by bestselling author and imaginative artist Robert Sabuda. Color illustrations throughout. Six spreads.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

Sabuda (ABC Disney) upholds his reputation for mind-bogglingly elaborate paper confections with this surprise-filled collection of nursery rhymes. An all-animal cast makes for some amusing twists: Little Bo-Peep is a sheepdog, Miss Muffet a fly (with good reason to be frightened by a spider) and nimble Jack a grasshopper. Each spread has a central rhyme, the pop-up for which unfolds with the turn of a page; rectangular flaps introduce additional rhymes. The creatures, rendered in matte blocks of color (plus some metallic foil), take on the form of a cut-paper sculpture. The pop-ups are occasionally difficult to decipher: it takes some analysis, for example, to figure out that Jack and Jill are ants tumbling down an anthill. Though Sabuda seems particularly fond of insects, their unfolding limbs and body segments can make them the most challenging to decode. However, the virtuoso pieces are astonishing, particularly the mice that race up and down for "Hickory Dickory Dock" and the four-and-twenty sunglasses-sporting blackbirds that burst from a pie. All ages. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Children's Literature - Childrens Literature

Robert Sabuda is the grand master of pop-up books. These nursery rhymes are illustrated with inventive paper sculptures that are unique and humorous. Little Bo-Peep is an English Sheep dog, Nimble Jack is a grasshopper, Jack Sprat is a hippo, his wife a flamingo. One of the most elaborate sculptures is 24 black birds-a-la-Elvis, baked in a pie. Of course, this fragile art, tempting as it will be to young children, is not for young hands. There are six spreads each brimming with surprises, that make this, as well as each and every one of his other books, a must for collectors of paper sculpture/pop-up books. 1999, Little Simon, Ages 4 to 8, $19.95. Reviewer: Kristin Harris—Children's Literature

Talk Magazine

More visceral storytellling for the little ones, Robert Sabuda's spectacular pop-up book, in which the familiar crew—including four-and-twenty blackbirds in black bonnets and silver sunglasses— emerge from the proverbial pie.