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Pop-up books

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chocolateshoes · 05/05/2007 20:32

A friend gave us a Maisie's farm pop-up book - the sort where the book opens out into a farm scene with lots of detail. I notice on the back cover that there is another Maisie one but does anyone know of any others please? I'd like to put them on DS's birthday present list.

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spudmasher · 05/05/2007 20:35

The Tickle Book is good - Axel Scheffler, of Gruffalo fame, is the illustrator.How old is your ds?

casmumof3 · 05/05/2007 20:36

Going on a bear hunt is fab

funnypeculiar · 05/05/2007 20:37

Also Bedtime Bear - also Axel Schiffer!

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chocolateshoes · 05/05/2007 20:50

He'll be 2. He love Axel Scheffer (fav bks are often The Grauffalo & Room on the Broom). So are those pop up ones then?

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spudmasher · 05/05/2007 20:56

Tickle Book is pop upish. On the front it says 'with pop up surprises' but most of them go round or up and down etc.
I also have few of the Snappy pop up series. They are Ted Smart books - the book people do them. The paper engineering is great but the writing is shite!

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chocolateshoes · 05/05/2007 21:02

You see with this Maisie one you tie the 2 covers together and the whole thing springs up into a farm with 4 sections and lots of little pop-up bits. You get a little book with it so you can read the story & re-enact it. Its really very good.

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spudmasher · 05/05/2007 21:03

Sounds lovely. We have a fairy castle book along those lines.

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chocolateshoes · 05/05/2007 21:30

Hmmm Fairy Castle is prob more for girls? My sister has very little idea of what to get DS for his birthday so I wanted to be able to give her some very specific ideas. However I have given a list of all my ideas to DPs side of the family, so need to think of something dofferent for her. DS is totally absorbed by his pop-up book that this seemed to be the perfect suggestion for her.

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Twiglett · 05/05/2007 21:35

You simply HAVE to buy pop-up books by Robert Sabuda .. they are simply works of art

we have Alice in Wonderland .. it is absolutely amazingly fabulous .. my 3 year DD old loves it as does my 6 year old DS.. have given it to 4 friends' kids .. they've all taken them in for show and tell .. and adored them .. latest, a boy of 6, told his mum that it was his all-time favourite thing in the world

robert sabuda

spudmasher · 05/05/2007 21:37

Wow! They look beautiful.
Where's my credit card.....

Twiglett · 05/05/2007 21:40

this is it on Amazon.com

they sell it on .co.uk .. but the .com site has inside spreads (if you give it a moment to load)

its truly spectacular

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