Anyone who has glimpsed A Christmas Carol: A Pop-Up Book
There are six panels and each of them is wonderfully gorgeous, fun and intricately depicts key scenes from A Christmas Carol – the neighborhood, Marley and each of the ghosts get a panel. I spent several minutes poring over each panel, amazed by the scenes – the people and neighborhoods in each one.
The story is very present in the drawings, but I did wonder how the whole thing could be told in just six pages. So get this, the book has little mini-pockets on each page which miniature booklet with a section of A Christmas Carol, and it is not abridged, so you get the whole story. You can almost consider the book like a play and the panels are the settings for each scene. What I love about this is that it makes it easy to share this book among people of all ages. You can make up the stories and explain the pictures to your little ones, and give more of the story to them as they are growing up. Finally they will want to read the book on their own. I loved playing with it, and hey if you take it places you might meet some people.
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Check out a video which includes panel close-ups to see what I mean.
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I think this book is just gorgeous and I’m sure we’ll be pulling it out every year at Christmas!
Oh beautiful! I love this story and this looks so pretty!
I LOVE pop-up books. This would make a great gift…
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I saw this on Booking Mama blog and wanted it then but I either didn’t know or didn’t remember it had the mini-booklets with more of the story. I think I’m going to have to go out and get this book this weekend.
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I need to get my hands on this one. It looks gorgeous!
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This looks like a gorgeous book
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Pop ups are wonderful and at times very intricate!! I’m going to have to find a copy just to open up for myself
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My problem is that I get so caught up in the pop-ups that I don’t bother pulling out the actual story booklets.
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I have that same problem with graphic novels, but in reverse. I am so used to reading text that I forget the pictures. Pop ups make you engage.
Yes, Nicole, they do! One of the things I love best about pop-ups is how interactive they are.
Hope you and everyone enjoys the book!
This looks so great! I have a child-like love for pop-up books — there is this pop-up Chronicles of Narnia that almost made me cry because of how amazing it was. :p
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This would make a lovely Christmas gift!
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