Creighton University

I am delighted to see this inexpensive set of pop-up books.  The pop-up constellations are complex, especially for the limited size of the book (4.75" x 6").  This telling of GA has the grasshopper simply shut out at the story's end.  There are five pop-up pages among the seven pages of the book.  The best of them for me has the ants answering the grasshopper's knock at their door in winter.  Notice the easy-to-miss grasshopper lying in the lower right on 2.

This little (4.75" x 6") book of eight pages is particularly well done.  The "naughty" shepherd is introduced as loving to tease others.  The first illustration has him donning a mask to frighten both people and animals.    After each of two shouts that a wolf is coming – "Come and save me!" – the pop-ups show the townsfolk arriving and getting increasingly angry.  The arrival of the wolf is particularly well done: the pop-up gets the boy running, his cap flying off, and the wolf getting hold of a sheep.  The last two pages have no pop-ups but express, first, life going on normally as no one responds to the boy and, then, the boy crying among dead sheep as the wolf runs away.  Well done!

This is another little (4.75" x 6") book of eight pages that is very well done.  Its best effects include an underwater view of the birds' congregation on 2; the crow's mirror amid his confused mess of feathers on 4; the wild flutter of all sorts of birds when Zeus approaches the jackdaw with the crown on 6; and the attack-in-progress by the other birds on 7.  This version starts with Zeus and ends with the jackdaw walking away in despair.  This book is another big success by the publisher!

The very first page in this little (4.75" x 6") book of eight pages is captivating: the lion opens his eyes to catch the mouse scampering over his paw.  On 2, the mouse dangles before the angry lion's open mouth.  On 3 the lion is opening his mouth and delivering the mouse there.  "Dear lion, please let me go.  I will repay you in the future."  In this version, the mouse comes upon the hunter and his dog near the lion trapped on the ground.  A great page then has the hunter hoist the lion up, with a physical string doing the lifting.  The last page has the mouse riding on the freed lion's mane, with a very tall tree struggling to make it off of the facing page.  This book is another big success by the publisher!