Alice's adventures in Wonderland : a pop-up adaptation of Lewis Carroll's original tale by Robert Sabuda

This is a book for all ages! I knew of pop-up (paper engineered) books but didn't truly begin studying them until I was taking a children's liteature class in my master's program. I had a professor who collected pop-up books.

The history of pop-up books is very interesting. Check out this website for more information. http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/popup2/introduction.htm

Robert Sabuda will be at the Dallas Museum of Art for Book smART on May 31. For tickets, go to the website DallasMuseumofArt.org/ALL or call 214-922-1818 for tickets.

It is amazing how detailed some can be and Robert Sabuda is an excellent paper engineer. My favorite part of this book is the house of cards. I hope the whole family enjoys this book and then goes out and reads more pop-up books. Enjoy!


Horn Book (November/December, 2003):
Pop-up master Sabuda turns his craft to Carroll's classic tale, creating on each of six spreads an iconic tableau from the story: one spread opens to show a sulky Alice seated at a 3-D tea party with the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the sleeping Dormouse, while opalescent silver teacups rise from the table; in another spread, Alice takes a swing at a rolling hedgehog with her pink flamingo croquet mallet. Small booklets to the side of the main image contain Carroll's text (necessarily abridged: the story moves at an over-fast pace but still manages to cohere) along with some pop-up surprises of their own. Devotees of the original art will applaud Sabuda's adoption of Tenniel's style even as he translates the characters and scenes into his own psychedelic color scheme. Devotees of pop-ups will admire the effects Sabuda achieves: Alice's neck growing out of the page, a baby whose face is replaced by that of a pig, a gardener painting a rose that changes from white to red. Foil accents light up the magenta, teal, and royal blue pages; every fur-bearing character is texturized with flocked paper. The only thing lacking is the Cheshire Cat, who emerges Sphinx-like from a tree but fails to vanish and leave his grin behind. A cunning addition to any Alice collection, this achievement in paper engineering will leave readers with an into-the-rabbit-hole sense of astonishment.