Haunted House

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Even the littlest learners can benefit from getting lost in a good book (with help from a loving caregiver, like a parent). The creatour really captures your imagination and takes you into the creepy world of the haunted house where you will find yourself part of the scenario and entertainingly reveals your inner fears. I am thinking he is in the wooden box heading for Translyvania and trying in vain to saw himself out - yet when I peek into the box, I see no doctor, just a bomb with a lit fuse! Re-issued in its original full-size format, with four new pop-ups, this definitive edition brings the classic novelty to a whole new generation.

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I would not recommend it for toddlers because it is too delicate, but I would get this book before they stopped making it. one of the best-loved pop-up books of all time, now more gleefully ghoulish then ever with the addition of several spooky surprises. Pieńkowski lived and worked in Barnes, London, where he was a patron of the Barnes Literary Society. Watch our video reviews, discover books on our ranking lists, find the best pop-up books for kids and much more. Just as I have Christmas books that I break out and read every year in November and December, I have this one book that I read every year as part of my All Hallow's Read/Halloween Bingo/spoopy-months celebration (spooky-adjacent sorts of things that aren't scary but are amusing).Go on a haunted Halloween adventure through a spooky house in this spine-tingling, sturdy pop-up book! Ghostorama is a pop-up book whose illustrations run the fine line (sometimes) between cute and downright creepy. The paper pop-ups are sturdy, and the reader is treated to concise explanations matching these ingenious inventions.

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He was commissioned to provide designs for Theatre de Complicite, Beauty and the Beast for the Royal Ballet, and Sleeping Beauty at Disneyland Paris.Along with The Great Green Mouse Disaster, this was one of the few books that I would hunt down in my local library as a child. This book does not contain the most amazing pop up mechanisms you will find in other very engineered pop up books , but the illustrations are excellent and there are many funny hidden surprises that you need to look for and find.

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For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was UK nominee in 1982 and again in 2008 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. This double spread featured a large monstrous frog-like creature that popped out of the centre of the page. The story is the perfect length for babies with the attention span of a fly, and the colors and illustrations are beautiful and bright, nice and interesting to look at.The humorous story about a wide-mouth frog from the Okefenokee Swamp also features numerous other outdoor animals sure to please kids who love outdoor excursions. This is one Haunted House that remains as innovative and exciting today as it was twenty-six years ago-but now offers even more tantalizing twists. It finds the perfect balance for the young reader between that snippet of fear of not knowing what's behind a flap or at the turn of the page and the humour in a tentacled creature casually washing up in the sink.

Haunted House Pop-Up Book by Jan Pieńkowski

Since 1979, hundreds of thousands of readers have taken this scared-silly tour of one of the best-selling pop-up books of all time.Einband vorwiegend an den Ecken und Kanten stellenweise etwas berieben/bestoßen - ansonsten sauberes und gutes Exemplar. From 1944, the family moved through Bavaria, Austria and Italy, before settling in Herefordshire, England, in 1946, where Pieńkowski attended Lucton School. Matthew Reinhart's depiction of classic Mother Goose nursery rhymes will bring back childhood memories for parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents alike and is a strong contender for a keepsake.