Ten Horse Farm

by Robert Sabuda, Robert Sabuda (Illustrator)

Overview

Roan, speckled, dappled, gray — how many different horses are playing on these pages? A new novelty delight from renowned pop-up master Robert Sabuda.

Watch with awe as majestic horses leap off the page when you open this stunning full-color pop-up book. Glorious images of horses grazing, prancing, and galloping in an idyllic farm setting are inspired by everyday scenes in rural America as well as by the real Ten Horse Farm (now an art studio) owned by artist and designer Robert Sabuda in upstate New York. This 3-D gem will draw horse enthusiasts of all ages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763663988
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	04/10/2018
Pages:	20
Sales rank:	458,356
Product dimensions:	7.31(w) x 8.81(h) x 1.81(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Robert Sabuda is internationally acclaimed for his stunning pop-up books, including The Christmas Story, and the best-selling Encyclopedia Prehistorica and Encyclopedia Mythologica series, created with Matthew Reinhart. Robert Sabuda lives in New York City.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

March 8, 1965

Place of Birth:

Pinckney, Michigan

Education:

B.F.A., Pratt Institute, 1987

Website:

http://www.robertsabuda.com

Editorial Reviews

★ 06/25/2018
Renowned pop-up engineer Sabuda bases his latest creation on the Ten Horse Art Center in the Hudson Valley, a former farm named for the 10 horses that once resided there; Sabuda converted it into a facility that offers art classes and studio spaces. Sabuda’s own striking artistry is on display in 10 pop-up scenes of as many horses and additional farm animals. Accompanying each spread is a single-word description of the horse in action: a dappled gray horse and a goat move their heads while “playing” tug-of-war with an artful piece of pop-up laundry; a white horse appears peacefully “drinking” from a stream beneath a multitiered pop-up grove of trees; and, in a particularly dramatic rendering, a black horse with a flowing mane is pictured “jumping,” its pop-up parts folding up and out beyond the borders of the page, while a rooster steers clear of the horse’s trajectory. The final spread shows all 10 horses together—one very well hidden—around the periphery of the farm’s welcoming red and purple barn, modeled after the building that now serves as a gallery. This is a beautifully engineered pop-up gem. Ages 5–8. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

A frisky equine outing from a master paper engineer...the special effects are well worth taking the extra care required to keep them intact. An exhilarating ride—for horse lovers, art lovers, and students of design.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Sabuda’s own striking artistry is on display in 10 pop-up scenes of as many horses and additional farm animals...This is a beautifully engineered pop-up gem.
—Publishers Weekly Online (starred review)

From the Publisher

★ 2018-03-04

A frisky equine outing from a master paper engineer.

Each of the first nine page turns causes an intricately articulated horse or two, or some part of a scene, to shoot up or out, often to a startling height or in an unexpected direction (the 10th and last opening is a 3-D layout of the titular farmhouse and yard). Cued by one-word captions, the horses are engaged in different activities, from "Pulling" a cartload of small farm animals or "Playing" tug of war with a goat—using a shirt from a clothesline—to "Resting" amid wildflowers with a trio of playful kittens. Hard-hearted viewers unimpressed by such preciosity may warm instead to Sabuda's simple, harmonious palette and the ways he infuses his scenes with subtle artistic elements, such as the visual echoes in the dramatic edges of a rooster's spread feathers and a windblown mane or sinuous lines of white defining both a stream and the horse drinking from it. As usual, durability plays second fiddle to getting figures and settings to unfold in astonishing, seemingly magical ways. Also as usual, the special effects are well worth taking the extra care required to keep them intact.

An exhilarating ride—for horse lovers, art lovers, and students of design. (Pop-up picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews