Up Down Across

by Corina Fletcher, Natalie Marshall (Illustrator)

Overview

Pull the tabs—what will you find?  There's something fun hiding on every page!
 
Where are you? And where are you going? With a pull of the tab, preschoolers can happily gaze at otters as they swim below, beside, or above each other; watch one octopus emerge from behind another who was in front; and see polar bears up on a snowdrift, sliding across the ice, and down into the water. What a cool, interactive way for kids to grasp the concept of location!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454915621
Publisher:	Sterling Children's Books
Publication date:	02/03/2015
Pages:	12
Sales rank:	628,435
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Corina Fletcher is an award-winning paper engineer who has been creating amazing pop-up books for almost 20 years. Corina first studied Graphic Design at Central St. Martins School of Art and went on to earn her Masters in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art. She lives near Lewes in East Sussex, England.
 
Natalie Marshall has illustrated more than 35 children's titles since graduating from college with an honors degree in Graphic Design. Titles she has illustrated include the My Turn to Learn series (Hachette/LB Kids). In addition to illustrating children's books, Natalie also produces her own line of greeting cards for her Little Red Owl label. She resides near the beach in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband and two kids.

Editorial Reviews

2015-03-17
Various marine animals explore the ins and outs of motion. Little ones are encouraged to examine the space around them with this board book. Each double-page spread features a different set of animals, varying from polar bears to jellyfish, moving through space. Each page features a tab that, when pulled, moves the animal through the scenery and reveals escalating relative modifiers, such as "Under, behind, over" or "Below, beside, above." As the tab is pulled, readers see one animal move through the three different described positions. The tabs are difficult to manage at times, and though they are sturdy enough, the surrounding card stock is all too easy to tear. Anxious readers may even be able to tug the tab out completely, thus ruining the illusion. The illustrations are colorful enough, but some of the logic of the text is lost in the interpretation: can a fish that swims "through" a frond of seaweed really be said to be moving from "inside" to "outside"? A complementary title, Small, Smaller, Smallest, exploring similar territory with woodland critters is also available. While the premise is interesting, the execution is imperfect. (Board book. 1-2)

Kirkus Reviews