What's in the Deep Blue Sea? - Hardcover

PreSchool-Grade 2-- Bold shapes and vivid colors create exciting backgrounds for these visits to exotic places. In both books, two techniques are used to disclose unusual concealed creatures. Sometimes lifting a flap or two uncovers hidden animals. In other cases, if a leaf is lifted or a cloud brushed away, the beast or bird pops up or flaps his wings. As a finale, an enormous animal bursts from between two pages. This mixture supplies pace, variety, and drama for children who search for the seven animals in each book. Text is spare, a question and answer on each set of double pages: "What's floating through the coral branches? . . . A jiggly jellyfish." Verbs and alliterative adjectives are well chosen. For those who select pop-up books for their collections, this well-designed pair will provide fun for young patrons. --Nancy Seiner, The Carnegie Lib . of Pittsburgh
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As with their previous collaborations, What's in the Jungle? and What's in the Cave? , these two pop-up books are absolute delights. Preschoolers with an interest in nature will be immediately drawn in by the simple question on each spread ("What's stomping through the trees?") and eagerly anticipate the answer ("A terrible Triceratops") concealed under the flaps. Carter's bold paintings and clever collages combine with superior paper engineering to move the reader steadily to the final spreads, which feature a bright yellow, red and blue octopus and a pleasingly scary tyrannosaurus. These books are great fun and stand-outs in what seems an increasingly mediocre field. Ages 3-7.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.