All Shook Up!

by Alain Crozon

Overview

Get animals moving and grooving with each lift—or swing— of a flap! Wiggle inventive flaps to make a butterfly flitter away. Tug an unexpected pop-up to make a wide-eyed hippo stick out its tongue! Bold, graphic, and hilarious, this novelty book is perfect for interactive reading and playtime fun!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452140131
Publisher:	Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date:	08/18/2015
Series:	All Shook Up! Series
Pages:	12
Sales rank:	1,023,736
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	2 - 4 Years

About the Author

Alain Crozon trained at the école Estienne, School for the Decorative Arts, in Paris, France. He lives in Châum;teauroux, France, where he has been a professor of fine arts for ten years.

Editorial Reviews

This zany lift-the-flap book…is like spending time in a high-end design store devoted solely to silly animals, with everything a little cooler and more unexpected than the rest of the world manages to be…[Crozon] restricts himself to three saturated colors—a tomato red, a bright turquoise and a smooth neon yellow—an eye-catching choice that gives the book a unified, purposeful feel.

The New York Times Book Review - Maria Russo

"Whimsical, big-eyed animals move to an Elvis beat with the lift or swing of a flap."—Kirkus Reviews

"Whimsical, big-eyed animals move to an Elvis beat with the lift or swing of a flap."—Kirkus Reviews

"Whimsical, big-eyed animals move to an Elvis beat with the lift or swing of a flap."—Kirkus Reviews

"Each page features a mystery to be solved by curious little hands"—School Library Journal

"Each page features a mystery to be solved by curious little hands"—School Library Journal

"Each page features a mystery to be solved by curious little hands"—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

01/01/2016
PreS—A bold Technicolor palette, clever alliteration, fun rhyme, and innovative flaps make these entertaining choices for dextrous preschoolers. In All Shook Up!, children get the chance to practice their directions: up, down, right, left, back, and front. Showcased throughout are rambunctious animals flapping, fluttering, kicking, and swinging. This work is a perfect inspiration for wiggles and giggles. Young readers are invited to explore different iterations of the titular question in Who's There? Opening with onomatopoeic exclamations, each page features a mystery to be solved by curious little hands. Kids will be pleasantly surprised by what they find after lifting several flaps to discover what's hidden underneath.

School Library Journal

2015-08-12
Whimsical, big-eyed animals move to an Elvis beat with the lift or swing of a flap. Unfortunately, serving as a professor of fine arts at the Beaux-Arts school in Châteauroux, France, for 10 years does not seem to have granted Crozon an understanding of age-appropriate design. The ideas are clever, but the execution is less so. The flaps in this and companion title Who's There? are not sturdy, and many require two hands to manipulate. The arrows that provide directions to the flaps are of no use to young children and needlessly clutter the pages. Yes, pulling on a hippo's tongue and tugging on a donkey's legs to make him kick "back then front! Front then back!" are silly fun but probably beyond the manipulative skills of toddlers. The inevitable tears to the flaps will lead to inevitable tears. Most annoying of all are the stilted phrasing, vocabulary suited for adult readers rather than preschoolers, and the negative cautionary statements on several pages. Young children probably won't understand a warning to "take care not to become tongue-tied." The best part of both books are the bright graphics rendered in yellow, orange, and turquoise. Don't bother to lift these flaps. (Novelty board book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews