Flip Flap Snap! Farm

by Carmen Saldana (Illustrator)

Overview

Mix-and-match the pages of this pop-up book to make your own hilarious farm animal combinations

What do you get when you mix a goat and a rooster? A gooster!
Flip the mix-and-match flaps to come up with fun combinations that put a new twist on farm animals! Every spread features lively art, nonfiction rhyming text under die-cut flaps, and hugely satisfying pop-ups that form the animals’ mouths.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419750823
Publisher:	ABRAMS
Publication date:	07/13/2021
Series:	Flip Flap Snap!
Pages:	10
Sales rank:	688,910
Product dimensions:	9.90(w) x 6.40(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Carmen Saldaña lives and works in Gijon, a rainy little city in the north of Spain. After working as a graphic designer, Saldaña became a full-time illustrator and has worked on a whole host of picture books. She loves animals and is inspired by everything in nature.

Editorial Reviews

2021-08-31
A split-page format invites mixing and matching pop-up beaks and muzzles on five farm animals.

Thanks to vertical labels placed as artfully as the central pop-ups, a “cow” gives way in predictable fashion to a “dog,” a “rooster,” “pig,” and so on—or, if just one of the sturdy half pages is turned, a “dow” or “row,” “pog” or “cooster,” etc., with likewise silly mismatched faces and bodies. The cog gazes earnestly out at viewers, wide eyes above a pop-up bovine nose on top, a pop-up border collie’s lower jaw, complete with canines and tongue, meeting it on the bottom. “MOO! WOLF!” it says. The rig is caught in full “COCK-A-OINK! the porcine lower jaw open wide beneath the top portion of the rooster’s beak. Along with comical sound effects, conventional or otherwise (“COCK-A-MOO!”), two flaps on each spread lift to reveal sprightly (uncredited) rhymes: “Out in the meadows / I chew and I munch. / Flowers and weeds / I will eat by the bunch!” The goat’s declaration that “my four sturdy hooves / help me climb to the sky” may require some adult amplification since Saldaña depicts the animal standing in a meadow, but that’s the only mismatch here that won’t set the Oshkosh set to giggling. The stock is fairly sturdy, so the book stands a good chance of lasting through a few careful spins through the permutations.

Unusually rich in wordplay as well as visual drollery. (Pop-up picture book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews