The Pop-Up Guide: Vehicles

by Maud Poulain, Charline Picard (Illustrator)

Overview

Which vehicles work on construction sites? What types of vessels travel across oceans? Which ones take us up in the air?
Children can find out the answers to these questions and more in this accessible and interactive guide. The multilayered 3-D scenes leap off every page, allowing young readers to explore the world of vehicles in a unique way.
• 10 big multilayered pop-ups, one on every spread!
• Descriptive text and labeled illustrations for quick and easy learning
• Built-in elastic bands that allow readers to display their favorite scenes on a bookcase or desk
• Sturdy construction that’s perfect for at-home or on-the-go

If you like Pop-Up Guide: Vehicles, you will also enjoy Pop-Up Guide: Space.
• Great family and classroom read-aloud
• Books for children aged 3 to 5
• Books for preschool and kindergarten children

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9791027609994
Publisher:	Tourbillon
Publication date:	09/07/2021
Series:	Pop-up Guide Series
Pages:	20
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Maud Poulain is an author and editor of childrens' books. She lives and works in Paris, France.

Charline Picard earned a degree in drafting and design with a concentration in illustration. Currently working for a video game studio, she illustrates using water colors or the computer, for magazines and newspapers, books, and advertisements. She lives in Lyon, France.

Editorial Reviews

2021-08-31
From skateboards to space probes, a pop-up panorama of ways to get around.

Each of the 10 tableaux in this French import gathers a thematically unified fleet of vehicles, beginning with buses, cars, utility trucks, commuter trains, and bicycles arrayed in a spacious urban scene. They take readers along to a construction site, a traffic accident (with no visible casualties), a busy highway, a race scene, a crowded waterway, and finally into the sky and beyond. Everywhere except outer space human figures are visible, and Picard casts them as diverse in both age and race. The pop-ups are just two-dimensional cutouts without flaps or moving parts, but the openings are arranged horizontally to make the terraced scenes display well. Poulain adds brief commentary that is as generic as the vehicles themselves (“Marine vehicles are specially built to travel in water”), but both they and the background images are labeled, along with various elements in the settings, from “bale of hay” and “tires” to “Earth” and “Mars.” Some of the scenes have logical integrity, such as the construction site and the accident. At the latter, a variety of expected vehicles converge after a car rams an apartment building. Others are composites, as with the race that seems to involve a Formula One racer, a go-cart, two different kinds of bicycles, an ATV, and a bobsled.

Suitable for displays of the staid, matter-of-fact sort. (Informational pop-up picture book. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews