Pamela Zanin Bradbury

A momentary glimpse into the story of Peter Pan is all you’ll get with this pop-up book, so hopefully you have the rest of the books that were apparently published alongside it! Here we see a handful of pop-up tableaus that depict the events when Wendy, her brothers, and the Lost Boys decide to leave Neverland and return home to London, and are subsequently captured by Hook’s crew of pirates. We see inside the Nevertree, the lurking pirates outside, and Peter being poisoned after his friends are captured in carefully constructed compositions. The designer uses the pop-up features artfully to construct some rather complicated scenes depicting what would normally be multiple points of view, so even though they chose non-moving effects of the pop-up style they were quite successful in making the scenes seem quite active. The text was a bit less than desired in comparison, because it’s overly simplified, and doesn’t really add anything to the illustrations - and everyone knows the Peter Pan story anyways! I wish that they had put the rest of the story parts together to make a lavish multi-chapter pop-up book, but I guess it’s too expensive to make and market this type of book to audiences who are buying for young children.… (más)

A momentary glimpse into the story of Peter Pan is all you’ll get with this pop-up book, so hopefully you have the rest of the books that were apparently published alongside it! Here we see a handful of pop-up tableaus that depict the events when Wendy, her brothers, and the Lost Boys decide to leave Neverland and return home to London, and are subsequently captured by Hook’s crew of pirates. We see inside the Nevertree, the lurking pirates outside, and Peter being poisoned after his friends are captured in carefully constructed compositions. The designer uses the pop-up features artfully to construct some rather complicated scenes depicting what would normally be multiple points of view, so even though they chose non-moving effects of the pop-up style they were quite successful in making the scenes seem quite active. The text was a bit less than desired in comparison, because it’s overly simplified, and doesn’t really add anything to the illustrations - and everyone knows the Peter Pan story anyways! I wish that they had put the rest of the story parts together to make a lavish multi-chapter pop-up book, but I guess it’s too expensive to make and market this type of book to audiences who are buying for young children.… (más)