Pop-Up Earth

by Anne Jankeliowitch, Olivier Charbonnel (Artist), Annabelle Buxton (Illustrator)

Overview

A dazzling pop-up book full of amazing facts about our planet, certain to entertain the entire family!

You live on it, but how much do you really know about the planet Earth? In this incredible pop-up book, discover why the Earth is so special by learning about how it’s changed over time, how all living things are connected, how tectonic plates form mountains, and about different ecosystems around the world.

In Pop-Up Earth five colorful, breathtaking pop-ups reveal the inner workings of the planet. Intricate illustrations and fact-filled pages connect us to our world, making this a perfect gift for young ecologists and climate activists. Budding geologists and anyone curious about how our planet works will be amazed!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780500652572
Publisher:	Thames & Hudson
Publication date:	04/06/2021
Series:	Pop-Up Series , #1
Pages:	20
Product dimensions:	9.40(w) x 12.10(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Olivier Charbonnel has been a paper engineer for nearly thirty years, and he has created numerous pop-up books.

Annabelle Buxton is a graduate of the E´cole Estienne and the College of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg (HEAR). Her illustrations have appeared in numerous books, and in 2011, she won the Prix Jeunes Talent from the Acade´mie d’Alsace des Sciences, Lettres et Arts.

Anne Jankeliowitch is an engineer specializing in the environment. She has worked for several years in nature conservation and for the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace. She contributed to the bestseller The Earth from the Air, and to several other nature-related books.

Editorial Reviews

"This is a book to be savored, begging for time to be spent looking at the rich details on every page."

New York Journal of Books - Marissa Moss

2021-03-31
Notes on our planet’s history and current state, with pop-up highlights.

The exploration begins with a layered 3-D globe that splits open to reveal a brilliant, foil-lined interior. It goes on to present a lush tableau of pond flora and fauna, a schematic of an erupting volcano with a saw-toothed sound effect, an explosion of playing cards (reflecting one of the narrative’s more fanciful images), and an Edenic tropical waterfall scene. Alas, Charbonnel’s five intricate pop-ups are the stars of a show that doesn’t have much else to recommend it. Buxton fills the pages with arbitrary-feeling arrays of creatures and things that are sometimes labeled and sometimes not, sometimes to scale and sometimes not, and sometimes only marginally relevant to the topic. This is most notable on a spread on climate peril that’s dominated by an oil tanker on fire surrounded by icebergs, fish skeletons, and fire boats. Jankeliowitch does no better, comparing the biosphere to a house of cards (see above) right after noting that it actually has a long history of recovering from extinction events and misinforming readers that the modern Earth is 6,000 years old, that volcanoes help to control our planet’s internal heat, and that in 5 or so billion years the Sun will “go out.” A group scene intended to depict human diversity includes only four that are not clad in casual Western attire; of those four, two are significantly exoticized.

Magnificent paper engineering, but the text and pictures don’t measure up. (Informational pop-up picture book. 7-9)

Kirkus Reviews