The Greatest Opposites Book on Earth

by Lee Singh, Tom Frost (Illustrator)

Overview

Step right up and feast your eyes on opposites like you’ve never seen them before!

This fabulously clever novelty book is full of surprises. Ingenious paper engineering and gorgeous artwork combine to make an enormously fun opposites book for all readers. Tom Frost’s razzle-dazzle illustrations make this pop-up, fold-down, pull-out book something to be treasured.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763695545
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	10/03/2017
Pages:	16
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Lee Singh is a self-taught paper engineer whose previous titles include ABC & Do. He lives in the U.K.

Tom Frost is a printmaker whose retro style has garnered him a lot of attention. He lives in the U.K.

Editorial Reviews

This big-top-themed offering may not actually be the greatest opposites book on earth, but no one will be demanding a refund…This book offers, yes, fun for the whole family, thanks to Frost's dazzling midcentury modern color scheme and the abundance of simple flaps that the littlest hands can manipulate with the greatest of ease.

The New York Times Book Review - Nell Beram

08/28/2017
Paper engineer Singh and illustrator Frost use a variety of circus acts—as well as flaps and other interactive elements—to show off various opposites, starting with a tent flap that swings from “closed” to “open” to let readers in to the show. In some of the subsequent scenes, one of three clowns who all look the “same” gets a pie to the face, leaving him “different”; a “few” acrobats stacked on top of each other expand into “many” in a paper doll–like chain; and a trapeze artist appears to swing from “near” to “far” with the lift of a flap. Colored in bold shades of vermilion, teal, and mustard, Frost’s images have a bold, graphic quality that evokes vintage circus posters. A stylish opposites primer. Ages 3–7. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

This book offers, yes, fun for the whole family, thanks to Frost’s dazzling midcentury modern color scheme and the abundance of simple flaps that the littlest hands can manipulate with the greatest of ease.
—The New York Times Book Review

Colored in bold shades of vermilion, teal, and mustard, Frost’s images have a bold, graphic quality that evokes vintage circus posters. A stylish opposites primer.
—Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2017-08-07
Hinged flaps and other devices allow a bevy of circus performers to demonstrate opposites.An unmitigated flop from beginning to end, this uninspired show invites readers beneath the big top to see one windup bird and a white-skinned human cast—stereotypically similar-looking men with bristling facial hair and a sad-faced woman who performs twice with her eyes closed—unexcitingly go from "Here" to "There, "Down" to "Up," or (arbitrarily abandoning the general premise) "Wet" to "Dry" beneath a shower of rain. A die-cut daisy chain intended to transform a "Few" acrobats into "Many" when flipped is a paper-engineering fail, as all of the figures are plainly visible even when the flap is closed, and instead of going from "Low" to "High" when her accordion-folded platform is extended upward, a juggler confusingly starts "Short" and ends up "Tall." At the close the ringmaster takes a "Quiet" bow, then bellows "I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE SHOW!" Unlikely.More like the Greatest Snooze on Earth, particularly next to Suse MacDonald's effervescent Circus Opposites (2010) (Novelty. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews