The White House: A Pop-Up of Our Nation's Home

by Robert Sabuda, Robert Sabuda (Illustrator)

Overview

Go on a pop-up tour of the White House with bestselling paper engineer Robert Sabuda!

In this spectacular pop-up guide to the White House by bestselling paper engineer Robert Sabuda, readers can take a tour behind the scenes of the office of the executive branch and the residence of the president and his family. Travel through time as you open each spread and discover the North Face of the White House, the East Room, the Lincoln Bedroom, the Rose Garden, the Oval Office, and the South Lawn of the White House. The text includes the poem "Inauguration Day" by Richard Watson Gilder, adapted by Robert Sabuda.Every American president since John Adams has lived in the White House. More than 1.5 million people visit the White House every year. According to First Lady Michelle Obama, "It's the 'People's House.' It's a place that is steeped in history, but it's also a place where everyone should feel welcome." The White House: A Pop-Up of Our Nation's Home is perfect for Presidents Day and the upcoming election.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545540896
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	12/29/2015
Pages:	12
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.30(h) x 1.90(d)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Robert Sabuda "is indisputably the king of pop-ups," as the New York Times put it. He is the pop-up artist and paper engineer behind many beloved pop-up books, including The Christmas Alphabet, Christmas, America the Beautiful, Winter's Tale, and The Little Mermaid. For more information, go to robertsabuda.com.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

March 8, 1965

Place of Birth:

Pinckney, Michigan

Education:

B.F.A., Pratt Institute, 1987

Website:

http://www.robertsabuda.com

Editorial Reviews

Opening a Sabuda pop-up book feels like receiving a small, perfect gift—he is the absolute master of the 3-D form…The White House displays an earnest patriotism alongside its intricate, playful paper engineering…As always, [Sabuda] finds new ways to surprise and delight on each page.

The New York Times Book Review - Maria Russo

Praise for Winter's Tale:

* "For Sabuda, it almost goes without saying that the paper engineering is breathtaking." — Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Praise for The Little Mermaid:

* "In his latest stunner, Sabuda pairs a version of the tale ... to paper-engineered effects that, as usual, raise the bar of the physically possible." — Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Praise for The Dragon & The Knight:

* "With Sabuda, it's hard to set expectations too high or wide, but here he rides triumphantly roughshod over them anyway." — Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Praise for Chanukah Lights:

* "Sabuda's intricate and inventive paper engineering is a little miracle in keeping with the miraculous oil of the event that Hanukkah commemorates. .... A stunning achievement." — Publishers Weekly, starred review

From the Publisher

★ 2015-11-17
White House high spots, presented with 3-D flair by the archon of paper architects. The opening multileveled scene of the building under construction—with working hoists, workers properly both dark and light of skin, and the real story about Dolley Madison's rescue of the Washington portrait hidden beneath a side flap—sets high expectations that are more than met on subsequent spreads. The East Room sports a huge, bewilderingly complicated chandelier; the austerely furnished Lincoln Study is transformed to a bedroom with a flip; the Rose Garden and, at the end, the South Lawn offer broad expanses of green to set off the elegant white gallery and South Portico that rise up. Thanks to some masterly slides and interlocking folds, the climactic Oval Office actually is an uncreased half oval, with the flag-flanked presidential desk and (unoccupied) chair filling the center space. Along with brief captions and historical notes, Sabuda includes a public domain inaugural poem that he's foresightedly tweaked by changing "man" to "person," "his" to "our president," and like alterations. As usual, the pop-ups are so complex and fragile that careful handling is a must. But for young readers on their way as tourists or otherwise to the nation's capital, here's a grand first glimpse. A selective but resplendent tour. (Informational pop-up. 6-9)

Kirkus Reviews