White Noise: A Pop-up Book for Children of All Ages

by David A. Carter, David A. Carter (Illustrator)

Overview

First came One Red Dot, next Blue 2, 600 Black Spots, Yellow Square, and finally White Noise, the fifth installment of David A. Carter's acclaimed color series! Modern and elegant paper engineering and text are certain to awe children of all ages.

Paper-over-board book has 9 spreads of pop-ups. Book is packaged in a resealable polybag with a sell sheet

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416940944
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	10/27/2009
Series:	A Classic Collectible Pop-Up Series
Edition description:	Pop-Up
Pages:	20
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	3 - 8 Years

About the Author

David A. Carter is a master paper engineer and creator of How Many Bugs in a Box? and more books in that series, which has sold more than six million copies. He is also the author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed One Red Dot, among others. Carter lives in Auburn, California, with his family.

David A. Carter is a master paper engineer and creator of How Many Bugs in a Box? and more books in that series, which has sold more than six million copies. He is also the author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed One Red Dot, among others. Carter lives in Auburn, California, with his family.

Editorial Reviews

When my son was younger I bought him all of Carter's pop-up bug books, which are magical. But the entire color series is more than mere pop-up entertainment—particularly White Noise, which is a laptop sculpture garden, a romp through cubism and futurism, and a lesson in early-20th-century modernist formalism…Carter's creations are akin to fireworks displays, each building in pyrotechnical intensity until the most impressive burst at the end.
—The New York Times

Steven Heller

In Carter's final “color” book (after One Red Dot, Yellow Square, and others), abstract paper pop-up sculptures form a symphony of white noise—clicks, clacks, and the like—as they expand. Gently batting “a tangle of bits and pieces” that hang by string produces “tinkling white noise,” while on another page, readers can drag their fingers along fibrous, crenellated wings to make a strumming sound. References to sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and artist Bruno Munari, among others, will be lost on young readers, but the expressive, intricate shapes, blistering primary color palette, and subtle audio dimension are entrancing. Ages 3–up. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

Gr 3 Up—Carter's fifth installment in his innovative, color-themed paper-sculpture series incorporates another level of sensory interaction for readers to take note of and explore. Sound plays an important role in the artwork from the cover (fingers can be strummed along the raised, textured starburst shapes) to the unfurling and contemplation of each of the nine paper-engineering marvels contained within. Like the other offerings in the series, the poetic text tantalizingly refers to the displayed pop-up while leaving much to interpretation by the imagination ("Rainbow bubble blast/and crackly white noise") or explanation from canny adults ("Sir Anthony's easel/and Munari's white noise"). The paper structures are as breathtaking as ever, with the sound effects varying from "white noise" created as the sculpture is deployed to pieces with added aural wows (the "tinkling" of cutout circles hanging from string or a pull tab that runs along serrated xylophonelike card stock). The relationship between words, sounds, and visuals is consistently pleasing, thought-provoking, and playful. In addition to grabbing the eye and ear, this book seems a natural for extensions in music and art classes.—Joy Fleishhacker, School Library Journal

School Library Journal

Noises in most pop-up books are accidents: An over-glued element gets unstuck, or-horrors-rips entirely. But this, the fifth and last in Carter's Color series (600 Black Spots, 2007, etc.), actively crackles, tinkles and creaks. Using his customary flat primary-and-black-and-white palette, the artist/engineer creates paper sculptures that leap off the page in complex, Modernist designs, each one enlivened by some movable element-in white paper-that rubs against the others to make a noise. Some ratchet by themselves as the pages open, another requires the pull of a tab, yet another-white paper "wings" joined by a taut string-begs fingers to touch for an assist. Knowledgeable adults will recognize nods to Modern artists and jazz musicians; children will simply be enthralled by the totality of the experience. (Pop-up/picture book. 6 & up)

Kirkus Reviews