How to Make Super Pop-Ups

Kelly L. Green is co-author of The Ethical Shopper’s Guide to Canadian
Supermarket Products and associate editor of the Canadian Book Review
Annual.

This craft book, with instructions for 30 different pop-up projects,
will be great fun for the child who likes to measure, draw, cut, and
paste. Here are pop-up cards, story boxes, masks, and animals—you name
it, and Joan Irvine has created a pop-up for it. Although Irvine has
written clear instructions, and Linda Hendry’s illustrations help
illuminate some of the more complex word pictures, most children will
have to read the instructions more than once simply because these
projects are a little complicated: the end result is worth the effort.

The best thing about this book is that it gives children power. Instead
of being entertained, they become the entertainers; in the process they
figure out how to make and understand something they have enjoyed
virtually since babyhood. There is hardly a child alive who doesn’t
love the three-dimensional magic of pop-ups. Now they can create them.
Highly recommended.