- Hardcover: 22 pages
- Publisher: HarperEntertainment; 1 edition (Nov 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0688171958
- ISBN-13: 978-0688171957
- Product Dimensions: 28.3 x 20.1 x 3.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 163,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you're buying this for kids, they may well love it, but probably not if they've already got any of the modern pop-up masterworks that are available. If you've seen the Encyclopaedia Prehistorica or any of that series, or if you've got Star Wars, a pop up guide to the Galaxy, you'll be disappointed by the basic pop ups you'll find here. It's a great idea, badly executed.
Format:Hardcover
This book contains the best paper engineering I have seen - and I have a big collection of pop-up books from 1895 to today. The first pop-up, a fearsome dentist with a revolving drill, made me laugh out loud - and the vertigo pop-up, looking down from the top of a skyscraper, gave me vertigo! This is a treasure of a book.
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107 of 111 people found the following review helpful
I asked my colleague to send it back in a brown paper bag
20 May 2001
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
When I lent this book to a psychologist down the hall, I asked him to put it in a paper bag if he needed to leave it in my waiting room. Why?
This is one of the funniest books I have read, but if you actually have phobias, you have to be in the "right place" in your recovery to appreciate the humor.
I would recommend it for adolescents and adults who find that humor helps them step back and laugh at their anxiety, phobias or obsessiveness. This book consists of paper pop-up depictions of phobias including fear of dentists, fear of heights and fear of snakes. The person who worked on this book has clearly been through it himself. I can't imagine any other way that someone could get this so vividly. Open a page, and your worst fear literally jumps right in your nose. Not for young children or those who are especially sensitive.
I would have given it five stars if he had done a page on thunderstorms. Maybe there will be a second edition.
Carol Watkins, M.D.
Psychiatrist
67 of 72 people found the following review helpful
Tremendous
28 Aug 2001
Format:Hardcover
This pop-up book is sure to be a winner - the spiders and snakes seem to leap out of the page at you. Well-conceived and beautifully executed, it even had something for my homophobic Uncle Sandy.
36 of 39 people found the following review helpful
The Brilliance Jumps Right Out! Literally.
23 Nov 1999
Format:Hardcover
Absolutely brilliant. I stumbled across this gem on a tip from Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America. You can count on feeling woozy with laughter or from recognition of your phobia! Mr. Greenberg, et al., have crafted a witty, nicely-illustrated and superbly-designed treasure of a book. The well-engineered pop-ups range from the quite elaborate to the very simple--with equal, yet remarkable, effectiveness. I look forward to anything Mr. Greenberg should produce in the future. I highly recommend it for anyone with or without phobias, in fact I've sent it to a couple of neurosis-laden friends, already. Kudos to the authors (and thanks!).
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