David A. Carter’s “Color Series” (5 vols., 2005-2009).
About making these books, Carter states: “When viewing this series of books as a whole, my hope is to create a range of feelings and interactive visual experiences. I believe that art that creates a roller coaster of emotions is entertainment, and one of my goals as an artist is to entertain your mind.” [Quoted from: Yellow Square, 2008 (lower cover)]
One Red Dot: A Pop-up Book for Children of All Ages. New York: Little Simon, 2005. The ten pop-ups in this book each have one red dot situated somewhere in the paper sculpture.
Blue 2: A Pop-up Book for Children of All Ages. New York: Little Simon, 2006. A quasi-alphabet book, this sequel to One Red Dot provides abecedarian clues to the location of a blue “2” within each structure.
600 Black Spots: A Pop-up Book for Children of All Ages. New York: Little Simon, 2007. Lift-flaps and pull-tabs add to the movable features in this pop-up, the third in the series.
Yellow Square: A Pop-up Book for Children of All Ages. New York: Little Simon, 2008. Captioned sculptures and kinetic engineering invite not only reading but interaction—Carter wants the reader to “please touch the art.”
White Noise: A Pop-up Book for Children of All Ages. New York: Little Simon, 2009. Poetic text and paper constructions that make their own sounds characterize this final volume in the “Color” series.
David A. Carter. Colors. New York: Little Simon, 1993.
“A Baby Bug Pop-up Book.” The publisher issued this pop-up in “normal” and “miniature” sizes.
David A. Carter. How Many Bugs in a Box? A Pop-up Counting Book. New York: Little Simon, 1988.
“A Bugs in a Box Book.” This title represents first pop-up book in Carter’s popular “Bugs” series. The previous year he published a lift-the-flap version of the book.
David A. Carter. More Bugs in a Box: A Pop-up Book about Color. New York: Little Simon, 1990.
“A Bugs in a Box Book.” The sequel to Carter’s How Many Bugs in a Box?
Disney’s 1, 2, 3, Under the Sea: A Little Mermaid Pop-up Counting Book. New York: Disney Press, 1995 (Intervisual Books).
Paper engineering by Bruce Reifel and Ariel Apte. A counting book adapted from the motion picture The Little Mermaid.
Disney’s Pop-up Book of Colors. New York: Disney Press, 1991 (Intervisual Communications).
One of a series of pop-up books, identical in format and shape, that Disney published about basic concepts: … of Numbers; … of Opposites; … of Shapes; … of Actions; … of Seasons; etc.
Kees Moerbeek and Carla Dijs. Six Brave Explorers. Los Angeles: Price Stern Sloan, 1988 (Intervisual Communications).
A book about counting backwards.
Chuck Murphy. Color Surprises. New York: Little Simon, 1997 (White Heat).
Chuck Murphy. One to Ten: Pop-up Surprises! New York: Little Simon, 1995 (White Heat).
Sophie and David Pelham. Counting Creatures: Pop-up Animals from 1 to 100. New York: Little Simon, 2004.
This book was published as a companion volume for David Pelham’s A Is for Animals, a pop-up alphabet book published in 1991.
Ron van der Meer. How Many? Spectacular Paper Sculptures. New York: Robin Corey Books, 2007.
A book about shapes and counting.
Dean Walley’s Children from Many Lands. Kansas City, Mo.: Hallmark Children’s Editions, [197-?].
“A Hallmark Pop-up First Counting Book.” Illustrated by Judy Griffith; paper mechanics by Bruce Baker.
