Winter's Tale Pop-up Book w/Slipcase ~ †ROBERT SABUDA Signed Limited Edition

PLEASE NOTE: This book is available to customers within the U.S. only, and will be shipped via Media Mail.

This is master paper engineer Robert Sabuda's Winter's Tale. A signed, limited edition popup with slipcase. This was a copy that was distributed to people in the publishing industry who helped with the book, so please note that although it is signed, it is NOT numbered or lettered.

Published by Little Simon, Simon & Schuster in 2005. 12 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-0787-9/ISBN-10: 1-4169-0787-4. The book/slipcase is in VF condition, still in original packaging, opened only to take photos for this listing. The lights in the last spread are in good, working condition.

Review from Booklist:

More dimensional sleight-of-hand awaits readers in Sabuda's latest entry in the Classic Collectible Pop-Up series. The theme here is winter wildlife, and as in many of Sabuda's books, the spreads feature spare, white pop-ups set against boldly graphic backgrounds embellished with glitter and foil. The renderings display Sabuda's typical virtuosity with a few exceptions; the bear's rounded physique, for example, doesn't translate quite as well to the planes and creases of pop-up art as do the forms of other animals. Remind readers to peek under the diecut flaps on most spreads, where they'll discover miniature pop-up scenes of additional woodland creatures. The text is fairly weak (an owl is described as "a soft streak of white in the sky," even though the artwork shows a close-up bird), but there's a gentle mystery about the identity of the narrator, who remains unseen until the last spread. The piece de resistance? A cozy cottage decorated with tiny, blinking Christmas lights, powered by replaceable batteries.