REVIEW: Chopsy Baby is reviewing… Lost and Found Pop Up Edition

Oliver Jeffers‘ story about the boy who finds a penguin on his doorstep, has been given the pop-up treatment by paper engineer Corina Fletcher.

It would be easy to dismiss a pop-up version of the book without seeing it. What can be enhanced through the medium of pop-up? A few flaps and a pop-up penguin for little hands to rip off?

Essentially, there is plenty for little hands to rip off, but aimed at a readership of three to five year olds, one would hope they could restrain themselves.

Lost and Found is the dreamily illustrated story of a boy who finds a penguin on his doorstep and tries to take him home to the South Pole.

The story literally springs off the pages with Fletcher’s designs and there is a lovely slide where the Penguin and the Boy sail around an iceberg missing each other.

With the pop-ups, it’s a perfect ‘Night Garden’ of a bedtime story. That point where children are almost asleep and the imagination ripe to embrace a magical world.

A lovely version of the book to share with children at bedtime.

£14.99
Hardback
Harper Collins