10 Little Penguins: A Pop-Up Book

by Joelle Jolivet (Illustrator), Jean-Luc Fromental

Overview

This inventive pop-up, featuring the mischievous stars of Jean-Luc Fromental and Joëlle Jolivet’s 365 Penguins, starts with ten penguins on an icy shore. One by one, they playfully disappear from the scene as the text counts down from ten to zero. The flaps embedded in the book facilitate the story—readers can make the penguins disappear and reappear! It’s a stylish, humorous take on a counting book with winter-friendly, penguin-filled pop-ups.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810995826
Publisher:	ABRAMS
Publication date:	11/01/2010
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Jean-Luc Fromental is the author of more than thirty books.

Joëlle Jolivet is an internationally acclaimed illustrator. Publishers Weekly called her books “vibrant . . . dazzling,” and School Library Journal said they are “as aesthetically impressive as they are informative.”

They both live in France.

Editorial Reviews

The French team behind 365 Penguins recasts the (substantially thinned) flock in a surprisingly subversive pop-up with rhyming vignettes that count down from 10 as each one meets an untimely end. As the vertically oriented book progresses, the penguins engage in chancy activities on the ice: "7 little penguins dine in an igloo./ The chef heats up the rich fish stew./ Fire and ice are a dangerous mix!/ Now the little penguins are only... 6." Interactive features trigger the disappearance of each penguin--pulling one tab makes one penguin explode after overeating krill, while turning a knob lands another in a whale's mouth. The book's wicked sense of humor may trouble sensitive readers, but the final surprise in this little gem will assuage concerns. Ages 4–up. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

Ten little penguins from the original 365 Penguins pop up in rhymed couplets as we count down from ten. On each double page, opening sideways, there is an action tab or flap in addition to the diminishing number of penguins in the deftly crafted pop-up. And each time we turn the page, a penguin disappears, rolling away with a ball, biting a whale, getting caught in a net, etc. When we are down to zero, however, we have a surprise ending. All of them reappear in an icy setting. The birds are very simply depicted in flat color on the ice; the other characters are very basically created, but with enough action to illuminate the text. The disappearances are treated as lighthearted fun. Reviewer: Ken Marantz and Sylvia Marantz

Children's Literature - Ken Marantz and Sylvia Marantz

Ten little penguins bowling (one bowls; the others are set up like ninepins) count down to one little penguin heading off to Valparaiso in this wee and winsome (and ever-so-slightly ghoulish) counting pop-up. Jolivet's striking graphic style, usually in oversized display (365 Penguins, also written by Fromental, 2006), adapts well to the engineered tableaux. Judiciously applied pull-tabs provide extra action. An igloo melts over one penguin chef cooking at a terraced restaurant; a trap door opens under another while it's skating with its fellows. A third even explodes (!) when it gobbles krill too fast. Lest readers be concerned at these and other dire Looney Tunes–style tragedies, there's one more surprise that finds all 10 back in business. The tab engineering works so well and smoothly that children will delight in counting these penguins out over and over again. (Pop-up. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews