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ABC3D Review
"Easily the most innovative alpabet book of the year, if not the decade... Beyond clever."—The Washington Post Prepare to be amazed. From the lenticular cover that changes with the angle of your hands all the way to the Z, ABC3D is as much a work of art as it is a pop-up book. Each of the 26 three-dimensional letters move and change before your eyes. C turns into D with a snap. M stands at attention. X becomes Y with a flick of the wrist. And then there's U...Boldly conceived and brilliantly executed with a striking black, red, and white palette, this is a book that readers and art lovers of all ages will treasure for years to come. User Submitted ABC3D ReviewsDecember 31, 2008 Exceptionally cool! Not suitable for children under 2 years old because the pages are beautifully developed and might tear in their hands, but this is a really cool book for learning the alphabet and seeing the ways in which letters are constructed and tied together. Very neat to look at! December 29, 2008 Execeptional!! This book was much more than I expected. When I got it and opened it I was really impressed by its quality and craftsmanship. My husband who is a Graphic Artist keeps referring to creativity of the designs. Great on the coffee table!! Lori December 26, 2008 A very fun 5 minutes Very cute book, great conversation piece. The idea of a book as art is very cool. However, other than flipping through it once or twice and showing your friends, which takes all of 5 minutes of your time, you'll never open it again most likely. If that's your expectation, no problem, but if you want something more for your money, you'll want to skip this one. December 26, 2008 minimal content, minimally interesting there are 26 letters in the alphabet. about 10 of the pop-ups are really clever, and the rest are merely a block letter in 3-D. the cover is more fun than what's inside. December 25, 2008 Just Like Graphic Class 101 While it's been a few years this reminds me of both Peter Charles and Cliff Harvey in classes I took in sculpture and graphics. Only plainer. It's not as remarkable as it "could be" but it is fascinating to 1st graders. I got it as a gift. Thank you much for remembering the kids. Was it a Vine special, no matter.. And it's going to do double time as I teach two recalcitrant children these basic building blocks of our symbolic meaning, some new way I hope will do it. I'm out of tricks, the year is wearing on, the Standards left them months ago and they know less than ten of these so we will try making them into movies and quiet times together reading because 1 to 1 is the answer, trying new ABC songs and then hoping against hope the miracle of reading will start. The pressure is on. Actually paper engineering was Charles specialty, my teacher long appreciated. His lessons there among others I treasure. The designing is lovely. The book should be, especially at this price, considered for a child near you or a designer in the wings. It's a real value. I'm getting another for a child I love. December 24, 2008 almost perfect I really wanted this book to be five stars, but I'm not the only one who gets disappointed by the letters that seem to have been last minute considerations. Everyone I show has the same reaction - S is awesome, V into W is clever, however U is really confusing and by the time you get to Z you feel like you've been cheated with a few of the letters (A, M, N and Z - maybe I'm not appreciating the simplicity?) and Q and R should have been reversed order with O and P. However, all in all, a fun and classy coffee table book that's fun to share with company. December 19, 2008 A very neat book, not for real little kids though This is a very cool book. Basically, it goes through the alphabet from A-Z. Each page is a 3-D cut out that pops out of the page at you as you open each page. The cut-outs are very elaborate and impressive. I'm not sure how educational the book actually is, and some of the letters might be hard to recognize by some children. Also, Im not sure how durable the book would be in the hands of a child. Certainly it would be destroyed quickly by a very young child. But, it has a nice wow factor too it and so for the right child, it would be a neat gift. November 30, 2008 TRUE pop art I previewed this lovely pop-up book at my 2-4 year olds storyhour, and one of the moms remarked, "Oooh, yes, but I think it's for adults." I don't have room for computers in my children's library -- and I think their use is usually abused anyway -- so I make a lot of pop up books available. I love the sight of children and their parents poring in fascination over the pages of a book. ABC3D has so much to offer. I love the way Bataille has conjured the shape of each letter, the way O and P become Q and R with the addition of a single stroke, etc. It's the kind of "Isn't the world an interesting place" that art has to offer. November 30, 2008 AMAZING!! Just the thought and design behind this book is mindboggling! If you at all love the alphabet, you HAVE to have this book in your library. It will totally make you look at letters differently. A prized posession. November 29, 2008 123's of the abc's As a [former] teacher I find myself still loving Alphabet books!...so I had to buy two of them! One for my grandson and one for my house! For more ABC3D reviews click here.
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