Customer Reviews

Cookie Count: A Tasty Pop-up

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Cookie Count IS the best pop up book ever made! It's like an amusement park made of cookie rides. Swirling, pop up, moving cookies rise from each page. A masterpiece! Now all he has to do is make one that we can eat too!

We got this book as a Christmas gift last year. This pop-up book is like no other that I have seen. The children learn to count as they watch the paper come alive. The rhymes are easy to learn and my 3 year old daughter loves to say them as she turns the pages. Note: She is a very careful child, many children would tear the book as it is kind of delicate. She also counts the cookies and the hiding mice on each page. The colors are explosive and even I like reading this book over and over. I cannot even imagine how he gets paper to do the things that they do... cookies rotate, pinwheels rise out of the page and twirl, and a life sized gingerbread house magically climbs out of the book. I would highly recommend this book as long as they will not handle the book roughly. Better yet, read it with them and teach them to be gentle.

My mother brought home the 12 Days Of Christmas by Sabuda and then, the next Christmas, I got this book. Sure, I'm nineteen, but it doesn't matter! This book is absolutly wonderful. The last page is just waiting to be seen, but you can't rush past all the other creations. Anyone who loves their childhood should get this to remember it

I have a 9, 5 and 3.5 year old. All three enjoy the book but for different reasons. My 9 year old tries to figure out how the different pop-ups work. My five year old likes the mice and wants to know about the different types of cookies. My 3 1/2 year old just loves the book for everything it is. She can count, she loves the pop-ups and she is thrilled with the colorful pages. She likes to "read" the story with the numbers even thought she doen't always remember the names of the cookies. I had gotten this book when my son was a baby (8 years ago) and only found it again when we were cleaning his bookcase. It is not a book for a "typical" 2-year old because the pages will rip but for the child who has learned not to rip pages, it is a delight. I would definitely reccommend it. This is a book that engages the reader.

Beautiful book. Please note that the swirling mechanism on the "pinwheel" cookies may need a little fixing:

The pinwheel pop-up was stuck to the page and wouldn't pop-up; and once unstuck it wouldn't twirl.

I had to wrap the string around the base of the plastic post. Apparantly it had not been wrapped tightly enough. Once that was done the mechanism worked perfectly.

So, if you are giving this as a gift, make sure you check it first to see that all the pop-up mechanisms work. If you are sending directly as a gift for a child, let the parents know so they can supervise as the child opens the book for the first time.

This is a great pop-up book for children and adults alike. Each page is full of texture and color leading up to a climactic gingerbread explosion!

This is a wonderful book for children of all ages. The pop-ups are fun and fanciful and will make you ooh and aah. I dare any adult to look at it and not be thrilled. The paper engineering is remarkable and you will stay awake at nights wondering how the artist could make such wonders. This is in full color as opposed to Sabuda's other works mainly done in white. I would make sure small hands are not allowed to get too friendly with this book so as to keep it functional.

Robert Sabuda should do nothing else with his life but create these masterpieces for us. His ability to create pop ups that literally "pop out" of the pages is matched by none. The cookies elicit memories of Christmases past and bring the memory alive of holiday baking when it was a mandate to do it. The final gingerbread house brings tears to my eyes. Sabuda is a master, and he'd better not create a cult, because I will have to leave my family and be one of his groupies.

Cookie Count is a stunningly beautiful book that will thrill adult bakers as well as children.

Absolutely a stunning feat of paper engineering!

You almost wish you could eat the cookies as they pop off the page into your eyes. A clever little story without words occurs behind the simple rhyme that counts out all the cookies. For those watching the waistline, be glad you can only look at the pictures, and this book will stuff only stockings this holiday season and not tummies!