Robert Crowther's Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek Alphabet Book [Hardcover]

Robert Crowther (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 5, 1999 | Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up

Youngsters lift the flaps and pull arrowed tabs to make frogs leap, hens peck, and snakes uncoil. Learning the alphabet has never been so much fun. Full color.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

The first page of Robert Crowther's delightful, interactive pop-up book is pure white, with the big black letters a and b looking perfectly innocent. Tug on the up arrow, however, and a playful, cartoonish ape swings down from the letter, revealing the word ape. Pull the down arrow on b, and a bear peeks through the middle of the letter. On the next page, c flops over to reveal a wily crocodile, a flip of the d sends a dolphin leaping, and a tug on the e pops out the trunk of an elephant! The remainder of the alphabet yields equal delights, as sweet animals blink and scurry and fly and stick their necks out from behind, beneath, and above the letters. Kids will adore this whimsical introduction to animals and the alphabet, and adults will marvel at Crowther's cleverness. (Preschool and older)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Hardcover: 12 pages
• Publisher: Candlewick; 3 edition (May 5, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0763607320
• ISBN-13: 978-0763607326
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,763,072 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic popup favorite is back in print!!, April 2, 1999

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This review is from: Robert Crowther's Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek Alphabet Book (Hardcover)

An adorable new edition of a pop-up that has not been available for years. A must for the toddler and kindergardener first learning the alphabet, great for identifying animals and letters.... loads of fun!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not colorful enough for a pre-schooler, September 3, 2001

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KNSudha (Saratoga, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Robert Crowther's Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek Alphabet Book (Hardcover)

The ape that peeps out from behind the "a" is ant sized, features only the head, and is a dull grey in color. Similarly,very few of the, pop-ups, slides, or tabs reveal compelling colorful, well illustrated animals. I personally DID appreciate the black and white, uncluttered presentation of letters, but I DO feel that the peek out illustrations could have been improved upon. The ape, the bear etc, hiding behind the first two letters are badly drawn -- cartoonish is being too kind. Given my 13 mo old son's reaction to it, as opposed to his response to Chuck Murphy's amazing little pop-up books, I would say pass on it.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It is not worth $11.99, December 4, 2000

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Wing (Livermore, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Robert Crowther's Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek Alphabet Book (Hardcover)

If you are looking for a plain-jane alphabet book to teach your kids just letters with some boring little pullouts and flipovers. Or, if you believe in the theory of kids learning better with just simple black-n-white contrasting colors on a blank page. Get This! don't wait. I got this book after I saw the cover, thinking that the insides will be colorful backgrounds with animals hanging all over the letters; and more animals when you pull tabs or flip open covers. NO! here is what I got, colorful hardbound cover. Except for the inside of the front cover and inside of the back cover (which has one elephant each with a giraffe skin pattern sort of print motif as the background) Every single one of the 10 inside pages were blank-noir (yes, there are only 10 - because nobody in the publishing business ever counts the front and back cover as pages). White - no background of animals or colorful splashes. Solid black letters with pulltabs or flip-open covers of boring (yawn) animals... The publisher of this book should have mentioned the fact that they ripped you off by saving money on the ink. Yes, I am afraid that Amazon's little editoral synopsis's of "full color" applies only to the cardboard cover itself.

I don't think I am expecting too much here. For $11.99 AND for this book to be in the 3 and up category. I am expecting some fun colors in the background of the letters. I got ripped! This is not a book for 3 and older kids. Maybe better for an extremely young infant before they have discovered the world of colors.

1 star only because it does have pull outs of animals and if we stare at the front cover long enough, we might get our $11.99 worth out of it...