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Christmas Around the World: A Pop-Up Book | 
 enlarge | Author: Chuck Fischer
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $30.00
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 83659
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Pop
Pages: 12
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 9.4 x 1.9
ISBN: 0316117951
Dewey Decimal Number: 394.2663
EAN: 9780316117951
ASIN: 0316117951
Publication Date: October 29, 2007
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Product Description
Master pop-up artist Chuck Fischer's most glorious creation yet -- CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD is the perfect holiday gift. Featuring France, Germany, Russia, Latin America, Scandinavia, Great Britain, Italy, and the United States, every spread is packed with delights: a luxurious central pop-up image, plus removable booklets, pullouts, mini pop-ups, and more. The text illuminates unique Christmas traditions, gift legacies, and portraits of mythic figures, such as England's Father Christmas and Italy's Le Befana. Like Christmas in New York, CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD is destined to become a treasured keepsake and a bestseller for years to come.
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 Christmas Around the World January 24, 2008
Selynn @ the Lake
This is a delightful book that entertains the young and young-at-heart with its educational information. The paintings are beautiful. Each page has it immediate surprises and more that are to be discovered whether by pulling, unfolding or finding flaps to open! It is the best pop-up book that refolds neatly each and every time! It's an heirloom to treasure and hand down to the next generation.
Chuck's NEWEST BOOK, IN THE BEGINNING, GENESIS IS AWESOME! I just got to view it today in its finished format. It is a feast for the eyes and soul! Another MUST_HAVE!
 Pop-Up Christmas Book - multi featured January 7, 2008
Diane Dickson (Blue Springs, MO USA)
Although this book is not inexpensive, Amazon had the best price by far! I saw it in a brick and mortor store and really loved both the overall design and the many little extras. Besides a stand-up in each page spread, there are little "books" on one or both sides that give more detailed info on that country. There are a couple of "sliders" and a small tray that holds a pop-up sleigh (not attached to the book).
This is not really a child's book - except when fully supervised by an adult. Kids will enjoy the pictures but not fully understand all the details given about each country.
It would make a great family tradition to look and read during the Christmas season.
My only disappointment is that more countries(and pages)were not included.
It is high quality paper and worth the half-off the listing price that Amazon offers.
 Beautiful book, but it contains a REALLY disturbing image of a hanging child. December 30, 2007
D. Fuentes
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Christmas Around the World" is undoubtedly a gorgeous pop-up book which also provides detailed and interesting insight about Christmas customs around the world. Despite the (mostly) beautiful images and information, I can only give the book two or three stars because of a really disturbing image in the Germany section of the book. The author devotes a section to Krampus, Santa's evil helper, who, according to German legend, punishes children for their naughty ways. Although the essay about the legend is entertaining, underneath an image of a beatific Santa surrounded by children, the author included a truly frightening depiction of Krampus, complete with a silhouette of a child hanging by the neck from his pitchfork, dripping blood. My five year old (try keeping her hands off a pop-up book), isn't scared by Krampus himself and isn't really old enough to understand that the picture shows a dead child, but still, the inclusion of the image seems unnecessary to me, and is entirely inconsistent with the rest of the images in the book. I would suggest buyers take a look at the book first before purchasing to decide whether the picture might disturb the buyer or the recipient, if the book is a gift. Notwithstanding the lush design and beautiful artwork of the vast majority of the book, it probably will always be known in our house as the "scary Krampus book."
Wonderful Coffee Table Book for the Holidays! December 22, 2007
Mel Odom (Moore, OK USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
There's nothing that says CHRISTMAS like a pop-up book. I have become a believer.
I've loved the idea of pop-up books since they first came out. They tend to be expensive, but the writer in me can't help but be curious how they're made. The process has got to be a nightmare. Nothing at all like slinging a little black ink on a white page.
Pop-up books come in amazing colors, AND they have all those wonderful manipulatives that draw young eyes, hands, and minds (and those of us that are a smidge older as well).
Chuck Fischer is an artist who specializes in designs. He's created wall murals, patterns for china and crystal, as well as wallpaper and printed fabric. He's also created four pop-up books. One covered eight of the fifty states, another covered the White House, and there was one that centered on Christmas in New York.
CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD is his latest foray into the pop-up book world, and it is a magnificent display of artistry and engineering. In these books authors really can't work without pulling skills from both those professions.
In twelve fantastically colored pages, Fischer manages to take his readers around the world, just as the title promises. The tour includes England, Rome, Germany, France, Russia, and the United States. I was blown away by how tall the various displays stood up from the pages.
A lot of information is included in the booklets that accompany the pages, and youngsters of all ages will gather around to hear all the details and lore of Santa Claus in these different lands.
If you can get a copy of this book to give as a Christmas gift this year, you're going to have a wonderful family present to give. If not this year, then I'd suggest picking it up for next year. When the tree goes up, this book should be tucked beneath it for anyone to peruse, or placed on a nearby coffee table for guests and kids to meander through.
CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD has a good chance of becoming as much a family tradition as hanging lights, putting up the tree, and shaking the presents.
The Best Pop-Up Book Ever December 18, 2007
The Honourable Mr B (New Zealand)
The pop-up book, "Christmas Around The World" I think has to be the BEST pop-up book that I have ever had the joy of owning - and I have a few!
The images, pop-ups, paper engineering, the stories and information certainly brings out the magic of Christmas.
If you enjoy celebrating the Christmas Season then you cannot do without this book - something for All ages, young and old alike. Merry Christmas where ever you happen to be around the World!
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