Books by Robert Crowther
Ships: A Pop-Up Book (Robert Crowther's Transportation Pop-up Books)
Ready to set sail? Here comes the third book in Robert Crowther's transportation series — a jam-packed, interactive look at all things nautical.
Take to the seas for a journey through nautical history! From an acclaimed 3-D master comes a fact-fi lled exploration of vessels ranging from canoes to clippers, steamships to supertankers. Loaded with flaps, pull-tabs, and pop-ups, this fascinating resource invites readers to make a Greek bireme's many oars row in rhythm, open up a luxury ocean liner to see the bustling activities on each deck, and even become the master of their own pop-up port. Ships ahoy!
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Robert Crowther's Pop-up House of Inventions: Hundreds of Fabulous Facts About Your Home
Junior trivia masters will pore over this pop-up book." — Child MagazineWould you believe that a scientist caught a cold and died while conducting experiments in early refrigeration? Did you know that soap was once made from goat fat? Can you guess how pumpernickel bread got its name? Did you know there is polytetrafl uoroethylene somewhere in your kitchen? It’s all true! It’s all amazing! And it’s all in the updated, reissued Robert Crowther’s Amazing Pop-up House of Inventions. Just step inside, open the cupboards, peek in the closets and drawers, and learn about hundreds of inventions you can fi nd right in your own home — including DVDs, MP3s, wireless headsets, and PDAs.Book Details:Format: Pop-UpPublication Date: 3/10/2009Pages: 12Reading Level: Age 6 and Up
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Opposites
by Sandra Boynton, Robert Crowther
What a concept! Little ones change things into their complete opposites with the help of this delightful interactive book from Robert Crowther.
Happy or sad? Old or new? Empty or full? Pull a tab, and a bright green crocodile's jaws go from shut to open, revealing a huge pink mouth lined with sharp white teeth. See that pretty little hummingbird? Flip a flap and a big long-necked ostrich takes its place. Now turn a wheel, and you're in for a carnival ride, circling up and down. From noted novelty-book artist Robert Crowther comes a hands-on book that makes the concept of opposites crystal clear to even the youngest readers.
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Opposites
by Sandra Boynton, Robert Crowther
From HIGH and LOW to FAST and SLOW, opposites are full of fun in this Sandra Boynton board book favorite.
Boynton’s delightful rhyming text and whimsical cast of animal characters, who play on a teeter totter, lift weights, talk on the phone, and hide under umbrellas, perfectly complement the concept of opposites while introducing little readers to new words and juxtaposing ideas.
Hot and cold
Young and old
Wet and dry
Hello! Goodbye.
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Cars
by Frank Berrios, Traditional, Robert Crowther
Mater and Lightning McQueen team-up to track down runaway tractors in this all-new Little Golden Book featuring all of your favorite characters from Disney/Pixar Cars. It's a must-have for children ages 3-7!
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Cars
by Frank Berrios, Traditional, Robert Crowther
Crazy about cars? Get in gear — and get ready for action — as Robert Crowther’s info-packed, interactive pop-up book showcases some very cool wheels.
Hop in and take a drive in the smartest, fastest automobiles — from the earliest carriages to the cars of tomorrow. With the pull of a tab or the lift of a flap, fans can ride in the first automobile, find out how engines work, see their car slide off the production line, and plenty more. And the grand finale? Feel the thrill of the racetrack by taking pole position with stock car and Formula 1 stars!
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Trains: A Pop-Up Railroad Book
3-D master Robert Crowther is right on track with an information-packed, interactive celebration of trains then and now.
Have you ever wondered how a steam engine works? Do you have a hankering to don an engineer's cap and race a locomotive under tunnels and over bridges? Loaded with flaps, pull-tabs, 3-D trains, and a spectacular pop-up model of a bustling railroad station, Robert Crowther's sturdy exploration of trains and how they work is a tour de force of paper engineering and a bonanza for railroad aficionados of all ages. What's more, it's filled to the brim with fun facts and intriguing information lurking behind, around, and even on top of its many marvelous, movable trains.
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The Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek Alphabet Book
In this classic from Robert Crowther, readers can lift the flaps and pull the tabs to find an alphabet's worth of animals. (Ages 3 and up)
Frogs that leap, hens that peck, snakes that uncoil --open this book and discover how much more there is to the alphabet than meets the eye! Letters wear the colors, stripes, or patterns of familiar and unusual animals, hinting at the wildlife riding on pull-tabs and hiding behind flaps.
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The Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek Numbers Book
In this classic from Robert Crowther, readers can lift the flaps and pull the tabs to find any number of surprises. (Ages 3 and up)
One spider descends on its thread. Nine bees fly up from their hive. Twenty snakes slither. In a pop-up counting book certain to engage young readers, each kinetic collection of creatures illustrates a number from one to twenty —then by tens, all the way up to one hundred.
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Robert Crowther's Amazing Pop-Up Big Machines
Come to the construction site and try your hand at operating the big machines with the help of amazing pop-ups, pull-out play pieces, and plenty more.
When is a pop-up book not a pop-up book? When it’s also a play space, promising hours of fun! Master paper engineer Robert Crowther has outdone himself with this celebration of captivating machines, each commanding its own space: a dump truck, bulldozer, tractor, forklift, and tower crane. Included on each spread:
* One giant pop-up machine with movable parts (and some smaller machines, too)
* A fascinating description of what the machine is and what it can do
* A fact file of cool details such as measurements and weights
* A pouch containing pull-out, easy-to-construct items such as boxes and bricks
* Tips on how to work the big machine — and get busy playing! (Sound effects to be happily provided by users.)
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Flight: A Pop-Up Book of Aircraft (Crowther's Transportation)
Get ready for takeoff! From an acclaimed 3-D master comes a jam-packed, interactive book on flying machines that will send readers soaring.
What was the first man-made object to fly, one thousand years ago? Who was the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic? How on earth (or in the air) does a modern cockpit work? Loaded with flaps, pull-tabs, and pop-ups to manipulate, this fact-filled exploration of flying machines from balloons to Boeings builds up to two big finales — an intricate pop-up cockpit that puts readers at the controls and a bustling airport runway that zooms into the future of flight.
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Robert Crowther's Pop-Up Dinosaur ABC
Presenting a stylish alphabet of dinosaurs from Robert Crowther, the prince of pop-up books.
Turn the pages to say each letter of the alphabet, then lift the flaps to reveal fascinating prehistoric beasts. Filled with ingenious pop-ups and facts about dinosaurs from allosaurus to zuniceratops, here is a book that children will enjoy again and again.
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Amazing Pop-Up Trucks
Discover what five amazing machines can do in a spectacular pop-up book of trucks!
How are car transporters loaded? Why do cement trucks have to hurry to the building site? What happens to your trash after the truck collects it from your house? Which is the biggest-ever monster truck? Do you know what a truck train is? Buckle up for a 3D, hands-on celebration of five of the most awesome trucks around from master paper engineer Robert Crowther. Each spread features:
-- A giant pop-up truck with moving parts
--A description of what the truck can do
--A photo showing the truck in real life
--A fact file of cool details
--Flaps revealing fascinating truck trivia!
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Trains: A Pop-Up Railroad Book (Robert Crowther's Transportation Pop-up Books)
3-D master Robert Crowther is right on track with an information-packed, interactive celebration of trains then and now.
Have you ever wondered how a steam engine works? Do you have a hankering to don an engineer's cap and race a locomotive under tunnels and over bridges? Loaded with flaps, pull-tabs, 3-D trains, and a spectacular pop-up model of a bustling railroad station, Robert Crowther's sturdy exploration of trains and how they work is a tour de force of paper engineering and a bonanza for railroad aficionados of all ages. What's more, it's filled to the brim with fun facts and intriguing information lurking behind, around, and even on top of its many marvelous, movable trains.
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