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The Weather: Pop-up Book by Maike Biederstadt

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In her hugely successful books Creatures Of The Deep and What’s In The Egg, as well as her enormously popular series of greeting cards for the Museum of Modern Art, Maike Biederstaedt has established herself as one of the preeminent paper artists working today. Now Biederstaedt takes book engineering to new heights as she immerses readers in five electrifying weather scenarios. As each spread unfolds, a meticulously designed landscape emerges–a freighter balances like a nutshell between high waves in the sea; a tornado takes terrifying aim at a truck trying to outrun it; a rain-spewing storm cloud towers like a skyscraper over a farm house. Nature’s delicate beauty emerges in the intricate shapes of a snowflake and in the luminous arc of a rainbow. Each page features an informative description of its weather event and the book closes with sobering commentary on the effects of climate change.

A wondrous introduction to weather for budding climatologists, this is also an artistic tour de force that collectors will treasure.

A Train Journey: A pop-up history of rail travel by Gerard Lo Monaco

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ACHUKA Book of the Day 14 Dec 2020

Created by one of the world’s leading paper engineers and art directors, Gérard Lo Monaco, A Train Journey is a beautifully layered, pop-up celebration of trains. It begins in 1829 with Robert Stephenson’s ‘Rocket’ locomotive, the most advanced of its day, which operated on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The journey then hits the heights with Manhattan’s elevated railroad: see the trains buzzing and alive among 1900 New York’s distinctive high-rises! Skipping forward to the 1920s, marvel at what was the most powerful locomotive on the London and North Eastern Railway: the ‘Flying Scotsman’, which provided a non-stop daily service from London to Edinburgh. You will then encounter the glamour of the 1930s and 40s on the celebrated Orient Express as it travels between Paris and Istanbul. Finally, you are taken on a sprint to the present to see Japan’s Shinkansen ‘Bullet’ and China’s CHR 400 high-speed intercity trains, travelling at an impressive 320 km/hr.

Follow Garard Lo Monaco on Instagram: https://instagram.com/gerardlomonaco

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First Ever LEGO Pop-Up Book Coming Next Year

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Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, has extended and expanded its publishing relationship with LEGO through 2019, which will now include World all language rights, as well as several new publishing programs, line extensions, and acquisitions. The deal was negotiated by Heidi K. Jensen, Licensing Manager at the LEGO Group and Debra Dorfman, VP & Publisher, Nonfiction & Licensing, and Lynn Smith, Global Licensing Director, at Scholastic. World English rights will be managed by Scholastic U.S., and foreign translation rights will be managed by Scholastic UK.
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New publishing will include:

· LEGO Nonfiction: Scholastic and LEGO together have developed a line of outstanding and informative—as well as funny and innovative—nonfiction books. Illustrated LEGO minifigures will introduce essential, fun facts combined with fantastic real-world photos. The line will include informational books in a variety of formats covering kids’ favourite topics such as Planets, Knights and Castles, Dinosaurs, and the Ocean, as well as beautiful gift books for the family to enjoy together.

· The first-ever LEGO POP-UP, by bestselling and award-winning paper engineer Matthew Reinhart, will be published in September 2016. This three-dimensional road trip through different LEGO universes, both past and present, takes readers on an interactive journey, brick by brightly colorful brick. Crammed with massive pop-ups, transforming pull-tabs, hidden flaps and fold-out picture guides, this extraordinary book is a celebration of LEGO things.

via Book Trade Announcements – Scholastic Extends And Expands Publishing Agreement With Lego® Through 2019.