The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Yarrow, Peter , Lipton, Lenny

Puff the Magic Dragon: Pop-Up Book

14 pp. | Sterling | November, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4027-8711-9 $26.95
New ed. (2007)

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Eric Puybaret. Paper engineering by Bruce Foster. First it was a song, then a picture book, now a pop-up book packaged with a CD. Puybaret's dreamy computer-generated illustrations leap off the page and from behind flaps in a book of greater interest to sentimental adults and collectors than young children. The art is appropriately wistful, but the story never comes to life, despite the elaborate packaging.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth