Paper engineering by Kees Moerbeek
Pictures by Chris Beatrice & Bruce Whatley
Simon & Schuster, 2011
$27.99, ages 4 and up, 14 pages.
Ten classic tales from the ancient Greek storyteller Aesop come to life in this lush, beautifully illustrated pop-up.
On the first spread, a sly-glancing Goose flutters its wings to reveal the golden egg that tempted a greedy couple in "The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg."
In a smaller pop-up to left corner of the goose, the wife's face transforms from a scowl to a look of glee as she finds her first golden egg.
But as greed gets the better of her in the last pop-up in the lower right corner, and she and her husband are left with nothing, she bemoans all that she's lost.
In the "Lion and the Mouse," the lion jumps frantically off the fold, his jaw open wide, as he tries to escape a hunter's thick. tangled ropes.
Behind small pop-up doors on either side of the main design, readers see the brave little mouse who chewed through his ropes to save him.
Other spreads tell the stories of the tortoise and the hare, the fox and crow, the wind and sun, the ants and grasshoppers and more.
Hidden in each spread is the moral of its story, written on a tiny banner resembling fortune cookie paper.
Readers have a few moments to guess the lesson before finding it tucked under an animal or behind a fold.
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