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Updated Sep 3, 2007

By Mrs. Kennedy of Fussy for Alpha Mom

You should have heard my son, Jackson, when he first got his hands on this pop-up book. He opened the first page and shouted, "WOW!" He turned the next page and became thoroughly entranced. "WOW," he said. I left him in silence at the dining room table to go unload the dishwasher and all I heard in the kitchen was, "WOW." Pause. "WOW." Pause. "WOW."

A week later and it's still the first thing he shows to whoever walks through the door. Every page of Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart's Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters is a show-stopper. You'd think one complex and gorgeous pop-up of a prehistoric crocodile leaping out of the water and snapping the tail off of an iguanadon (with accompanying text) would be enough for one page, but no. On opposite corners are two smaller, four-page pop-up mini-books describing two more ancient water creatures. Every page features one expertly crafted central pop-up creature and then two, three, or four smaller pop-up pages to open in each corner. It's like twenty-two books in one. (via Alpha Mom HotSpot)