Yellow Square

by David A. Carter

First came One Red Dot , next Blue 2 , 600 Black Spots ...now Yellow Square, the fourth installment of David A. Carter's acclaimed color series! Modern and elegant paper engineering and text are certain to awe children of all ages!

Readers will search beatiful, modern pop-ups to discover the hidden yellow square on each spread in this follow up to David A. Carter's New York Times award winning, 600 Black Spots .

Genres: Picture Books, Art, Childrens

20 pages, Novelty Book

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

David A. Carter is a master paper engineer and creator of the Bugs series, which has sold more than 6 million copies. Also the author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed Color series, featuring One Red Dot, Blue 2, 600 Black Spots, Yellow Square, and White Noise, he lives in Auburn, California, with his wife and two daughters.

Reviews

[Abby · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Yellow Square is a post-modern pop-up book. Each page has non-objective paper-sculpture with a yellow square incorporated somehow. On some pages, it is easy to find the yellow square and on some pages it takes some effort to find. It's a well-designed book. The pages are fun to look at and play with even thought they are nonobjective.
This book provides a great opportunity to teach kids about modern and nonobjective art, which is often neglected. I didn't learn to appreciate non-objective art until college, and mostly because "modern art" has such a negative connotation to non-artists and we never talked about it in grade school. But, as this book shows, modern art can be fun and present a challenge as well.

[Roxanne Hsu Feldman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Superb paper engineering. Great abstract art concepts. Intriguing hidden yellow squares and entertaining text. It has delighted everyone who encountered it: from little kids to grownups. I love the page with the cow jumping over the moon and the page where you have to look through the square black frame from the side with the page zigzag-ly bunched up.

[Pirate · Rating 5 out of 5]

This and One Red Dot were fantastic gifts for my kids that I secretly "read" while they're asleep. I wish I were David Carter.

[Beth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing art. Extremely delicate.

[Audry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Modern art in pop-up form, this book makes art interactive and accessible to both kids and adults. I'm definitely going to get more pop-up books by this artist.

[Gracie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was awesome! I loved the building of shapes and the inclusion of modern art.

[KNbailey]

These interactive books are so fun. I would read this to children so they can interact with literature and make reading fun.

[Tamara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love pop-up books if you didn't know. But this one is just not my style. I think its intent was to be abstract art, and it accomplished that.

It was kind of fun looking for the yellow square using different pop-up mechanisms, but I feel really stupid that there is still one page in which the yellow square eludes me.

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

the yellow square book.I bought one last week. I liked it. it is modern art style and it is also a pop-up. it is for older kids. it has so many complected details. but I like the "spot the dot" book more.

[Emily]

A pop up book that introduces children to modern art. My husband is a graphic designer & was an art history major, so this is right up our alley.

[Fieke · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kijk- en zoekboek voor kinderen en volwassenen met abstracte pop-ups. "And a yellow square"!

[Sophia W · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another amazing example f what you can do with paper.

[Cara Byrne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Carter is a master of pop up books, taking a small square and helping it multiply and do incredible things. This is a beautiful work, though not the most engaging in narrative.

[Adrielle · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's just way cool, no other way to say it.