Though dragons may be rare in the modern world, no one can forget the incredible dragons of the past—especially after seeing them fly off the page in vivid color! Within these pages, five dragon stories are brought to life with vibrant pop-up illustrations. Includes these five spectacular pop-up dragons!
Read this in its Greek translation. Very nice book with diverse dragon stories from allover the world. The pop-up parts are impressive enough. Of course there are only five stories and I would have preferred a bit more text, if it's impossible to have more pop-ups. But all in all it's a pretty book that also my two year old girl liked a lot!
The Pop-ups are awesome. The stories are light (being for kids), but interesting enough that it caused me to go look up the back-stories. Also the pop-ups are so intricate that this isn't gonna be spending a ton of time off the book-shelf without parental supervision :)
impressive large size pop-ups of dragons from four countries: Sweden, England, Japan and China. Interesting that these divergent cultures (and not just them) have tales of dragons, when they never existed (or did they?).
Story-wise, this book is plain boring. It includes the tales of dragons everyone interested in them has probably already read/heard but does not go deep in detail, and it's very white-knight-centric. (The last story might be the exeption to this rule, though...) Text-wise, it isn't anything remarkable. But as far as illustrations and all that stuff goes... well, it's ust pretty darn beautiful, isn't it?
Eh. Could have been way cooler. But I think I have been totally spoiled by some of the other pop-up books I have bought on Amazon. Check out "The Pop-Up Books of Ships" if you want a truly amazing pop-up experience. My kids still really enjoying this book, and they are the audience that needs to be entertained by it not me.