Beauty and the Beast: An enchanting tale with super-sized pop-ups! Hardcover – October 1, 2010

Robert Sabuta is the most imaginative and talented pop-up book artist on the planet!As an avid collector of Sabuta’s masterpiece pop-up books, I found this masterpiece of artistry and paper engineering sublime.And this book goes beyond many of his beautiful works of art in concentrating on an equally stunning retelling of the story that leans into Jean Cocteau’s storyline of his spectacular and surreal Beauty and the Beast film adaptation of Mme Leprince de Beaumont’s fairytale.In considering all aspects of this incredible book, I found it very touching and surprising. It completely exceeded my expectations and it is one of my favorites in my broad Sabuta book collection.

We love this pop up book. Beautifully designed and fun for both child and adults. Will buy more from this author.

This book is beautiful! I bought it as a Christmas present for my granddaughter. She loves picking out things I. The popups. Wonderful keepsake book.

The BEST pop up book on the planet. They offer different stories as well but my 4 year old granddaughter loves it

I bought my first Sabuda book (Alice in Wonderland) about 5 years ago and I have been in love with these books ever since. I now own several and my 5 year old daughter loves them just as much as I do. I pre-ordered this for Christmas and knew I didn't need to wait for a review to buy it. Just came in yesterday and bravo to Sabuda for making another masterpiece. There are some elements of other pop-ups we have come to know and love from his previous works, but also a few new elements. The beginning of the book has three accordian style pull-out view boxes you can look in to and actually see Beauty's father walking down mirrored halls in the beasts castle. Later on you open to Beauty and the Beast dining at a table right in the middle of the book. The final page has Beauty and the Beast in the middle of a magnificent rose garden with 3-D hedges and you lift a flap to transform the Beast to a prince. As if the stunning pop-ups aren't enough, I think the two other reasons I am so dedicated to his work is that he is so respectful of the original writings of the authors. This is the original store of Beauty and the Beast, not the Disney version. Secondly he has found a way to make pop-ups books worth reading. Pop-up books are notoriously light on the wording because the pop-ups required most of the space on the page. He has incorporated pages within the pages to make them worth seeing and worth reading! This is a great way to interest a young person in reading who otherwise might not like to read. This is a MUST HAVE for any lover of pop-ups like myself, or anyone who is in love with this tale of Beauty and the Beast!

The pop ups were a real treasure of ingenuity, artistry and craftsmanship.

It wasn’t the Disney beauty and the beast story most of us are used to, so don’t expect that. It was a bit more mature so I’m not exactly ready to read it to my 3 year old but the book itself is stunning.

These books are the best! My son and I love them. We bought the whole set. The level of detail is incredible.