This is a rather unusual pop-up book because it has virtually no color, just white light card stock revealing a sort of landscape with flowers, shrubs, trees, animals and on the last page a lily pond, made out of mirror paper. I wouldn't class it as a straightforward book for children more like something to share with adults and children.
There are only five spreads but the open up to very clever paper engineering and you wonder how they all fold flat. The last spread, with the lily does have a bit of color, some green leaves on the underside of white leaves with a snail in them, the green is only viewable as a reflection in the pond. Also on this spread there is a dragonfly with wings made of plastic and two three-dimensional flowers that don't fold up but fit into the lily pond recess. There is a hands-on element as well, David Pelham has written a poem that is accessed by turning a notched wheel on each page which reveals the poem in a curved cut-out section.
Despite the almost complete absence of color I've always enjoyed looking through Trail to admire the sheer cleverness of the intricate pop-ups.
UK
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