This is a wonderful pop-up book, filled with lots of facts and details about inventions we all know and use. A treasure house of facts and fun.

Have you ever wondered how long the teabag has been around, or the envelope, the toothbrush, the pencil or the pillow? Do you know who invented the venetian blinds, the jigsaw puzzle or blue jeans? Robert Crowther answers these and hundred of other questions, about where you live, in his amazing pop-up book of home inventions. Each room in this house is meticulously created with great attention to detail and full of fun facts and trivia. This book will keep your youngsters occupied for hours at a time, as they lift, open and examine the items of each room and learn about some of the many inventions that changed the way we live. Terrific for kids and adults of all ages, Robert Crowther's Amazing Pop-Up House of Inventions is a winner!

I just gave this book to my mom....she spent hours with it! Children's books aren't just for kids anymore.

I really like this book. I'm 9 years old. I liked how there were drawings and interesting facts in between the pages. I liked the tab with the truck and the tab with the train especially. My favorite page was the tunnel page. Robert Crowther makes fun books! This one was the best pop-up book I've ever read!

Great 'boy' book, although not JUST for boys, about everything that goes or happens underground......lots of cool info AND instead of mechanics being hidden behind the sealed pages, they are available and explained by the author/artist/mechanic.....very cool book.

This is a great book. We got our son's copy a couple years ago, and have since moved to the UK. The trip the train makes is full of local colour, and this book is a favorite of John's and his little sister. The illustrations are loaded with fun details, with simple captions to read for early readers. As a parent, this is not one of those books that get's repetitive, it just stays fun. The only negtive, and this goes for any interactive book, the pull tabs and flaps are fairly fragile, so be gentle with them. Having said this, if you can find a copy, get it. It would be well worth the effort.

Great way to keep the attention of a little one who's trying to learn the alphabet.....my favorites are "dog", "ladder" (an optical illusion) and "pencil". If you love pop ups, you'll love this one.

This book is one of the coolest pop up books I have ever seen!!!!This book I would say is geared toward 6-10 years old but I know tons of people above this age level that would love it. The book is mainly about all the atractions that you would see at a typical county fair. This book show all of visitors riding the rides and you can pull the tabs and watch all the atractions move. Get this book for you or your child and you will love playing with it. This book is mildly detailed and it is definately recomended for every age.

My nephews loved this book, looking for the bear, crocodile and giraffe in the crowds (Waldo, too!), to the Olympic medal at the end.

My son Alexander can't wait to read about Tractors and Trucks in Robert Crowther's animated and 'moving' book. Pull the flaps and move the car or truck to reveal an engine falling out or a rabbit running from the tractor. Animals and, especially, dogs are featured appearing on the brighly colored trucks and tractors. Truly a young, toddler pleaser !!

This book is for ages 4-8. But do parents really want to wait until a child is 4 to begin teaching colors? I know I don't.
Knowing that, my daughter is almost 4 and has had this book over a year. She doesn't intentionally destroy things yet somehow she has torn out one of the tabs completely and some of the flaps. Don't get me wrong. COLORS is a good, fun, educational book my child LOVES! It just isn't very durable for the NEEDED age group, in my opinion, that it SHOULD HAVE BEEN MARKETED FOR. (Colors can be taught before a child begins to speak, just hand them an object and state its color.) COLORS needs TRUE primary and secondary colors! It has primary red (great), primary yellow (terrific), a lime green (huh?), soft pink (why?), light blue (needs to be primary blue), a true secondary orange (good!), and then white and black. All I'm saying is the colors should have been taken from the color wheel and sequenced so--Red, purple, Blue, green, Yellow and orange. White and black are good to have in there, I agree.

I give it 4 stars because of the following SUPERB features:

1 Even though one of the tabs and page got ripped the book is VERY STURDY and WELL MADE. Accidents happen, she just got frustrated and couldn't pull the tab down so she ripped it down.
2 EACH COLOR IS SPELT OUT when my daughter pulls the tab on the left side of the full page spread of each color (bravo-helps me teach spelling/sounding out the word.)
3 The pull out tab pictures and lift flaps on the right are FAMILIAR and POPULAR OBJECTS to my daughter and are a GREAT REINFORCEMENT of the color she is viewing.
4 SHE LOVES IT! And that is what matters the most.

BOTTOM LINE: If the tabs were stronger and the colors truer (all primary and secondary,) then this would have been a 5 star book.

Robert Crowther is back and exploring color and youngsters won't be able to get enough of this book. Made with heavy, durable stock, each two page spread introduces and concentrates on one bold, vibrant color (red, yellow, green, pink, blue, orange, black and white), by first introducing the color name and then using creative pictures to teach, and little hands will lift flaps and pull tabs to see and learn more. With 80 hidden pictures and 30 pull tabs, this is the perfect interactive book for pre-schoolers as young as two.

The ape that peeps out from behind the "a" is ant sized, features only the head, and is a dull grey in color. Similarly,very few of the, pop-ups, slides, or tabs reveal compelling colorful, well illustrated animals. I personally DID appreciate the black and white, uncluttered presentation of letters, but I DO feel that the peek out illustrations could have been improved upon. The ape, the bear etc, hiding behind the first two letters are badly drawn -- cartoonish is being too kind. Given my 13 mo old son's reaction to it, as opposed to his response to Chuck Murphy's amazing little pop-up books, I would say pass on it.

My 15 month old adores this book. It's wonderful-much cleverer than the other pop-up books we have (and we have a lot!). I'm giving this to all his friends for Christmas.

Just read the unhappy person's review....same review in two places...hmmm. I loved this book. Things today all have to pop and flash to keep kid's attention. Sometimes, I think, simple is best. This book is exactly what it says, an abc book.... I haven't seen a child yet who didn't want to lift the flaps again and again! My granddaughter won't go to sleep at night without this book!

If you are looking for a plain-jane numbers book to teach your kids just numbers with some okay pulltabs and flipcovers. Or, if you believe in the theory of kids learning better with just simple black-n-white contrasting colors on a blank page. Get This! don't wait. I got this book after I saw the cover, thinking that the insides will be colorful backgrounds with animals hanging all over the numbers; and maybe more animals when you pull tabs or flip open covers. NO! here is what I got, colorful hardbound cover. Except for the inside of the front cover and inside of the back cover (which has some animal print motif as the background) Every single one of the 10 inside pages were blank-noir (yes, there are only 10 - because nobody in the publishing business ever counts the front and back cover as pages). White - no background of animals or colorful splashes. Solid black numbers with pulltabs or flip-open covers of moderately interesting(yawn) animals... The publisher of this book should have mentioned the fact that they intended in saving money by skipping on the ink. Yes, I am afraid that Amazon's little editoral synopsis's of "full color" applies only to the cardboard cover itself.

I don't think I am expecting too much here. I am expecting some fun colors in the background of the numbers. I got ripped! This is not a book for 3 and older kids. Maybe better for an extremely young infant before they have discovered the world of colors.

2 star only because it does have pull outs of animals, and compared to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0763607320 - Robert Crowther's Most Amazing Hide-And-Seek Alphabet Book, the action on the pullout and the flipcovers produces much improved and more interesting affects (To be fair, I got interested in the action on some of the pullouts for about 5 minutes, and as usual, my kids derived a bit more out of this... still I have seen comparable, if not better, pullouts with more thought provoking backgrounds...) (and to be even fairer, note that it goes beyond 1 to 10, on the last few pages, it goes thru 20 thru 100 by tens; and these larger numbers hide that many number of tiny critters under the corresponding tab - cute).

If you like minimalism, you will like this book. Some of the pop-ups are nice, but with only black numbers on a white page, there is not much to attract a younger child. My 13 mo old thoroughly enjoys every tab, and flap of Chuck Murphy's pop-up books, here, most of them are blah, since they come with miniscule portions of animals, though some effects are cute. I liked the 10 butterflies, and more of the same would have been good! And while being small, the illustrations are not even totally true to life/realistic etc. as a saving grace. They look like doodles you or I might do on the magna-doodle!

I have given this book to many children and ALL have loved it! I would recommend any of the books by this author/illustrator to parents with young children, but they may want to keep some for themselves. Few books offer the simpilicity that this one does...and all the children I have shared this book with have wanted to read it again and again. I guess that is part of what makes the world go around....we all like different things, but I have never seen a child put this book back on the shelf and ask for another!