Great pop-up book design

Very clever stuff! Would make a good present for a young child learning the alphabet.

Most anything by Robert Sabuda is good.

The Alice in Wonderland book is fantastic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IliWkNvZZ4c

Sozlet got a book called "600 black spots" from a friend for her birthday -- very cool.

http://www.amazon.com/600-Black-Spots-Children-Collectible/dp/1416940928

There's a video in the review section but I couldn't figure out how to embed it.

One of the best presents I ever got was the book Spooner's Moving Animals. You had to cut out the paper models and put them together, building even the mechanical parts from paper.

Not quite pop up books but if Paul Spooner ever made a pop up book it would totally rock.

Paul Spooner: http://www.cabaret.co.uk/artists/paul-spooner/

a virtual pop up book teaching about the ecology

The Eco Zoo

The Eco Zoo is an educational site aimed at teaching individuals how to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle based on examples of various animals - i.e. the Kangaroo "brings his own bag" when it goes shopping, etc. So, in that respect, the concept is entertaining. However, the actual implementation - the site itself - really has me reeling. Built by Masayuki Kido, aka Roxik and his Sharikura 3D Flash engine, it is absolutely the site of the year both in terms of progressive technology, smart use of that technology with the design and overall feel.

Be sure to check out each animals "flip book" and notice that you can rotate the site (aka camera) around at almost any point in the process. Also consider how smooth the site operates and that you've probably never seen anything done like this, so well, in Flash before.

when the pop up books are open, you can click and hold your mouse and rotate the books on the horizontal and diagonal