The Saturday before Christmas, NBC’s The Today Show featured Wow! The Pop-Up Book of Sports on its Annual Holiday Gift Guide episode. John Searles, book editor for Cosmopolitan Magazine, chose the selected books and presented them on the episode. This marks the third time in the last four years that a book I paper engineered has been featured on this annual list! It joins The Pop-Up Book of Celebrity Meltdowns (2006) and Christmas Around the World (2007) from previous years. You can view a clip of the telecast by following this link: Today’s Holiday Gift List and clicking the Play Media link at the bottom of the images…. Although I think we could have done without the Tiger Woods joke, John! We were caught just as unawares as the rest of the world. Although to be fair, its just too easy, isn’t it? You can also see the telecast from 2006 by visiting the Celebrity Meltdowns page under the Book List menu above.
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Last week, my friend and fellow paper engineer, David Carter, paid a visit to the studios of Martha Stewart. David spoke briefly about his new award winning book, White Noise, before leading the TV audience through his design for a pop-up tabletop Christmas Tree. Congratulations, David, on White Noise being named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book! You can download the templates with instructions, and view David’s appearance on Martha (click here) as well as visit David at his own website, www.popupbooks.com. December 6, Kaye Guno Cloutman of The Sacramento Book Review interviewed Chuck on his career, how he came to author pop-up books and in particular, this season’s pop-up book, Angels. This is a very in depth and insightful discussion and includes a review of the book as well. Listen to this interesting audio blog to learn more about Chuck and our latest book collaboration as well as some tidbits about our next projects together… Also, the auction for the Hibiscus Children’s Center has been completed and Chuck’s pop-up book signed by none other than President Obama himself, The White House (designed in collaboration with paper engineer David Hawcock), brought the evening’s highest bid: a whopping $6500! Congratulations to Chuck, and especially the recipients of the auction proceeds, The Hibiscus Children’s Center, which earned $34,000 during the live auction and more in other bidding. Last week book reviewer and blogsite, Bermudaonion, after having reviewed Angels earlier, posted a very nice interview with me about my experiences with paper engineering. Thank you for some insightful and interesting questions! And then yesterday, Publishers Weekly Children’s Bookshelf ran a notice about our book event at Books of Wonder in New York. See Pop Go the Authors.  Books of Wonder Pop-Up Celebration 2009 Just returned from New York where I had been invited by the store’s owner, Peter Glassman, to attend the annual Books of Wonder Pop-Up Celebration. It was a fantastic experience that allowed me to present my four new books for the fall, see some old friends and make lots of new ones. Also present was Kyle Olman, Matthew Reinhart, Sam Ita, David Carter, Chuck Fischer, and Bert Fink. Kyle presented his new book of sign language for toddlers, Baby Signs; Matthew his newest release, Nursery Rhymes; Sam showed us his Christmas Tree in a Box; David the last in his incredible abstract art series, White Noise; Chuck walked us through our newest collaboration, Angels; Bert gave us some wonderful backstory to The Sound of Music for which he adapted the text; and I spoke about my other two books, Mo Willems’ Big Frog Can’t Fit In and Sports Illustrated Kids’ Wow! The Pop-Up Book of Sports. See photo. While in New York I, my wife Lori, and my good friends, Gene Vosough, Beth Bugler (my talented creative director from Sports Illustrated Kids), and her husband Tom dined at the Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurant, Nougatine. The executive pastry chef is the renowned chef/author Johnny Iuzzini, with whom I am planning a future book. Johnny surprised us with a mind-boggling display of cutting edge desserts that have to be experienced to be fully appreciated. Thank you, Johnny! Then Johnny reacted in his customarily understated way to our pop up book of sports. And I want to remind everyone about the Little Auction That Could (see previous story below). This online auction for a new library for The Hibiscus Childen’s Center is up and running. There are some once-in-a-lifetime opportunities here, including some great pop-ups. You can bid on a group of 75 books signed by an incredible group of celebrities, authors, and illustrators, including President Obama himself, who signed my friend Chuck Fischer’s White House pop up book. I myself have two interesting entries available here. My Sports Illustrated Kids book was signed by none other than Serena Williams, as seen popping up in the photo with Johnny. I also donated and signed a vintage, collector’s edition three volume set of The Lord of the Rings, the book I selected as my most influential childhood book. I would probably not be a designer if not for that book. Really. This is a great cause and an exciting opportunity for you book collectors. Lets get bidding!  Johnny Iuzzini My friends at Sports Illustrated Kids have made a video giving a sneak peek at the development of Wow! Included are glimpses of a couple of my developing dummies and a nesting sheet from the printer prior to cutting out the pieces. Still trying to learn how to post videos using this program, but in the meantime, this link will suffice…. Tom Hoffarth wrote a review a couple of weeks ago for Wow! The Pop Up Book of Sports and then contacted me for a followup interview. He has posted that interview now. You can read it here: Wow cont A Bruce Foster QandA Farther Off the Wall The original review can be found here. Just returned from Austin where I was fortunate to co-present with Mo Willems at the Texas Book Festival. This was a wonderful experience and Mo was hilarious as usual, appearing behind me on a large TV monitor via Skype. Mo gave us all a virtual tour of his New York studio and joined me in a Q/A session afterwards. The audiences were wonderful and very attentive. Thank you Madi and Emily for a wonderful introduction! After that I led 60 future pop up artists and their families through the construction of a new Big Frog pop up. This pop up will be available for download soon on this and Mo’s websites. So check back soon for that! Also making news this morning is a new online interview involving Wow! The Pop-Up Book of Sports! Click here to see this great segment on CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5442376n Sports Illustrated Kids’ Wow! The Pop-Up Book of Sports has begun to make the news! Here are a couple of clips of its appearance on some sports broadcasts. See more of this book, including a cool animation, by visiting the Book Profiles link above! Karla Preissman is a wonderfully energetic and generous person who has stepped up to the plate to create and manage a fabulous fundraising event for a library for the abused and neglected children of the Hibiscus Children’s Center in Stuart, Florida. I am privileged to have been asked by Karla to be a small part of this incredibly worthwhile and exciting event. Over 80 celebrities, including such notables as President Obama, JK Rowling, Steve Martin, and many many more have signed their favorite childhood books to be auctioned in support of this cause. Beginning on November 5th, fans, supporters, and book collectors throughout Florida and beyond will have the opportunity to bid in person or online for these highly collectible, signed editions. I urge you to visit their website to learn more and participate! There will be some once-in-a-lifetime collectibles up for grabs here! Of special note, there will be a very special collection of pop-up books in this auction and additionally, pop-up books are going to be displayed front and center at this momentous event! |
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