Oliver Jeffers’ Lost and Found Pop-up

We love Oliver Jeffers here. My dad bought RoRo How to Catch a Star when we were on a day trip to Weston-super-Mare a few years ago. Reading it always brings tears to my eyes. Because it’s such a lovely story, but also because it has the added effect of reminding me of my dad.

Lost and Found brings tears to my eyes, too (yes, OK, it’s not a major accomplishment as it doesn’t take much to get my tear ducts streaming). The fairly simple tale of friendship and misunderstanding is made more evocative by Jeffers’ beautiful (and, again, seemingly simple) illustrations.

The Lost and Found Pop-up book has all the magic and emotion of the story and illustrations, with the addition of houses popping up, tabs to push and pull and flaps to open up. Both RoRo and LaLa are enchanted by the book – in particular the house that pops up at the start. Corina Fletcher has been stunning with the paper engineering.

The Lost and Found Pop-up book doesn’t feel especially robust, which has lead me to admonish ‘Be careful!’ or ‘Gently!’ to the girls as they look through it and also to keep it out of reach and only allow supervised reading. Which is a shame. It might well stand up to a good pulling and pushing read and, even if it doesn’t, I should probably let them explore it at their leisure.

But I’m not going to. It’s too nice to risk spoiling it!

Disclaimer: I was sent a copy of the book by the publisher, but this review is my honest opinion.

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