The Wallace and Gromit A Close Shave Pop-Up Book

by Nick Park

A pop-up book based on the Wallace and Gromit cartoon, A Close Shave.

Genres: Film, Childrens

14 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Nicholas Wulstan Park, CBE, RDI (born 6 December 1958), is an English animator, director and writer best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit, Creature Comforts, and Shaun the Sheep. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times and won four with Creature Comforts (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).

He has also received five BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for A Matter of Loaf and Death, which was also the most watched television programme in the United Kingdom in 2008. His 2000 film Chicken Run is the highest-grossing stop motion animated film.

For his work in animation, in 2012, Park was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of Blake's most famous artwork—the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover—to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life.

Reviews

[Manny · Rating 4 out of 5]

I once saw Buñuel's Belle du Jour referred to as "the Rolls-Royce of sex films". This is the Rolls-Royce of pop-up books. And when you think about it, who would do it better than Aardman, with their trademark combination of quirkiness, brilliant sight gags, and impeccable craftsmanship?

We have had the book since 1996, and it has been enjoyed by dozens of kids since then. It's 4-year-old Samuel's second-favorite, after the Gunilla Bergström series, and he looks at it most times he comes to see us. Yesterday, 12-year-old Sasha also read it with evident enjoyment, running each pop-up. All but one of them still work - those Aardman guys are good engineers!

[Elifnaz]

Tabii ki okulda ders zoruna okumadık ne diyosun rjjd

[Ligaya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Who doesn't love Wallace and Gromit? And combined with pop-ups, this book is a certain winner. If you don't know the Close Shave story line, you might not understand it just by reading this book, but no bother, that's not really the point. Fun illustrations, great pop-ups, and, did I mention, it's Wallace and Gromit!

[Cengiz Orkun · Rating 5 out of 5]

its my homework

[Bettie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short , sharp and very very snappy... Dogsteovesky does Crime and Punishment bwhahaha

[Bridget]

On the hardcover shelf.