Kubla Khan

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Book Overview

A spectacular new pop-up from the creator of Griffin & Sabine. Readers of all ages have been intrigued and delighted by Nick Bantock's gift books. Now Bantock's legendary artwork attains new lyrical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670852422
• ISBN13: 9780670852420
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Book!

I am a teacher, and I used this book as a model for my students who created a pop-up book. It was a great learning tool.

Beautiful!

This little piece of art is beautifully illustrated with incredible paper engineering for the pop-ups. I was lucky enough to find it years ago in a used book store, still in almost-new condition, and I'm still enjoying it today. I have other pop-ups by Nick Bantock - the jabberwocky and the old lady who swallowed a fly - and they are all amazingly done, but this one is my favorite.

What fun!

I was lucky enough to find a 'new' copy of this book. It is wonderfully and appropriately illustrated, though not necessarily for children. I recommend this to fans of Coleridge, and to fans of eclectic books in general.

Pop-up book for grown-ups.

All right, you may not be terribly fond of Coleridge. Or you may think he was a poet-god. In either case, I recommend this pop-up version of the "drugged-out classic" (as a prof. of mine once called it) to everyone over the age of, say, 17. Bantock's imaginative use of the familiar pop-up genre, as well as his distinctive art style, accentuate the poetry perfectly. I'm still kicking myself for not buying that beaten-up copy I found in New York. This is definitely worth the search.