Robert Crowther's Pop-up House of Inventions: Hundreds of Fabulous Facts About Your Home

My grandchildren, 6 and 9, love this book. The nine-year-old is as fascinated with the interesting facts as the six-year-old is with all those tiny windows, doors, cabinets, loose floor tiles, shower curtains, to name but a few of the things that can be opened to reveal fun things. Her favorite is the cookie sheet that slides out of the oven. My favorite is the tiny pop-up book on the floor, or is it the wine cellar or the clothes in the closet--oh, I can't decide. Each page is a pop-up room in the house filled with all the appropriate things plus dozens of hidden treasures, facts and moveable parts. This is the new favorite 'toy' at Gramma's house. Highly recommended for all ages.

I ordered this book as a Lightning Deal. I intend to give it to my 8 year old for Christmas. It is so cool!! Each page has a different room of a typical house. They each pop up, and are quite intricate, with moving parts. It is chock full of information about things that we now take for granted, but have all been invented in relatively recent history. I foresee this being a book that will provide hours of enjoyment, and is full of little gems that we will continue to discover over time. My husband and I enjoyed looking over it today when it came, and I can't wait to spend more time looking at it with my daughter. I think it's appropriate for older children and adults. Definitely not something for kids younger than 8-10 years old. Any younger, and they probably wouldn't appreciate it or be able to handle the many smaller, moving parts of the pop-ups to keep from tearing or breaking them.

This book is great for children or adults. I love pop-up books. But what I love even more is when the pop-ups are more than just engaging artwork...but actually help convey the thoughts that the book is meant to convey. This book is very entertaining, educational, and fun. It's a great way to get children interested in inventions (and history), and to help them appreciate all the little things around the house. Very interactive.

I bought this book for my grandsons ages 4 and 6. The book is divided into pages with pop ups of every room in your home and the things that are usually found in that room, including the garage. The rooms each take up 2 thick board pages, and the info for each item is written next to that item. There are also lift up flaps that when opened give you even more info. Each room makes for a warm and cozy reading experience and the facts are unfamiliar which make them that more interesting. They are written so that a child from the age of 4 and up can understand them easily. The woring is simple without being babyish and to the point. My 6 year old grandson became very interested in some of the information regarding certain items he sees everyday and takes for granted. The book encouraged him to investigate other avenues of information for a particular item and he found out even more details relating to the item. He used his computer to look up more information about those items. Both boys were very interested in learning about appliances, electronic devices, simple things that are part of everyone's life and things that they use outside the home. The illustrations are well done and when viewing one of the pages, for example a 2 page spread of a kitchen it was almost like I was standing in the middle of the illustration. This is a great way to encourage youngsters to research these facts and find out more about the ordinary everyday objects that people are exposed to on a daily basis. This book makes children think, do some investigating on their own and ask question all of which to me are very significant factors and should be a part of a childs early learning experiences. How else does one learn about all the wonderful things that make our life a little easier and more enjoyable.

I am amazed: my son wants it every night. I try to put it aside and replace it with other book, but this one needs to stay in our pile of books. While there are hundreds of pieces of information that I never knew, nor was I ever interested on, my son is simply captured by all the cupboards, doors, shutters he can pull/push/open/close. We are looking for spiders and for mice and a ton of other exciting things that everybody has around the house but we do not pay attention. We've taken the book when we went on holiday for a 3 h flight and it was a great idea to keep him entertained.

This is one of the best pop up books ever published. It's nicely illustrated and is loaded with all kinds of flaps and clever pop ups. The information is fun and educational. My kids and I never get tired of reading and playing with it. I highly recommend it!

Well, the pop ups are out of this world! But I was a little disappointed in the little bits of trivia throughout the book. They were mostly descriptions of when the item was first in use (which year it was first invented, or discovered). My 7 yr old son I bought the book for was almost immediately bored by what we were reading, and soon after he was, I was too. Too many dates, way too many dates. We will keep it on the shelf, and hopefully appreciated it more as time goes on.

This book exceeded my expectations. This book is for the busy kid. So many lift-tabs and really intresting facts. I love the attention to detail! Very fun, my youngest child can take this book with him anywhere and be engrossed for a long time. Very cool!