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Paper Zoo by Oscar Sabini
Description:
This ingenious and charming activity book makes it possible for anybody, ages three and up, to create colorful animal collages. Young artists tear apart decorated sheets of patterned paper, either their own or those found in the back of the book, paste them onto blank cards, also provided, and then slip them into the book’s cleverly designed paper pockets with eight different animal-shaped windows, including a roaring lion, a splashing hippo, a colorful toucan, a trumpeting elephant, a snapping crocodile, a naughty monkey, a dashing bear, and a group portrait!
My impression: What fun! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a book quite like this. An all-in-one collage tutorial with guaranteed results. Once again, a book that is consumed, and might cause challenges in the classroom or library, but a great inspiration for imaginative, creative, visual, tactile play.
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Sabini’s inspirational collage illustrations, shown on each spread of the book, are fun to look at in their own right and serve as inspiration for combining shapes and colors.
Collage illustrations, such as the work by Eric Carle and Lauren Child, continue to be popular with children, who respond well to the style and also enjoy making collage pictures themselves.
The approach of Paper Zoo is innovative, and the bold, colorful collages it makes are instantly gratifying. Unlike most children’s activity books, Paper Zoo can be used over and over to create characterful new animals with different colored papers.
A look inside “Paper Zoo,” an activity book by Oscar Sabini from Princeton Architectural Press on Vimeo.
Oscar Sabini Children’s book illustrator and paper collagist. Organizes creative workshops for children and adults. Lives and works in Venice, Italy. On Instagram, Facebook, tumblr, blog.With no words at all, Italian illustrator Oscar Sabini teaches you how to create a colourful and crazily cute collage of a toucan – from the Guardian
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Paper Zoo
Oscar Sabini
Princeton Architectural Press/
Chronicle Books
9781616894399
Cloth
$19.95