#1 Inspiration

Slip 1 - Read a Picture Book
The book selected from my own shelf [others taking part in the challenge may have selected a different book] is: Inspiration by Ron van der Meer.

Title: Inspiration
Author: Ron van der Meer
Date started: 3/1/16
Date finished: 3/1/16
star rating: 4 out of 5
Thoughts and quotes: Inspiration is a high end quality pop-up picture book, featuring six large paper-crafted interpretations of old Chinese proverbs. The book, when properly opened makes for a bright, visual display piece. The text is clear and easy to read in a generously sized font, however despite the nature of pop-up books, I would not give this book to a young child as it could be easily damaged, especially on the first page where the pieces are suspended by cotton threads. I would have given this book 5 stars if there had been a few more pop-ups, perhaps bringing the total from 6 to 8 or even 10. This book is not commonly found in shops, but can be ordered online or ordered to specialist art gallery shops.
Background side notes: I was fortunate to attend an art gallery event in which the artist was in attendance, and was shown how this book was actually made, and allowed to handle examples of Victorian pop-ups as well, as such, this copy is signed, but the signature is not fully visible in the first photograph.