I'm very lucky to have had opportunities to publish a number of books, spanning a wide range of subjects. Compiling this list ended up being quite a task in itself. My earlier titles are out of print, and can be expensive and difficult to find. Looking back, I can see how my approach has evolved over the past twenty some years. When I first got into the pop-up book business, the factories that made them were heavily subsidized, so it was relatively inexpensive to make big, ambitious books with hundreds of moving pieces. It was an exciting time, but those days are long gone. Today, we need to do more with less. Many would disagree, but I welcome this change, at least on a creative level. I've also gotten more into origami and teaching. So, here are my books, in descending, roughly chronological order. I couple more are in the pipeline.
This book teaches basic origami through a follow along graphic novel. Inspired by my stint as a middle school teaching artist, consider it the third part of the Tokyo and Japan pop-up book trilogy.
This is a good introduction to Origami. Good for kids. The main challenge was coming up with 40 original models, using only basic folds. My daughter was the right age for this book when it came out. I consider that a win.
This is a follow-up to the Tokyo book. Neko runs away again and takes the bullet train to other cities. This book had a tight budget didn't get as much attention as the first, but I consider it one of my best.
This book is an adventure within an elaborate roll playing game called "Too Many Bones", It comes with cards and chips embedded within some of the pages. One of my most ambitious projects.
This was my first chance to create a pop-up book based on original fiction. It's a travel story about a young boy searching for his missing cat. It did well enough to reprint, but the second edition needed to omit a couple of pop-up spreads. They are replaced with story pages, though.
I contributed a short story to this anthology during the pandemic. It's a really great collection featuring a wide variety of comic artists. It never received the attention it deserved, because of a complicated situation with the publisher. It was nominated for an Eisner Award, though. Some of the stories are not for kids.
Based on an installation exhibit by artist Thomas Demand, this book was posed some unique challenges. I had to build the pop-ups to scale based on architectural models and blueprints. They did a great job with production and cover design.
So, this was the sequel to our Flying Dragons book. It includes paper airplanes based on flying and nonflying dinosaurs, alike. Paul finally got over his issue of not wanting to fold paper that wasn't square. A strange project, but I think these planes are quite good.
I didn't know much about Yokai when I was working on this collaboration with the talented illustrator and Yokai expert, Matt Madden. This book served as inspiration for some of my most recent projects.
This series of books is only available in French and Italian, I'm afraid. Stories for younger children.
This book only has one one Pop-up, but it's a good one. Strange story, similar to Rudoph the Red nosed Reindeer, except about a boy that can't stop farting. Includes a sound chip.
Another from this series I collaborated with a very good, uncredited Illustator; Pham Hoang Giang .
I don't think I ever got a copy of this one, but I remember liking the illustration and it looks nice online.
This is the only coloring book I've ever done. I was talked into illustrating it by the owner of this Greek language book store that used to be in Astoria, Queens while I was doing a signing there. You can't always judge a book by its cover. He was a really fascinating guy, and this was a fun, weird project.
A pop-up adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, this was the last of the classics series. Every spread is a gate fold. I really went all out in terms of engineering in this one. There are some things I would have done differently now, but the middle spread, with the argo was a hit every time I used to show it off at book fairs.
Probably the book I'm still best known for. My Dad gave me an old, beat up copy of his favorite book. I ended up reading on the subway during my commute from Brooklyn to Upper West Side Manhattan, where I was a production assistant for Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhardt. After I left that job, I became fixated on adapting Moby Dick. "Since I knew how to do this stuff", I told myself, "might as well do one book." I took me another 2 1/2 years to finish it and get published. The rest is history.
I think this is my favorite or the series.
So, I was hired to adapt this pop-up book concept by Trace Moroney. She is like the Lisa Frank of Oceania. It was a difficult project with some very specific requirements. I had never gotten a copy and forgotten all about it for a couple years. Ended up buying a used copy and was pleased by how well it came out. I wish I hadn't lost it, because it's become very rare and very.
The only Christmas book I've ever done. The factory used metal grommets instead of the plastic rivets I had intended, so some things get stuck.
This was technically my first published title. I never got a copy and forgot all about if for many years after I finished working on it. Occasinally, I've had collectors ask me to sign it, and I've seen it turn up at used bookstores. A strange project, but it was for a good cause, and my Mom liked it.