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Children’s pop up book - The Jungle Race

the jungle race book J pavlin G Seda

The Jungle Race - c 1967- Published by Bancroft & Co.

Super cool children’s book from Czech illustrators G. Seda and J. Pavlin. One of many pop up books the duo illustrated during the 1960s and 70s.

The short version of this story is: a lion, an elephant and and a giraffe try to put together a race and find out that their friends are totally lame. Their loser friends include trendy Zebra fashions snobs, snorkeling hippos and an antelope that likes to get tossed in the air by a gaggle of monkeys.

the jungle race book J pavlin G Seda

the jungle race book J pavlin G Seda

the jungle race book J pavlin G Seda

the jungle race book J pavlin G Seda

the jungle race book J pavlin G Seda

the jungle race book J pavlin G Seda

the jungle race book J pavlin G Seda

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07.21.08 in Off Our Bookshelves by Dave

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Oh man, that is awesome. Where do you find all these great foreign titles? I am so jealous.

This book is wonderful. Sigh. A long time ago I used to collect pop-up books. Always thought they were phenomenal art. Thanks for posting. How did you ever get it?

That tortoise on his little scooter is just adorable!

OMG. This is so beautiful! The zebra page totally rocks!

I found it a local sale. It was mixed in with a bunch of old academic books.
I almost flipped when I saw the cover..and the colors so cool.

I’m all about the Kangaroo with the yellow glob on his back.

incredible! I had this book when i was a child! but I’m from argentina so it was an argentinian edition of this book, but as i remember it looked exacly the same!

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