Love's A-Poppin'! Love YOU: A Pop-Up Book by David A. Carter

What you are is...

THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW.

David Carter's Valentine's Day treat, I Love You: A Pop-Up Book (Abrams, 2017), salutes the reader in a paragon of paper sculpture, a brief treatise on love illustrated by little masterpieces of pop-up book art that virtually explode with each page turn.

Among the pages there are spring branches adorned with blossoms and leaves, reaching out toward the reader, a rainbow with dangling hearts, a rolling, watery wave that ripples onto the shore, and an explosion of glittery hearts for the grand finale. It's like fireworks contained inside book covers.

Author-illustrator David Carter is a veteran of the toy-and-movable pop-up genre, and this creation is a work of art and a Valentine salute and inspiration to young readers and artists.