MickeyBlog Book Review: ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas Sticker Art Puzzles’ Book is a Tricky Treat!
In the Disney’s Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Sticker Art Puzzles book, written by Arie Kaplan, you can assemble 15 different sticker art puzzles, including one of the villainous Oogie Boogie that glows in the dark! Better still, this book includes a poem that recounts the narrative of the beloved stop-animated film, as well as tons of fun facts about making the movie!
MickeyBlog was first alerted to the existence of this book from Kaplan himself, and oh boy, oh boy, are we glad we decided to check it out! For fans of The Nightmare Before Christmas, this Sticker Art Puzzle book is a must!
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Engaging Text
Did you know that when Tim Burton originally conceived of The Nightmare Before Christmas, it was written as a poem? This is just one of the fun facts that you will learn in this fun and interesting sticker book, and what’s particularly clever about this is that it also means that the fact that this book is written as a full-length poem is Nightmare coming full circle!
The Making of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Photo: D23
To supplement the facts you’ll learn in the sticker book, check out this article about the making of The Nightmare Before Christmas on the D23 website – trust me, you won’t regret it!
As you know if you picked up Kaplan’s Loki Little Golden Book (perfect for the Kid Variant in your life), he has a gift for conveying fun and engaging tales in a way that readers of any age can appreciate, and the diction of his clever rhymes may even expand some of your young reader’s vocabularies.
Loki Little Golden Book. Photo: Little Golden
Furthermore, the fun facts that appear on each page will delight fans of the movie, no matter what their age. For example, the animators kept a stash of spare arms, shoes, and hands so they could quickly replace these puppet pieces when they were broken! Now, that’s thinking on your stop-animated feet!
Photo: Simon & Schuster/MickeyBlog
Fun Sticker Activity!
In addition to the text, The Nightmare Before Christmas Sticker Art Puzzles book features fifteen sticker puzzles. Here’s how they work: first, the individual stick puzzle pieces can be found in the pages in the back of the book.
Photo: Simon & Schuster
Next, you take the pieces and assemble them on the designated sticker puzzle pages, which appear opposite the pages with Kaplan’s poem and fun facts.
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- The Nightmare Before Christmas Sticker Art Puzzles interior. Photo: Simon & Schuster
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- The Nightmare Before Christmas Sticker Art Puzzles interior. Photo: Simon & Schuster
Finally, you can check against the solution pages in the middle of the book, which offer numbered diagrams to help you figure out the proper placement for every sticker.
The Nightmare Before Christmas Sticker Art Puzzles Book
While The Nightmare Before Christmas Sticker Art Puzzles book would be tons of fun at home, this book will also be an ideal candidate for travel. Thanks to the fact that every component of the Sticker Art Puzzles are included within the covers of this book, you could easily bring it on a plane or in the car for hours of trick or treat fun!
The Nightmare Before Christmas Sticker Art Puzzles book is available now at a bookstore near you. Did you get a chance to pick it up? Let MickeyBlog know in the comment section!
