Nov 5, 2007

Jumping Jack Press is now award winning!

CHICAGO – Jumping Jack Press, the pop-up book imprint from Up With Paper, was honored with two awards at the First Annual Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, including the Gold Moonbeam Award for the Best Pop-Up or Cut-Out Book published in 2007 for its very first title, Halloween at the Zoo.

The juried Moonbeam Awards honor the year’s best children’s books, authors, and illustrators. A total of 862 book entries were received from authors and publishers in the US and around the world.

Formed in 2007 as the pop-up book imprint for Up With Paper, the world’s largest pop-up greeting card company, Jumping Jack Press released two books in 2007 and has announced that it will be releasing at least three new titles in 2008, including Kirby the Easter Dog in February.

The company’s first title, Halloween at the Zoo, authored by George White, illustrated by Jason O’Malley, and engineered by Bruce Foster, features exotic animals dressed in fun, fantastic costumes enjoying a magical night of trick-or-treating at the zoo. The book is the recipient of the first Gold Moonbeam Award for Best Pop-Up/Cut-Out Book.

The company’s second title, Christmas at the Zoo, from the same creative team, was honored with the Bronze (second runner-up) Moonbeam Award for Best Holiday Book published in 2007. The book depicts eight different animal species preparing for Christmas at the zoo, complete with animal-themed decorations, and culminated with a visit from Santa.

Originally founded as PopShots, Inc., in 1978, Up With Paper has been recognized for design excellence more than 50 times with the International Greeting Card Association’s highest honor, the “LOUIE” award, including the “Card of the Year” LOUIE Award in 2005 for the company’s first Tres Panache design. Up With Paper’s Treasures, Panoramics and Tres Panache lines of pop-up greeting cards, as well as the company’s Tres Panache Imprintables, Trinkets and Tres Petites gift enclosures, Travel Globes, and Pop-Up Snow Globe

Greetings are available in thousands of specialty retail outlets throughout the United States and around the world, and may be seen on the company’s website at upwithpaper.com. Spreads from books created by the company’s pop-up book imprint, Jumping Jack Press, may be viewed on the imprint’s website at jumpingjackpress.com.