Oct 28, 2008

Jumping Jack Press scores Silver Moonbeam award

(CHICAGO) – Jumping Jack Press, the pop-up book imprint from Up With Paper, was honored with the Silver Moonbeam Award for the Best Pop-Up or Cut-Out Book published in 2008 for its Splish Splash, Dog Bash title.

The company’s first everyday title, Splish Splash, Dog Bash, authored by Anne and George White, illustrated by Jason O’Malley, and engineered by Bruce Foster, features a neighborhood of mischievous dogs at their annual pool party on the first day of school. The dogs plan, purchase swimwear for, and then attend a pool party in the eight-spread book filled with fun, fantastical art from O’Malley and incredible engineering and pop-ups from Foster.

The juried Moonbeam Awards honor the year’s best children’s books, authors, and illustrators. A total of 1,085 book entries were submitted by authors and publishers from the U.S. and around the world for this year’s contest. The Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards are designed to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading. The juried competition was created to honor the year’s best children’s books, authors and illustrators. Awards are given in 30 categories covering the full range of subjects, styles and age groups that children’s books are written and published in today. Further information may be found at www.moonbeamawards.com.

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 received Gold and Bronze Moonbeam Awards last year for its first two books, Halloween at the Zoo and Christmas at the Zoo. The company has announced that it will be releasing two more everyday titles in 2009, including Kirby’s Derby, a January release. Kirby’s Derby follows an amazing soap box derby that features animals driving cars that look like their favorite food, and reunites the creative team that was honored with Moonbeam Awards in 2007. Spreads from Jumping Jack Press books may be seen atwww.jumpingjackpress.com.

Originally founded as PopShots, Inc., in 1978, Up With Paper has been recognized for design excellence more than 55 times with the Greeting Card Association’s highest honor, the “LOUIE” award, including the “Card of the Year” LOUIE Award in 2005 for the company’s first Très Panache design. Up With Paper’s Treasures, Panoramics and Très Panache lines of pop-up greeting cards, as well as the company’s Très Panache Imprintables, Trinkets and Très Petites gift enclosures, Turning Points journals, 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 www.upwithpaper.com.