Herve Tullet, Author . Tate $16.50 (144p) ISBN 978-1-85437-581-0
Tullet playfully prods readers to notice their sensory experiences in this mixed-media mélange. Rather than define each sense literally, he loosely groups images under "see," "hear," "smell," "touch" and "ta
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Hervé Tullet, Chronicle/Handprint, $14.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-8118-7954-5
Tullet's brilliant creation proves that books need not lose out to electronic wizardry; his colorful dots perform every bit as engagingly as any on the screen of an iPad. "Ready?" the voiceover-style narration asks on the first page; it shows a...
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Herv%C3%A9 Tullet. Phaidon, $8.95 (14p) ISBN 978-0-7148-6188-3
As he did in Press Here, Tullet continues to explore the boundaries of book and game in this appealing wordless book, one of six new titles in the innovative Let's Play Games! series, which merges modern design with interactive free play. Each page...
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Herv%C3%A9 Tullet. Abrams/Tate, $14.50 paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-85437-946-7
As the title suggests, this oversize book has a die-cut hole—a large semicircle is cut out of the book's spine, which becomes a full circle in the center of the book when opened, serving different interactive functions in a series of spare b&w...
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Hervé Tullet. Phaidon, $14.95 paper (48p) ISBN 978-0-7148-6227-9
Readers who enjoy a structured approach to making art should feel at home with Tullet’s (Press Here) oversize collection of art “recipes.” With directions on the left-hand pages and empty plates on the right, the idea is to load up the plates with...
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Hervé Tullet. Phaidon, $9.95 (14p) ISBN 978-0-7148-6689-5
This addition to Tullet’s running series that blurs the lines between book and game lets children (or the adults reading to them) pretend to be one of seven humans, animals, or monsters. Two eye-shaped crescents are die-cut through the entire book...
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Hervé Tullet, trans. from the French by Christopher Franceschelli. Chronicle/Handprint, $15.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-4521-3735-3
The opening of Tullet’s new book continues in the vein of Press Here as the narrator instructs readers to call forth swarms of multicolored thumbprints: “Tap it again. Tap, tap, tap.” This time, though, Tullet has something to teach readers. Smudges
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Hervé Tullet. Phaidon, $29.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7148-6800-4
Tullet channels the joie de vivre of Press Here! in this
wordless (and enormous) “book,” which takes interactivity
to another level entirely. Cardboard, accordion-style pages—splattered and slathered with paint—feature die-cut holes, slots, and...
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Hervé Tullet. Tate (Abrams, dist.), $15.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-84976-247-2
Tullet counts to 10 in 10 wildly eccentric ways, channeling the energy of a messy preschool art room. In one chapter, Tullet counts by fingers—but instead of using two hands, he just keeps adding fingers on one, with the resulting appendage...
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Herve Tullet, trans. from the French by Christopher Franceschelli. Chronicle, $15.99 (68p) ISBN 978-1-4521-5477-0
Tullet (Press Here; Mix It Up!) develops his innovative, interact-with-the-book project still further as readers travel through the book with a yellow dot. "So, will you take me along? It's easy: Just follow the line with your finger," says the dot.
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Hervé Tullet, trans. from the French by Christopher Franceschelli. Handprint, $15.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-4521-6473-1
Tullet adds to his collection of books (Press Here, Mix It Up!, etc.) in which readers interact with dots on the page. This time, the painted dots designate sound: small blue dots for small sounds (“Now put your finger on the little dot and say a...
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Herve Tullet, Author, Herve Tullet, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-316-84244-0
Published last year in France as Faut Pas Confondre, this unusual, often witty paper-over-board book--with one effusive script word per spread--uses die-cut holes to establish pairs of antonyms. In a typical sequence, ""order"" is represented by...
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Hervé Tullet. Candlewick, $16.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7021-4
With plenty of self-referential good cheer, Tullet (Press Here) makes fun of picture books—and of himself, too. The fourth wall comes down immediately as a hastily scrawled cast of characters—fairy princess, pig, dog, snake, stick figure—look out of
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Hervé Tullet, trans. from the French by Christopher Franceschelli. Chronicle, $19.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-79722-146-5
Furthering his explorations of ways that readers can interact with color and form in the pages of a book, Tullet (Press Here) uses a primary palette to create a space for dance. “Ready? Place your hand here,” begins imperative text, showing a bright
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