Bruce Foster and Chuck Fisher

Interviewed by Kaye Cloutman

CHUCK FISCHER – author, artist, designer – and now, interactive App creator! Chuck’s work has been featured at the Smithsonian Institution and is part of the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, The National Design Museum. His signature collections of china and crystal for LENOX, are available at Amazon.com and fine department stores in the US and Canada. Chuck Fischer is the best selling author of six pop-up books, including Angels: A Pop-Up Book, Christmas Around the World, and Christmas in New York. 2010 marks the fourth year Fischer has been honored with the commission to create the annual holiday card for The White House Historical Association.

BRUCE FOSTER – has designed nearly 40 pop-up books for publishers, museums and companies. His clients include Simon and Schuster, Random House; Little, Brown and Company; Melcher Media; becker&mayer!; Disney-Hyperion Books for Children; Candlewick Press; Sports Illustrated Kids; Up With Paper; Disney Productions; the Museum of Modern Art; Insight Editions and many more. Perhaps his biggest audience to date ironically has not come through books, but his work in films: Bruce designed the pop-ups for Disney’s “Enchanted” seen in the opening scenes and throughout the movie. Bruce lives in Houston, Texas with his lovely wife, Lori, two beautiful daughters, Nicole and Lydia, along with 1 dog, Ginger, and 4 cats

About the Book

Together with master paper engineer Bruce Foster, renowned artist Chuck Fischer breathes new life into the familiar characters of Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future with gorgeous four color pop-up scenes. Coupled with intricate paper constructions, Fischer’s charming illustrations invite you into the world of Dickens’ London so that you accompany Scrooge through his magical discovery of the true meaning of Christmas.

The entire text of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is reproduced in five removable illustrated keepsake booklets. AN introductory booklet provides a biography of Dickens and a note on the enduring appeal of this timeless story. Each turn of the page brings astonishing new sights – you will be impressed as Charles Dickens’ classic holiday story literally unfolds and comes to life before your eyes!