Can You See What I See? Cool Collections: Picture Puzzles to Search and Solve - Hardcover

Wick, Walter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0439617723 ISBN 13: 9780439617727

Publisher: Cartwheel Books, 2004

Synopsis

A follow-up to Can You See What I See? (22 weeks on the NY Times bestseller list!), Cool Collections has fabulous photos and search-and-find fun!

Photographer Walter Wick has created his best photographs ever for this highly collectible book that features blocks, beads, buttons, toys, and more! Readers are invited to search for fascinating objects in colorful compositions that reach a new level of aesthetic excellence! This beautiful book will be treasured by all!

About this title

About the Author

Walter Wick is the photographer of the international bestselling I Spy series as well as the author and photographer of the acclaimed Can You See What I See? series. He lives with his wife, Linda, in Miami, Florida.

Reviews

Kindergarten-Grade 3–The creator of Can You See What I See? Picture Puzzles to Search and Solve (2002) and Can You See What I See? Dream Machine (2003, both Scholastic) is back with another photographic adventure. This time, the focus is on collections, and the 12 picture puzzles feature intriguing assortments of buttons, plastic dinosaurs, nature's autumn contributions, stuffed animals, wooden blocks, and the contents of a junk drawer. The same beaded toy figure from the other titles is also concealed in each scene. As a wordsmith, Wick offers pleasing rhymes that clearly direct readers to retrieve a requisite number of objects. Once again, his photography engages, even mesmerizes viewers, though these scenarios appear a tad less complex and less tricky to solve than those found in the former volumes. The theme of collections is bound to be popular and has a classroom application for lessons dealing with sifting and sorting. An author's note unveils some of the book's mysteries and may encourage readers to create their own games and mazes with everyday items.–Gloria Koster, West School, New Canaan, CT
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K-Gr. 2. Wick, cocreator of the popular I Spy books, adds to his solo Can You See What I See? seek-and-find series with a book featuring collections. Divided into categories like "Button Fancy," "Traffic Jam," "Washed Ashore," and "Chock-a-Block," Wick's photos invite children to get lost in dazzling arrays of baubles, toys, seashells, and bric-a-brac, all drawn from collections Wick has accumulated since starting his children's book career in 1991. Unlike Wick's inaugural Can You See What I See? title, which included rebus puzzles and camouflage tricks, this book's more straightforward premise consists of images accompanied by rhyming lists of objects to be found. Kids familiar with the more challenging first book may be disappointed by the simplicity of this one, but for those who still find satisfaction in old-fashioned picture puzzles, this volume offers them up in spades. Of special interest is the author's note, in which Wick credits flea markets, junk drawers, and hardware stores as sources of inspiration, along with good old Mother Nature. Terry Glover
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Edition details

• Publisher: Cartwheel Books
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0439617723
• ISBN 13: 9780439617727
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 35