I Spy: Fantasy - Hardcover

Marzollo, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0439787327 ISBN 13: 9780439787321

Publisher: Cartwheel Books, 2005

Synopsis

With rhyming riddles and search-and-find photographs, more than one million copies of I Spy Fantasy have been sold.

Thirteen amazing photographs filled with fun objects to search-and-find! Contents includes "City Blocks," "Into the Woods," "Clouds," "Yikes!," "Blast Off!," and more!

There are more than one million copies of I Spy Fantasy in print!

About this title

About the Author

JEAN MARZOLLO has written many award-winning children's books, including the I Spy books, the I Spy Little books, and Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King. Jean lives with her husband, Claudio, in New York State's Hudson Valley.

From Booklist

Gr. 1-3, younger for reading aloud. As they did in three previous books, I Spy (1992), I Spy Christmas (1992), and I Spy Mystery (1993), Marzollo and Wicks offer an oversize volume featuring incredible photographic collages. Here, fantasy is the theme, so one two-page spread is an assemblage of clouds, angels, white birds, and castles against a sky of heavenly blue; another is a woodland scene with frogs fishing, bears fiddling, and cats jamming, one on the sax, another on the bass, and yet another on the drum. The text challenges readers to find objects in the pictures: "I spy a mailbox, a feather, a flute, / A horseshoe, a beetle, a basket of fruit." One of the first questions readers may ask when they see the book is, "How did they do that?" A two-page addendum explains how Wick creates the elaborate sets for the spreads, with the final riddles written after the photos are taken. There are also suggestions for other activities, such as writing your own stories. A real imagination stretcher that can be used in a variety of ways. Ilene Cooper

Edition details

• Publisher: Cartwheel Books
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0439787327
• ISBN 13: 9780439787321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Wick Walter
• Number of pages: 40