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Where's the frog? Where's the pirate? Where are the ducks? Challenge little ones to spot and name each object on the page while building language skills too. This series of books challenges kids to open their eyes and find special hidden treasures. All of the objects in the colored boxes are hiding inside each picture. Can kids spy them? Can they name each one? Whether they're searching for a boat full of penguins in the ocean or spying dinosaurs in a prehistoric scene, children will have fundiscovering new words with these big, bold, and brightly illustrated books.
16 pages, Board Book
First published February 1, 2016
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August 17, 2021
I have discovered another reason why I am destined not to be an author...
My brain is too fixated on minor details.
I'm reading this book and wondering things like: Why are most of the objects in the 'look for this' column oriented the same way as the object is in the greater picture, but the slide isn't? Why are some animals, if they are presented in multiple numbers, colored the same making it easy to find all of their iterations, and some are differently colored making it harder to find all of their iterations? If they are so careful to make sure the label of the object in the 'look for this' column is plural if there is more than one of the objects in the picture, why are they presenting non-count nouns in both their plural and singular usage? Might be a bit confusing. But then again, that's how we learn noncount nouns in English by having them presented to us, so that's probably a good thing. Then the art is terrible. I mean truly terrible. Especially the animals. On one page they had 'bears' and I looked all over and could only find one...because I couldn't even recognize that the other two animals were supposed to be bears. The rabbits and the foxes and the badgers are indistinguishable except by the ears, they have these roly-poly bodies that are dumpy and utterly divorced from reality. With a picture book that might be okay but it has to be close enough to reality to at least be recognizable and there were many instances where I couldn't recognize what the artist was trying to represent.
There was also the picture that made my brain stumble and sent me off on a quick internet search. On pages 7 and 8 there is the picture of a front yard and various objects such as snails and sandboxes to find. One of the objects to find was a worm. It took me forever to find that too, mostly because it looks like an old school lollipop and I have never seen a worm in nature curled into a perfect spiral. But that's not what made my brain stumble. What made my brain stumble was that the worm's face was in the wrong place. At least that's what I assumed. I thought an earthworm's head was the end that was closer to the flat wider tube part of the body (the clitellum or the saddle). But this artist has it on the end that is furthest from the clitellum. My immediate thought was...is that right? My secondary thought was...Oh gracious, I'm going to learn something about biology from a throwaway picture in a children's picture book. Off I went for a quick foray into the body structure of earthworms on the internet. Thank God for the marvel that it is, allowing me to quickly ascertain that: alas for the author, huzzah for me, I did remember my high school biology class and worm dissection accurately! The author put the worm's face solidly on its anus. Poor worm.
Story: I spy/Dictionary
Art: I didn't like it, but it's brightly colored
Price: $9.99
I really don't understand I Spy books...you can turn any book into an I Spy book, so I don't really understand the genre, unless it's to keep kids quiet. But I don't think these books accomplish that because they are too easy. There's a reason that Where's Waldo is an international phenomenon and everyone knows who he is, and why these kinds of books have never reached that kind of acclaim. They're too simple, and thus too boring.
My brain is too fixated on minor details.
I'm reading this book and wondering things like: Why are most of the objects in the 'look for this' column oriented the same way as the object is in the greater picture, but the slide isn't? Why are some animals, if they are presented in multiple numbers, colored the same making it easy to find all of their iterations, and some are differently colored making it harder to find all of their iterations? If they are so careful to make sure the label of the object in the 'look for this' column is plural if there is more than one of the objects in the picture, why are they presenting non-count nouns in both their plural and singular usage? Might be a bit confusing. But then again, that's how we learn noncount nouns in English by having them presented to us, so that's probably a good thing. Then the art is terrible. I mean truly terrible. Especially the animals. On one page they had 'bears' and I looked all over and could only find one...because I couldn't even recognize that the other two animals were supposed to be bears. The rabbits and the foxes and the badgers are indistinguishable except by the ears, they have these roly-poly bodies that are dumpy and utterly divorced from reality. With a picture book that might be okay but it has to be close enough to reality to at least be recognizable and there were many instances where I couldn't recognize what the artist was trying to represent.
There was also the picture that made my brain stumble and sent me off on a quick internet search. On pages 7 and 8 there is the picture of a front yard and various objects such as snails and sandboxes to find. One of the objects to find was a worm. It took me forever to find that too, mostly because it looks like an old school lollipop and I have never seen a worm in nature curled into a perfect spiral. But that's not what made my brain stumble. What made my brain stumble was that the worm's face was in the wrong place. At least that's what I assumed. I thought an earthworm's head was the end that was closer to the flat wider tube part of the body (the clitellum or the saddle). But this artist has it on the end that is furthest from the clitellum. My immediate thought was...is that right? My secondary thought was...Oh gracious, I'm going to learn something about biology from a throwaway picture in a children's picture book. Off I went for a quick foray into the body structure of earthworms on the internet. Thank God for the marvel that it is, allowing me to quickly ascertain that: alas for the author, huzzah for me, I did remember my high school biology class and worm dissection accurately! The author put the worm's face solidly on its anus. Poor worm.
Story: I spy/Dictionary
Art: I didn't like it, but it's brightly colored
Price: $9.99
I really don't understand I Spy books...you can turn any book into an I Spy book, so I don't really understand the genre, unless it's to keep kids quiet. But I don't think these books accomplish that because they are too easy. There's a reason that Where's Waldo is an international phenomenon and everyone knows who he is, and why these kinds of books have never reached that kind of acclaim. They're too simple, and thus too boring.
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