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- Stunning fantasy-adventure scenes filled with things to find, mysteries to solve and colorful creatures and characters to outwit.
- GenresFantasy
32 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 1999
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About the author
Felicity Brooks
443 books29 followersFelicity Brooks is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She studied English and Drama at Exeter University and worked as an actor, teacher and lexicographer (someone who compiles dictionaries) before starting work in children’s publishing in the late 1980s.
She has written and edited hundreds of children’s books, including stories and novelty books for pre-schoolers and books about history, geography, languages, science, maths, nature and the arts.
Her books have won the TES Senior Information Book Award, the Aventis Science Books Prize, the SLA Information Book Award, the Sheffield Baby Books Award and Practical Pre-school Gold and Silver Awards.
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October 26, 2025
Conceptually intriguing, but I found this book highly frustrating on multiple levels.
First off, I think when it comes to seek-and-find books you have to have a certain level of trade-off between detail and clarity: too much shading and/or blending, and it makes it far too difficult to tell things apart in a busy scene. While the artwork in this book was lovely as a whole, it was too complex and left too much room for guesswork when it came down to the details (i.e. Is that a tail or fabric? Is that a balloon or the top of a person's head?). There just wasn't enough contrast to tell things apart, especially in the sections that were 'farther away'. If I can't tell what I'm even looking at, how am I supposed to find specific objects (or, rather a tiny part of a larger object)?
Also, I take issue with the method in which the answers are shown: numerically?? I flip to the back in search of answers, not for a second, more frustrating I-Spy of the same page. I should not be scouring for a tiny 26 (out of 110, mind you) in the answers so that I can flip back to the actual scene to see what was supposedly representing a lollipop. Color code that shit.
First off, I think when it comes to seek-and-find books you have to have a certain level of trade-off between detail and clarity: too much shading and/or blending, and it makes it far too difficult to tell things apart in a busy scene. While the artwork in this book was lovely as a whole, it was too complex and left too much room for guesswork when it came down to the details (i.e. Is that a tail or fabric? Is that a balloon or the top of a person's head?). There just wasn't enough contrast to tell things apart, especially in the sections that were 'farther away'. If I can't tell what I'm even looking at, how am I supposed to find specific objects (or, rather a tiny part of a larger object)?
Also, I take issue with the method in which the answers are shown: numerically?? I flip to the back in search of answers, not for a second, more frustrating I-Spy of the same page. I should not be scouring for a tiny 26 (out of 110, mind you) in the answers so that I can flip back to the actual scene to see what was supposedly representing a lollipop. Color code that shit.
May 27, 2024
Not as good as Dragon Quest, but better than Sword Quest.
July 22, 2009
My son enjoyed this
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