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Jean Marzollo is the author of over 100 books, including the bestselling, award-winning I SPY books as well as Home Sweet Home, Sun Song, and the Growing Tree title Do You Know New? She lives in Cold Spring, New York.

Awards:
2000 Rip Van Winkle Award by School Lib.
Media Specialists of SE NY Assoc.

The author’s Web site is www.jeanmarzollo.com.


From Walter Wick:

"I grew up in a rural part of Connecticut. We loved exploring the nearby woods. Sometimes I would find objects I could use for homemade projects. I loved to tinker and build. My first serious interest in art began with drawing and painting in high school. It was then that my brother Robert introduced me to the magic of photography. I studied photography at Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut. After graduating in 1973, I worked as a lab technician and assistant to a commercial photographer. I was fascinated with the technical challenges of making shiny surfaces, shadows, and highlights look exactly right in photographs.

In 1979, I moved to New York City and started my own studio. At first it was hard to find clients. The lack of work gave me time to explore new ideas and techniques, which resulted in a small but effective portfolio of seven images. One of these images came about almost by accident. I was organizing screws, paper clips, and other odds and ends. As I began sorting, I liked the way the objects looked spread out in my light box. After hours of careful arranging, I took a picture. This photograph of odds and ends was the spark that helped inspire the first I Spy book!

The "odds and ends" photograph caught the eye of Jean Marzollo, the editor of Let's Find Out, a kindergarten magazine published by Scholastic Inc. She asked me to photograph colorful fasteners for a poster. This poster caught the eye of editors in the Scholastic book division. In 1991, Jean Marzollo and I collaborated on I Spy: A Book of Picture Riddles.

As the I Spy series has grown, I've had opportunities to visit schools and see firsthand how kids respond to my work. It occurred to me that subjects that have long fascinated me - science and visual perception - are of interest to kids, too. That led to the creation of three books of my own:A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder; Walter Wick's Optical Tricks; and Can You See What I See?

In all the years I've worked as a photographer, I've never had a more appreciative audience than children. I suspect I'll be doing children's books for a long time to come."

From its rickety gate to its cobwebbed attic, this haunted house contains 13 spooky environments. Readers will marvel at Walter Wick's beautifully executed photographs as they travel through each enchanting scene and solve the rhyming riddles, reading the story along the way. Over two million I Spy books have been sold to date.

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