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I Spy School Days (Hardcover)
by Jean Marzollo , Walter Wick (Illustrator)
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Picture riddles, Ages 0-8, Children's books |
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The sharp, bright, and busy photographs are great mind stretchers teaching kids to concentrate and search systematically. |
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Author: Jean Marzollo , Walter Wick (Illustrator)
Publisher: Scholastic
Pub. in: March, 2005
ISBN: 0439684285
Pages: 20
Measurements: 12.4 x 9.2 x 0.3 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00169
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- Awards & Credential -
More than 2.5 million copies sold (the first five books in the series) |
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This book is as exciting for kids as it is for parents. Each page is a picture of multiple little objects. Under the picture there are several riddles, and kids can spend quite a lot of time looking for the objects. But parents can make additional riddles-so many objects are hidden or not obvious. And they can have fun too. The artwork is beautiful and sharp. While older kids can learn to be more observant, younger ones can enhance their vocabulary by learning the name of the objects with an adult's help.
Children of all ages will find something to enjoy in these pages - the young ones just looking at the absorbing pictures and the older ones searching for the myriad of items hidden within each scene. The scenes are each a two page photograph filled with many objects that revolve around a certain theme, from the alphabet to a town of blocks to a wooden marble machine that actually works. At the bottom of each scene is a riddle to tell the searcher what he or she is looking for and to provide clues. Some of the objects are easy to find, some are impossibly difficult! And for those of you who reach the end of the book and wish it wasn't over, it doesn't have to be. There are additional riddles on the last pages so you can enjoy the pictures all over again.
Target readers:
Baby pre-school
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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."
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School's open for I Spy fans, with a fun learning activity on every page. Readers will find a blackboard scene with brainteasers to solve, a classification puzzle to ponder, a nature scene to explore, and much, much more! The best and brightest yet, I Spy School Days is filled with glorious, color, two-page photographic spreads which feature brainteasers to solve in a blackboard scene, hundreds of tiny objects to ponder in a classification puzzle, Rube Goldberg contraptions to figure out, and more.
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Kurt A. Johnson, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
My ten year old son introduced me to this fun little book (it's big, but thin), which he has been looking at for several years now. It has fourteen, two-page sized pictures of a collection of odds and ends connected with school. At the bottom of each of them is a list of things that you can look for. But, read through to the end, there is a riddle about someone you'll find in each of the pictures. This is a fun book. It challenges the young reader to concentrate on what is actually on the page, and pick out certain select items. I like that my son reads it for fun, even as the book is teaching him to concentrate and search systematically. He loves this book, and so do I. We both highly recommend this book to you. |
I. Cooper, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
I find these books great mind stretchers, even for us older folks. This book especially is a learning tool because there is a page with all the letters of the alphabet surrounded by little objects that start with each letter. Another page groups things by category with overlapping categories. Really well done. |
A reader, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
The I spy school Days is a great beginner book from this series. This doesn't mean it isn't challenging by any means but the pictures; the wonderful photos even the youngest child can relate to. I know it sounds simple, but you will have to see for yourself it sound easier said then done but these are so much fun! It is very challenging, fun, and social, an excellent family event! There are extra credit riddles at the end of the book but it also is fun to make your own. The youngest little learner can really benefit from the photos in this book as it gets them going on letter, numbers and objects which they know or soon will! I can't rave enough about these books they totally intrigue me! |
A reader, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
Our daughter has loved all of the I Spy books since about 20 months of age. (Before that we only gave her the board book versions). She "reads" them even more than our 4 year old who loves them too. Little ones this age enjoy sitting with an adult identifying familiar objects while learning new ones. She gets so excited trying to find all of a particular multiple objects on one page. I would give the I Spy books ten stars if I could! A++ book! |
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