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I Spy Extreme Challenger! A Book of Picture Riddles (Hardcover)
by Jean Marzollo , Walter Wick (Illustrator)
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Picture riddles, Ages 4-8, Children's books |
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Difficult riddles challenge your creative thinking and observation, bringing you and your kids great interest. |
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Author: Jean Marzollo , Walter Wick (Illustrator)
Publisher: Cartwheel
Pub. in: October, 2000
ISBN: 043919900X
Pages: 40
Measurements: 12.2 x 9.2 x 0.3 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00170
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More than 2.5 million copies sold (the first five books in the series) |
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After mastering the many I Spy books, kids begged Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick for an even greater challenge. Naturally, this creative team rose to the occasion, creating the ultimate: Extreme Challenger! Open to any page and find a mind-boggling array of things: "a lobster, a pig, a guitar, / Two skulls, a button, a spring, a car." Wick's exceptional photographic skill renders every object crystal clear, whether on a blank white background or against a backdrop of dusty old bookshelves with antique toys, keys, clocks, and tools. Some pages have trays from old, old toy boxes and some pages are pure plastic paradises. There's a page of weird and toothy monsters made from pipe cleaners, corks, jelly beans and another of old seed packets, school books, chalk slate boards, ink pens and an abacus. Extra credit riddles at the end of the big, colorful book provide an additional test of readers' nimbleness, and the authors also encourage children to write their own rhyming picture riddles based on the illustrations in the book.
Some of the riddles are difficult and require some creative thinking. For example; it might say a nail and you have to remember there are nails in the wall and nails on a hand. Some you just have to have a good eye for detail. You might have to find three fish and one might be a real fish, one a button fish and one a cloud shaped like a fish. So we find hidden objects and rhyming riddles in this extremely challenging collection of far-out photos of every imaginable object from hair clips to teething rings, from spiders to masks, from dinosaurs to baseball games. Children will have a lot fun.
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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This bestselling book features a collection of favorite I Spy riddles that send readers searching 12 photographs for hidden objects.
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Charles Ashbacher, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
This book has been the source of hours of mind-stretching entertainment for my children and several hours of frustration for me. The puzzles are difficult, yet not impossible and there is nothing better in improving your powers of intense observation. They can be enjoyed by all children approximately eight years of age and older. I highly recommend it. |
J. Westerbeck, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
I have purchased the I Spy books for my daughters since they were little girls - one is now in high school and the other one is in college and they still enjoy these books. We like to have races to see who can find all of the objects first! A must have for everyone. |
J. Gaines, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
This was the #1 request on my wish list for my 2 year old son. Not only can he study the pages to find animals, trucks, and toys, I can keep occupied by the riddles. He cannot find the difficult objects, but enjoys the colors and looking for the more obvious things. All of these books are excellent. They increase concentration and problem solving. They are great for 2 years to 100 years. |
A reader, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
I think their spy series should have more than 5 stars. It deserves 100 stars! I like them because of the photos and picture riddles, those are both cool. You should definitely try to collect these books because they're SO neat. Keep them coming, marzollo & wick! And thanks for making such great books. p.s. these books are GREAT for road trips! |
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