much FUN! SM This is a great thing to do by the light of the Christmas tree in the liminal space between Christmas and New Years, Very cozy. Highly recommend. Might become a tradition. A 'search to find the items' book hidden in beautiful illustrations, A wonderful way to spend some Christmas time cuddled up with this book, This series is WONDERFUL. It is hard for me to find everything, This book keeps Lexi and I busy for hours, "Everything good about original I Spy with no added sugar, " Scenes from Clement Moore's Twas the Night Before Christmas inspire twelve elegant and fascinating compositions where readers search for dozens of intriguing hidden objects, The first photograph, "The Night Before Christmas," features a gingerbread house, Christmas cookies, candles, bulbs, and more, "Visions of Sugarplums" is an abstract composition of Christmas confections and "Such a Clatter!" is a dynamic explosion of objects, In "It Must Be Saint Nick," Santa is shown in shadow and in "A Bundle of Toys," the presents in Santa's sack are revealed as a magnificent jumble, The final photograph, "Happy Christmas to All" is a beautiful, pastoral landscape, lustrous under newfallen snow, The original poem is printed on the endpapers, I bought this book for my son and it turned out to be far more challenging that what I had expected, This book received/instead of/though because had I been more informed I think I would have enjoyed the book more, Maybe this coming winter I will give the book another try! While going through my Christmas stuff this year, I came across this book and 'I Spy Christmas', I bought my copy of 'The Night Before Christmas'years ago from the local library book sale in a fairly tattered state, I repaired the book to the best of my abilities and played Can You See What I See After the Holiday Season I put the book away and it wasn't until this year that I decided to play/read it again.
The photography is stunning and enchanting, The hidden objects are sometimes in plain sight or discreetly tucked away in the photography making this book suitable for all readers, More fun with someone else, . . What a great way to spend quality time with the family! My husband and I sat listening to Christmas music and tried several of these puzzles :o I am reading this with my son and of course I am so proud of him.
He can always find the treasures! My boysampand my hubby and I love this book! Brings us all together! Great! Pretty challenging for us, Kinda wish there was an answer page, it is what it is, . . an i spy book but i thought this one was quite challenging in relation to others seen, Of course, it is holidaythemed as the title implies including lots of toys and candies/cookies, This book was chosen for Dayof my "Days of Christmas Books" blog series, here: sitelink theproblemsite. com/books Walter Wick, illustrator of the popular I Spy books, has created another visually complex and highly entertaining title in his Can You See What I See series, Readers of all ages will eagerly scrutinize every inch of the extremely detailed and wellcrafted twopage spreads, each of which depicts a pivotal moment in a wellknown fairy tale, to find the items listed in the rhyming text.
Every layout has the feel of one of Wicks Games magazine photographic puzzles, Readers will snatch this book up as soon as it hits the
shelves, Include this title in curriculum units on fairy tales and watch students eyes light up with delight as they make connections between the fairy tale genre and the items pictured.
I love that this follows the classic tale, I wish it followed it a little bit more in the images and the progression from page to page and some items were reused in multiple pages as well.
But overall fun for the holidays and it got magical toward the end, The Scary Scary Night is still my personal favourite,Picture Puzzles to Search and Solve, One of the titles in the hardest to solve of Wick's seek and find series, Rhyming text reads like a bulleted list of item to search for, this time without any picture clues to aid readers,
An author's note discusses the author's creative process of adapting the timehonored poem "The Night Before Christmas, " Grades.
Very good finding game, My brother and I had all of these I don't remember these books being this hard, lol I need a magnifying glass! My kids are better at finding the hidden items, Moderate to difficult, but enjoyable, for littler ones, If you know Rebekah, you know she really loves "I Spy" books, and this one had a Christmas theme we looked through it EVERY NIGHT this past December, on the floor in front of the Christmas tree with hot cocoa in hand.
It was so much fun! hard to find items, kept me and the kids busy! Walter Wick is an American artist and photographer best known for the elaborate images in two series of picture book activities for young children, I Spy and Can You See What I See, both published by Scholastic.
.