Monday, June 20, 2016

Book Review: I Spy by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick

This is, no kidding, one of the first deduction books I ever read.  Or more exactly, observation book, because there weren't a whole lot of conclusions to be made.  Just finding things.

Here's the basic info:
Title: I Spy by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick
Genre: Kids' puzzle/hidden object
Content Rating: 1

  You have one goal in I Spy: find all the things hidden in the images.  This is easier said than done, as the authors painstakingly created dioramas out of thousands of toys and objects just for this.  It's the visual equivalent of listening to a well-conducted orchestra or running your fingers through a bag of dry beans.
  There are multiple I Spy books, with themes such as fantasy, spooky night, island, etc.  Most of the time I spent "reading" them, if you could call it that, I didn't even look for the things in the pictures, I just stared at the pictures and took it all in.  I learned how to observe everything.  Deduction-wise, this is a 0% deduction book and a 100% observation book.  I highly recommend it for anybody working to develop a better eye for detail.  Other than that, there's little to say about these books other than...good luck searching!  That, and you will soon learn the feeling of "I found all the things but for some reason this one tennis ball is eluding me."  

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