by Manuela Ancutici (Photographer), Ruth Prenting (Author)
Crisp design and bold colors create visual intrigue in companion title I Spy 123 as well. Families looking with their little eyes for seek-and-find activity need peer no longer. --Kirkus
Like its companion I Spy 123, this colorful search book is hiding a cornucopia of toys, sweets, foods, wooden beads, dolls, natural items and much more, all hidden within a letter. Searching for them while learning the alphabet -- as well as colors, counting, vocabulary, memory and attention -- is a fun experience of surprise and achievement.
On each letter page are short rhyming verses setting the reader's task to find specific items and providing hints of where those might be found. The answers to the rhymes -- where is that toy horse? -- are at the back of the book. This is a great book for sharing, quiet time and bedtime, and for early childhood learning, discovery, and development.
Author Biography
Manuela Ancutici is a graphic designer with a special talent for detail. To make this book and its companion I Spy 123, she searched flea markets, took apart old typewriters, bought pounds of candy, and managed to acquire an impossible variety of items to build up the letters and numbers.
Ruth Prenting has worked as an editor in a children's book publishing house for many years and is a creative writing lecturer.