Can You See What I See?: On a Scary Scary Night: Picture Puzzles to Search and Solve [Hardcover]

Walter Wick (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2008 | Age Range: 4 - 8 years | Series: Can You See What I See?

In this latest addition to the hugely successful CAN YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? series, acclaimed photographer Walter Wick welcomes readers out for some spooky search-and-find fun!

Co-creator of the popular I SPY series,Walter Wick is at it again. Mr. Wick dazzles the senses with spooky scenes that achieve new levels of aesthetic excellence! This book offers readers lots of search and find fun as they peer through pages and pages of brilliant photographic compositions looking for fascinating toys and objects.

This highly collectable book is a must.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Walter Wick is the photographer of the bestselling I Spy series as well as the author and photographer of the bestselling Can You See What I See? series. He lives with his wife, Linda, in Connecticut.

Product Details

• Age Range: 4 - 8 years
  
• Hardcover: 40 pages
• Publisher: Cartwheel Books; First Edition edition (August 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439708702
• ISBN-13: 978-0439708708
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 0.3 x 10.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

When I was young I was a reluctant reader. It was hard for me to sit still and read a book. I preferred activities that got me moving, like neighborhood ball games, bike riding, skiing, sledding, skating, climbing trees, and exploring the woods in Connecticut where I grew up.

I taught also myself to draw. I became fascinated with shapes, shading, and trying to make the objects in my drawings appear to pop out in 3-D. Later I became interested in photography. I took pictures in the woods with my camera, tinkered with equipment in the darkroom, and experimented with artistic effects.

Much later I became the photographer of the I SPY books, in collaboration with writer Jean Marzollo. I did more than take the pictures. I thought of ideas, sketched ideas, collected props, made props, built sets, arranged objects, hid objects, adjusted lights, and took a picture. Then I rearranged objects and took another picture -- sometimes over and over again.

I write as well as illustrate my own books now. In A DROP OF WATER, I combine simple text with clear photographs to explain science secrets of the everyday world. In WALTER WICK'S OPTICAL TRICKS, the everyday world is turned upside down with impossible objects, phantom images, and other perplexing illusions. With the CAN YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? series, I continue the picture-puzzle tradition, taking readers on ever more amazing adventures of the imagination in their quest for hidden objects.

Happy reading!

Walter Wick

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of fun! January 17, 2011

By Minnie

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

As with other Wick "Can you see what I see" series books, this one is excellent. Wonderful illustrations and well hidden objects can keep an adult, a 4yr old or 6yr old amused for hours! And then after you find it for the first time, you forget where it's hidden and have to do this over again. Also, we enjoy the written story (it's so well done)!!! Highly recommend these books from Wick.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome! April 20, 2011

By meg

Format:Hardcover

Great for Halloween. I love these books. Even better than I spy's with many more items to search for. My son's favorites!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent Halloween romp! October 19, 2008

By GvilleGuy

Format:Hardcover

My 3rd grade daughter and I enjoy doing look and find type books (we have a lot of Disney ones), and we recently picked up this Halloween themed one by Walter Wick, who also helped create the "I Spy" books. We bought this at the Scholastic book fair at her school.

This is an excellent Halloween look and find outing. There are 12 pages of pics that you can spend a lot of time pouring over trying to find the requested items. The production quality of the pictures is top notch, and they have just the right Halloween atmosphere.

The pages are very challenging, and there are a lot of additional items thrown in the pics, giving you plenty of "replay" options. I plan to buy the Christmas themed one next since this one was so well done.

It's also fun trying to find the red and yellow wooden robot included in every picture.