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Re-Zoom [Paperback]

Istvan Banyai
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)

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Book Description

November 1, 1998 5 - 8 yearsPicture Puffin Books
Open this wordless book and take off on mind-bending visual journeys full of twists, turns, and surprises. Zoom from an Egyptian pyramid to an exotic jungle to a sandy beach. But if you think you know where you are, guess again. For in Istvan Banyai's mysterious landscapes of pictures within pictures, nothing is ever as it seems.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Re-Zoom resumes, or more accurately, reprises, the layout and nothing-is-as-it-seems perspective of last season's Zoom. Featuring detailed drawings backpainted on animation cels, this text-free volume opens with a red-on-blue cave painting that, with the turn of a page, becomes a detail on a wristwatch. The next spread reveals that the watch belongs to a young man doing a rubbing of carved hieroglyphs... and so on. To surprise his audience, which may already expect the sequence of pictures to expand to infinity, as in Zoom, Banyai toys not only with spatial relations but with time and with cultural referents: people in 19th-century garb, admiring an image of Napoleon, turn out to be on a movie set; a woman in traditional Japanese dress sports a yellow Walkman. There are nods to the arts as well. A black-and-white Alfred Hitchcock and a blue bodhisattva sit astride a thundering elephant, and a dejected-looking Picasso rides the New York City subway. The finale-which leaves readers in a subway tunnel as the train's red taillights recede-may not be as mindbending as Zoom's outer-space flight, but is nonetheless a clever solution. All ages.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 5?This remarkable companion to Zoom (Viking, 1995) is a visual journey, a cinematic picture book without words. Viewers are shown something that turns out to be just a piece of something larger, and thus not at all what they saw (or thought they saw) in the first place. With each page, one takes a step back to see the broader context. The image of an ancient archer is just a figure on a watch, the hand wearing the watch is making a rubbing in an Egyptian tomb, which turns out to be the Obelisk of Luxor in Paris, but not really because it's just a movie set...and on and on and on, until the final page, where the lights of a subway car disappear into a tunnel to become two eyes staring in the darkness?or so it appears. While not the most technically accomplished artist, Banyai makes up for it in originality, an assured sense of design and composition, and an avant-garde sensibility that children, especially older ones, will love. He mixes traditional and contemporary images in a sly way: for example, one picture shows a woman in traditional Japanese garb, wearing a walkman, looking right at viewers with a trace of a smile on her face. His is a truly global view, moving easily from Europe to Asia to the U.S. (although you never really know where you are). Children?small people in an adult-sized world?are often fascinated with size and perspective. Re-Zoom comments on that, on reality and illusion, on visual awareness, on all sorts of things. A fun book with a lot to "say"?all in all, a valuable addition.?Lauralyn Persson, Wilmette Public Library, IL
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Age Range: 5 - 8 years
  • Paperback: 64 pages
  • Publisher: Puffin; Reprint edition (November 1, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 014055694X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140556940
  • Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 0.2 x 9.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,024 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Istvan Banyai, creator of the award-winning children's book Zoom and The Other Side, has produced illustrations for such publications as the New Yorker, Playboy, and Rolling Stone; cover art for Sony and Verve Records; and animated short films for Nickelodeon and MTV Europe. He lives in Connecticut.

Customer Reviews

Great tool for building teams. CJ  |  5 reviewers made a similar statement
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars THIS BOOK LEAVES ME SPEECHLESS...(and anyone who March 23, 2000
Format:Paperback
has read any of my other reviews knows that being speechless isn't one of my major problems :- D

There isn't a written discription of this book that is adequate... The book is entirely visual. It is one continuous picture that changes in perspective by "ZOOMING" in on a part of the prior picture. It's like looking at a snow-globe....than being in the snow-globe....than being in a picture IN the snow-globe. The artwork is fascinating and the ability to pre-think the work as a whole would have daunted me if i were the artist... What a gift this book is. I bought it for my son but it has made a much more incredable impact on any adult i show it to. if you choose this book you will NOT be sorry. And it makes and excellent gift for a person "who has everything". I think if i had to be stuck on a desert island with one book this would be it!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A visual feast of perspective! June 2, 1998
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Format:Hardcover
Banyai manages to capture the readers imagination with brilliant illustrations as he pulls away from a minute detail that becomes a bigger part of the picture. My 9 year old son and I read this masterpiece over and over and as we journeyed deeper into to pages, an overwhelming sense of the largess of the world came to mind. This is a must read! It is thought provoking and riviting.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Even Better Than Zoom September 5, 2005
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Once again Istvan Banyai takes your perception on a roller coaster ride. This amazing sequel is even better than Zoom. Thoroughly enjoyable and could also be used as part of a motivational speech on seeing things as they are and aren't. Perception isn't always reality.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars Instructions
Really like the graphics. Two problems; No instructions with the books, had to go to the internet to get the "rules" and a bit difficult to take apart. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Annette Lawler
5.0 out of 5 stars Rezoom is a good tool
I do challenge course activity and team building activities. Sorry, but I will disassemble the book, laminate the pages and have groups try to reassemble the pages in the correct... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Harry D. Bauder
5.0 out of 5 stars Just as interesting as the first Zoom book
I have purchase Zoom and Re-Zoom before and found they make interesting gifts for the artistically and
visual perspectively inclined.
Published 4 months ago by Todd R. Reis
5.0 out of 5 stars Great!
I bought the 3 Banyai books, for myself and granddaughters. Adults and children can enjoy them. I wanted the granddaughters to realize that our perception is based on our point... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Kay Meredith
5.0 out of 5 stars Team Builder
Great tool for building teams. I've used it many times. Had to take the book apart to make it work - thanks for fixing the shipping opps so quickly
Published 6 months ago by CJ
5.0 out of 5 stars Re-Zoom
This is a wonderful book that sparks imagination, discussion....with any age! I use it as a communication piece for teens and adults.
Published 13 months ago by Dee D. Lamay
4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
An old one but a good one, fascinating for all ages.
Zoom - and it's sequel Re-Zoom - are beautiful works or art in their own right, and keep you engaged time after time.
Published 13 months ago by Matthew
2.0 out of 5 stars better off with zoom #1
Buy the zoom book and you do not need re-zoom. I am not really sure why I bought this, except I thought it would be a little different, well I was wrong. Read more
Published on May 16, 2011 by Mo
5.0 out of 5 stars Great for communication game
I bought Zoom (Picture Puffins)and ReZoom to use to facilitate meetings focused on improving communications. Read more
Published on November 19, 2010 by BondsLopez
2.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the orgininal
Follows the same theme as zoom his first book but not as creative and the zoom doesnt quite line up. If I could do it again I wouldn't bother.
Published on October 26, 2010 by M. Lee
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