Customer Reviews

Re-Zoom

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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!

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.

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.

The first book, Zoom, is fun and fascinating when "read' for the first time. Re-zoom may be equally clever, but is basically just more of the same. If someone has seen the first book and gets the gist of the "zooming," then the predictablilty of the next page of Re-zoom takes away from the "wow" experience of the first book. If one were to read only one of these books, I would definitely recommend the first, Zoom.

If you have never seen any books by this author before then I would recommend purchasing "Zoom". It's amazing which made me slightly disappointed with this one. I was hoping it would be just as good as the first but it was harder to follow and wasn't as fun to look at. I wish I had not bought it.

Our 5 year old got this as a birthday gift...he and his 7 year old brother LOVE this book and love explaining it to adult who don't get it quick enough! A great gift! We have to get Zoom now!

This is a great activity for church groups and/or school staffs! I've done it at a pastor's retreat and at our school staff development. It was a great activity for both groups!

Our 5 year old got this as a birthday gift...he and his 7 year old brother LOVE this book and love explaining it to adults who don't get it quick enough! A great gift! We have to get Zoom now!

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. Same concept, just different pictures...eh! stick with zoom # 1 a classic which teaches a lesson in how we view the world around us.

I bought Zoom (Picture Puffins)and ReZoom to use to facilitate meetings focused on improving communications. The procedure is to cut apart the book and have the group reassemble the pages in order without showing one another the pictures. It works beautifully to start the discussion on topics such as "needing the big picture," and "working locally first, then globally" and the importance of effective one-on-one descriptive communication. I highly recommend it.

If my kids were still young, the art work and the zoom concept would be delightful and could spawn their own art projects. I'll save it for grand kids.