I Spy Year-Round Challenger! A Book of Picture Riddles [Deluxe Edition] [Hardcover]

Jean Marzollo (Author), Walter Wick (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up | Series: I Spy

With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, the bestselling I Spy series is being relaunched with a new design and a foil jacket.

This bestselling book features a collection of favorite I Spy riddles that send readers searching though 12 photographs and 12 months of the year in search of hidden objects.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Eagle-eyed young readers who can't get enough of Walter Wick and Jean Marzollo's always fresh picture-riddle books (I Spy, I Spy Treasure Hunt, I Spy Gold Challenger, etc.) will be tickled pink to see this celebration of the seasons. Featuring Wick's trademark crisply photographed scenes and Marzollo's clever rhyming riddles, this festive volume follows the holidays and months of the year, asking readers to spy beach balls, shovels, and "a surfin' fella" on the sand in June, and exclamation points, a Q, erasers, and a yellow three on a classroom chalkboard in September. From January to December (with some tricky extra credit riddles at the end), "Picture riddles fill this book; / Turn the pages! Take a look! / Use your mind, use your eye; / Read the riddles--play I SPY!" (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter

From Publishers Weekly

Jean Marzollo's riddles and Walter Wick's smashing photography combine from an amalgam of previous hits in I Spy Year-Round Challenger! A Picture Book of Riddles. "I spy three walnuts, four almonds, four bows," begins January's riddle, and "The Holly and the Ivy" is from I Spy Christmas. In November's "Nature Close Up": "I spy a pencil, four blueberries, a bee/ And a winged pair of seeds from a maple tree."

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Hardcover: 40 pages
• Publisher: Cartwheel; Library ed edition (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439316340
• ISBN-13: 978-0439316347
• Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 9.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,947 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jean Marzollo was born and raised in Manchester, Connecticut.

She says, "As a child, I loved to read and sew dolls' clothes, one outfit after another. I am a graduate of Manchester High School, the University of Connecticut, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. After working as a high school English teacher and editor of Scholastic's "Let's Find Out" kindergarten magazine with Carol Devine Carson for 20 years, I began writing children's books. I have written over 130 books, including the award-winning, best-selling I SPY series for children, written completely in rhythm and rhyme. Rhythm and rhyme are like music without the tune; they lure and excite the ear. Children love rhythm and rhyme, and so do I. Do you know that I SPY actually has the same rhythm as "Old Mother Hubbard" and also rap? I treasure the beautiful, intricate photographs by Walter Wick in the I SPY books. When I wrote the first I SPY book, I automatically thought of kindergarten children so everything that I called for was concrete, something a 5-year-old can find. The result is a hunting game that children and grownups can play together successfully. Sometimes children are better than their parents! In recent years I took up painting and have begun to illustrate my own "books on paper" and "books online." You can see them on my website: jeanmarzollo.com. Writing and illustrating picture books today is as much fun as sewing dolls' clothes was when I was in third grade. As soon as I'm done with one book, I'm happily compelled to start the next."

Jean Marzollo lives in Upstate New York.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Stuff, But Nothing New!, December 26, 2001

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"annee2311" (EVANSTON, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Spy Year-Round Challenger! A Book of Picture Riddles (Hardcover)

Since this book was published in 2001, you might think that you are getting new pictures. Our family loves these pictures, but all of the photos can be found in other volumes.
If you don't have any other books in the series, this is a wonderful copy, but if you have all of the others it is a waste of money.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun to turn to again and again., May 10, 2002

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MLPlayfair (Ravenna, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Spy Year-Round Challenger! A Book of Picture Riddles (Hardcover)

I SPY YEAR ROUND CHALLENGER is filled with 12 pictures -- one for each month. Every puzzle is very different from the others. These clever photographs have beautiful colors but they're sometimes blurry or dark and hazy, and it's hard to see what's what. I wasn't always sure what I was looking for. I even believe there's a typo, making you look for one thing when it should be something else. In a couple of cases you can see only a tiny part of the thing you're supposed to find. And the extra credit riddles need to be on a foldout page so you can refer to them without flipping back and forth. Still, it's a beautiful, clever book and a lot of fun.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars rather difficult, June 19, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: I Spy Year-Round Challenger! A Book of Picture Riddles (Hardcover)

This says it is for kids from age 4 but I don't think that is quite right. The pictures are blurry and the items are not easy to find. They are quite challenging puzzles and I think the over 9 age group would be more likely to enjoy them.