Look-Alikes: The More You Look, the More You See!
by Joan Steiner
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Author: Joan SteinerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-10-17
ISBN: 0316713481
Number of pages: 32
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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Book Review: A creative tour de force of art, activity, and fascinating diorama.
Summary: 5 Stars
"Look-Alikes" is a compulsively fun book for both kids and grownups. Big colorful pages tell a simple narrative of travel and city life through huge static phenomenally detailed photos of dioramas that a chock-a-block with fascinating detail and hidden visual jokes. For example, a concession stand at a train station is made out of a funnel; the 40s retro lighting fixtures at an old style deli are actually white rubber drain plugs. The central activity is to locate and identify these visual tricks. There's a snippet of text on each page that list some of them for you to find - some easy and some devilishly hard.
Beyond the "Where's Waldo" type gameplay, these images succeed on a several other levels as well. They are big and colorful and a visual feast of detail and happy narrative content. They are superb dioramas which fascinate the modeling monkey bone. They are full of trains and people and buildings and scenes. The whole assemblage conveys happiness and order while simultaneously conveying zaniness and wild abandon. It's totally great! I'd put the age range from 5 to 95.
Summary of Look-Alikes: The More You Look, the More You See!
In Look-Alike Land, the more you look, the more you see! Using everything from acorns to zippers, artist Joan Steiner has created stunning three-dimensional scenes that will amaze and captivate puzzlers of all ages."Come along! Jump aboard! Grab hold of my hand. / We're crossing the border into Look-Alike Land." So invites the opening lines of Joan Steiner's Look-Alikes, a three-dimensional miniature metropolis that's meticulously, ingeniously crafted out of everyday objects from mousetraps to milk bones. At first glance, a fancy hotel lobby seems just that, but take a closer look and you'll see a sofa made of gloves. In a sunny street scene, a building façade is laden with crackers, crayons form fence posts, and the tree is shaded by a stalk of broccoli. Children and adults alike will love poring over each picture, most of which contain more than 100 objects cleverly arranged to delight and deceive. Kids will easily identify many household objects, and the ones they may not recognize--a hosiery garter or flour sifter, for example--they'll learn from either the guide in the back or from a helpful parent. Good humor, a keen eye, and hours of hard work went into this visual marvel, which should be equally captivating for artists and I Spy fans. (Ages 5 to 105) --Karin Snelson
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