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I Spy Extreme Challenger!: A Book of Picture Riddles

I Spy an Extreme Challenge!

Photographs by Walter Wick, Riddles by Jean Marzollo
ISBN: 0-439-19900-X
Scholastic Inc./Cartwheel Books
(800) SCHOLASTIC
Copyright 2000
40 pages, hardcover
ages 6 - 10
$13.95 (US), $17.99 (Canada)

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If you and your kids love I Spy books, add this to your "must have" list!

I Spy Extreme Challenger! is harder than any of the I Spy books we've played with. In fact, it's more colorful, more imaginative, more unique, more interesting and just more fun! It's the book that gives you MORE!

Here are a few of the zany items you'll play hide and seek with:

  • gears and star shadows
  • sewing machines and a buffalo
  • pyramids and a musical scale
  • the top of a zipper and a fingernail clipper
  • six mice and a guitar
  • a man in a plane and a rocking-horse mane
  • a flamingo and a stegosaurus
  • two skulls and eleven spiders (spooky!)
  • a frog and two mousey eyes
  • puffball shoes and "sad blue ooze"!

According to one of the creators of I Spy, Jean Marzollo, the I Spy Challenger! books were created for kids who found every single item in every I Spy book (including items listed in the Extra Credit riddles section). I am the mother to one of these kids! For all the kids who demanded harder riddles--I have good news. Your demands have been met. This book will keep you busy for a longer time! So get off the Nintendo and start checking out these "far-out" photos in this book of picture riddles!

The rhymes are wild and the photographs are top rate. What more can I say of this classic series? This wonderful arrangement of photographs and rhyming text is an excellent tool for elementary-age children. Kids can build up their visual discrimination skills, logical thinking, reading and vocabulary skills by reading this book.

Two thumb's up and a star! Go ahead and throw in a woolly mammoth, this book is all that and MORE!