'Spectacularly eerie pictures chock full of hidden objects.' - Booklist.

'A must, in multiple copies, for any Halloween collection.' - School Library Journal, starred review,.

Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, National Parenting Publication Award Honorable Mention.

A lot of mirror mazes and magic tricks.' - Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.

'Features gorgeously styled, full-spread color photos of many objects.' - Publishers Weekly, starred review.

'Definitely fun, and educational, too this is a true eye-opener.' - Los Angeles Times.

NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing.

California Children's Media Award, Honorable Mention.

The I Spy series has won numerous awards :

I Spy The View from Duck Pond Inn (2013).

I Spy Game Pack (compilation of Ultimate I Spy and I Spy Spooky Mansion, 2012).

I Spy Game Pack (compilation of I Spy Universe and I Spy Fun House, 2012).

I Spy Sticker Book & Picture Riddles (2012).

I Spy: A Book of Picture Riddles (1992)įor beginning readers Paperback readers įor babies and preschoolers Board books.

She has designed covers for books by John Updike, Joan Didion, Alice Munro, Bill Clinton and Pope John Paul II.īook list For all ages Classics Walter Wick is the author and photographer of the best-selling series Can You See What I See?.Ĭarol Carson Devine, the book designer for the first I Spy books, is art director at Alfred A. Jean Marzollo was the award-winning author of over 100 books, including Help Me Learn Numbers 0-20, Help Me Learn Addition, Help Me Learn Subtraction, Pierre the Penguin, Soccer Sam, Happy Birthday Martin Luther King, The Little Plant Doctor, In 1776, Mama Mama/Papa Papa, and I Am Water, as well as books for parents and teachers such as The New Kindergarten. I never got that lucky break in my commercial career, but all of that hard work. The success of the books has been really nice. Wick stated in a 1997 news article, 'My career can really be put into two categories: before I Spy and after I Spy. I Spy merchandise has been sold in at least 31 countries worldwide.

These served as early examples of an increasingly popular hidden object game genre. Several video games based on the I Spy books are available for Windows PC, Nintendo DS, Wii, iOS, Leapster, and Game Boy Advance, including I Spy Spooky Mansion, I Spy Treasure Hunt, and I Spy Fantasy. Each page contains a photo with objects in it, and the riddles (written in dactylic tetrameter rhyme ) accompanying the photo state which objects have to be found.Īlthough the first I Spy book contains unrelated pages of still life pictures, subsequent books are more thematic.

I Spy is a children's book series with text written by Jean Marzollo, photographs by Walter Wick, and published by Scholastic Press. For other uses, see I Spy (disambiguation).

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