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By: Zoe,
on 7/22/2012
Blog: Playing by the book (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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By: Bianca Schulze,
on 2/16/2015
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By: Zoe,
on 7/22/2012
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…something beginning with B… or even BB… Yep, a Brilliant Book!
I Spy with my little eye… by Edward Gibbs takes the well known, eponymous game and transforms it into the most beautiful of books. Every other page the reader is invited to guess what “I can spy with my little eye”, through a cut-out circle that gives us a glimpse of the following illustration. Each guess is based not on what a word begins with, but rather its colour, accompanied by a short hint, for example “I spy with my little eye… something that is white. The North Pole is my home.”
Gibbs’ illustration are sumptuous. Large scale, filling each page to the brim with a bright burst of colour, his animals are majestic and rather awe inspiring. The sense of anticipation created by the peep-holes only adds to the excitement and enjoyment of these wonderful pictures, which at times remind me a little of Catherine Rayner‘s work.
A super book for learning colours, for interaction, both between reader/listener and the book, and between the adult playing the game with the child listening, I’d really love to see I Spy with my little eye… available as a board book – I think the vibrant colours, the holes, the playfulness and the short text all add up to make this a book perfect for sharing with the very youngest of children.
Inspired by this post from the Artful Parent following a suggestion from MaryAnn Kohl, I prepared some pieces of card with a variety of holes cut out to see how the children would respond. How would having holes in their drawing surface influence what they drew?
Very quickly the game became drawing a frame of some sort to go round our faces:
This made me think of What’s Wrong with My Hair? by Satoshi Kitamura, a fun book by an illustrator I particularly like, and also The Book with a Hole by 3 Comments on I spy with my little eye…, last added: 7/23/2012
We love that book! Did you see our review of it over on the Guardian Children’s Books website? http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/2012/jun/05/spy-with-my-little-eye-edward-gibbs-review?INTCMP=SRCH
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I hadn’t Elli, but it’s a fabulous review – wish I had written it!
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Rosalind, thanks for the further recommendations – it’s it great that such a simple thing as a hole can result in so much fun!