The amusement park adventure begins with search-and-find riddles paired with amazing photographs from the #1 bestselling search-and-find riddle picture book series. Unplug with I SPY! Acclaimed I Spy creators Walter Wick and Jean Marzollo use everyday objects to enhance intellectual discovery. From balloons to stuffed animals to clown dolls, readers can examine the different objects, solve the picture riddles, and become an I Spy detective! The New York Times bestselling I Spy series continues to amaze search-and-find fans. The amazing photographs paired with curious rhyming puzzles will mesmerize readers of all ages. K Up-- Another in the popular "I Spy" series, this entry features the same high-quality photography, clever design, and rhyming riddles found in the two previous books. Additional challenging riddles are printed at the end of the book. Youngsters are also invited to devise their own riddles, and plenty of unnamed images are available for them to use. The fun-house theme brings glimpses of magicians' paraphernalia, tickets, toys and treats, a puppet stage, and other more or less connected objects and settings. The painted puppets who appear in many of the pictures, the image of the distorting mirrors, and a variety of painted masks may frighten preschoolers, but they are not the intended audience. A challenging, topnotch offering that's more fun than a barrel of monkeys. --Lisa Dennis, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Following the success of the first I Spy book (1992), 13 more artfully contrived photos with rhyming ``riddles'' about objects that are not so much hidden as concealed by the bright, distracting diversity of their surroundings. The fun-house theme contributes a rich source of interesting objects and also suggests creative distortions (the appealing papier-mch clowns reflected in a fun-house mirror; objects distorted in the shiny brass of horns and trumpets), while an elaborate hexagonal pattern of red and yellow stripes with toy animals and other figures, duplicated kaleidoscope-style with mirrors, almost defies analysis. A book that goes beyond the ``Waldo'' formula with its imaginatively conceived, genuinely handsome photos. ``Extra credit riddles,'' a challenge to readers to concoct more of their own, and notes on how the pictures were made are fine bonuses. (Picture book. 4-8) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. American Bookseller Pick of the Lists Publishers Weekly, starred review Publishers Weekly Bestsellers List Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 1993 "It's hard to believe that Marzollo and Wick could top their I SPY CHRISTMAS, but their latest book of picture riddles is their best yet... Bonus for readers beyond the suggested age range: the extra-credit riddles at the end are devilish indeed." -- Publishers Weekly "A challenging, topnotch offering that's more fun than a barrel of monkeys." -- School Library Journal Jean Marzollo was the award-winning author of over 100 books, including the bestselling I Spy series; 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 . Walter Wick is the photographer of the international bestselling I Spy series as well as the author and photographer of the acclaimed Can You See What I See? series. He lives with his wife, Linda, in Miami, Florida.