Was sieht eigentlich der Regenwurm?: Die Welt mit den Augen der Tiere sehen

by Guillaume Duprat

Sehen Hunde eigentlich Farben? Können Katzen wirklich nachts jagen ? Wie finden Insekten Pflanzen? Welche Tiere sehen besser als andere? . . . Diese und viele weitere interessante Fragen, wie Tiere sehen, beantwortet dieses Buch. Bei jedem Porträt verdeckt eine Klappe in Form einer Augenmaske die subjektive Perspektive des Tieres. Öffnet man die Klappe, zeigt sich, was genau das Tier sieht. Zusätzliche Informationen auf der Rückseite jeder Klappe verraten, wie und warum das Tier die Welt genau so wahrnimmt. Der aktuelle Stand der Wissenschaft nach Tausenden Experimenten spannend und kindgerecht umgesetzt!

Genres: Animals, Nonfiction, Science, Picture Books, Childrens, Nature, Stem

40 pages, Hardcover

First published October 17, 2013

About the author

Guillaume Duprat, born in Paris (1973), is a French author and illustrator. The majority of his books draw his references in mythology, anthropology, history of science and religion and art to revive representations of the ancient or unknown cosmos

Reviews

[Aily]

libro fichissimo, ho scoperto come vedono tantissimi animali e insetti e penso che questa cosa mi rimarrà a vita nella mente :)))

[Alyssa Mandell]

An AMAZING book with lift the flaps for each animal! Had a lot of information how animals view the world differently. I really enjoyed this book and it would make a great present for an animal lover elementary student.

[Sunday]

FASCINATING!!!! Oh, the research that must have been done to write the content and develop the visuals for this book! Thorough. Well written. Visually appealing. Conceptually, Duprat tackles what other authors have only written (but not tried to make visual) for students. The book comes in a large format and each two page spread has an image of 2-3 animals with a flap that you can pull away and see what that animal sees, actually how we think the animal sees. For example, there are two flaps that make up a horse's eyes - you push the flaps to the side and you see an image of a yard with various objects and animals - but the way the horse would see it in very dull colors. For a frog, that has poor vision, the picture (of the same yard, animals, objects as the horse) is blurred. For a hummingbird, that sees more colors than we do (so the illustrator-author does his best!) and are especially attracted to red, the same pictures is colorful with sharp images up close including vibrantly red flowers. There's a section for mammals, birds, reptiles..., and insects.

K-6 students should pick this up! There's so much that can be learned at each stage of reading. Very general to very technical details (about rods, cones, field of vision, and so forth) are included.

I'd book talk this and then leave in the classroom library. Actually, you won't have to say much. Just show it to them and then leave it to be snatched up over and over again. Once students have found joy in browsing through this, I'd pose some questions to help them focus on searching for and learning particular types of details. Examples of prompts might include:
*What is the difference in how animals with eyes on the sides of their heads (e.g., horses, cows...) see from other animals? Use information from the text (including facts about specific animals) to explain.
*Which would you rather? Two independent eyes? Or a compound eye? Make a case using facts from the text.
*Which would you rather? Have photoreceptors or eyes? Make a case using facts from the text.
*Based on Duprat's explanation of how the human eye works, choose an animal in the book and create a similar diagram explaining how that animal's eyes must work.

BTW - I found this book on the USBBY Outstanding International Book List for 2018 https://www.usbby.org/outstanding-int....
Very excited to discover What On Earth Books out of the UK (first edition published in English).

[Erin]

Fantastic picture book about different animals and their eyesight. So interesting to see what an animal sees behind each flap!

[Kerstin]

Guillaume Duprat, the award-winning author-illustrator’s latest nonfiction book “Eye Spy Wild Ways Animals See the World” is a fascinating book filled with information about mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians, worms and mollusks. It is especially focused on eyes. The reader is surprised by a flap over each animal’s eyes where, when it is opened, many more facts appear about their vision and where each animal’s eyes should be, we get to see how their vision compares with human sight. Duprat’s book is saturated with layers of information: younger readers can read the short description on each page and open the flap for the visual of what that animal sees, more advanced readers can read the dense additional information found underneath the flap. Duprat explains how humans are trichromats, seeing the world in three colors, where most mammals are dichromats, only seeing two. Duprat informs about eagles and their ultraviolet vision, and about snakes infrared vision allowing them to sneak up on prey at night. This book will mesmerize the very young to the very experienced reader.
“Eye Spy” is a well-researched nonfiction picturebook that is extra tall making the eye on the cover larger than life. The first thing we notice is that there is no title or copyright page in the beginning as expected. We are immediately thrust into the world of animals, insects, mollusks and worms. The line chosen by Duprat is a very simple one with only a decorative addition in each title font. The illustration choice is realistic, and the colors are vibrant and real. Each opening is infused with texture where, even the pages without liftable flaps encourage you to reach out to feel the pictures just to make sure. The animals fill each page with only their larger-than-life face, bringing the reader closer to each subject. French author-illustrator, Guillaume Duprat, brings four years of research in ethology, biology, psychophysiology, veterinary studies, optics, physics, and perspective together in a very accessible, visually beautiful, and mesmerizingly creative way to provide a spectrum of information for all interested readers.

[Cindy Mitchell *Kiss the Book*]

Eye Spy: Wild Ways Animals See the World by Guillaume Duprat. PICTURE BOOK/NON-FICTION. What on Earth Books, 2018. $22. 9781999802851

BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL - ADVISABLE

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH

This large format book contains a few pages of informational text on eyesight in humans and animals and then each page has an illustration of a head of one animal with flaps over the eyes that can be physically lifted. Above each head is a short description of the animal’s vision needs. The bulk of the information is behind the flaps. Underneath the flaps the reader sees a picture of what the animal is able to see and then on the flaps there is a detailed description of what that particular animal can see, with a lot of emphasis on their capacities to see color.

This book is a little deceptive because it appears to be a fun read aloud picture book with interactive flaps, but there is really a large amount of information text tucked behind the flaps. This could be a good way to get readers to pick up the book and challenge their reading. Some of the information felt redundant after a bit (different animals seeing similar colors, for example), but this is a good deep dive into animal vision.

Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher
https://kissthebookjr.blogspot.com/20...

[Lizzy Seitz]

3.0 out of 5 stars

Eye Spy Wild Ways Animals See The World is a nonfiction book that focuses on teaching it’s readers how different animals see the world. Utilizing bright colors and pop-up flaps, the reader is able to learn all about the differences between mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, worms, mollusks, and insects. This book is a great way to not only teach children that different creatures see the world differently, but can lead to a conversation about how even different people can see the world in unique ways.
Because of the interactive nature of the book, the bright colors and wonderful illustrations, this will easily keep a child ages five and up entertained while still helping them learn. The wording might be a bit difficult for the younger aged children to follow, but with the right co-reader, they will be able to follow along just fine as long as they are able to answer any questions the child might have.

[Rcltigger]

Eye Spy: Wild Ways Animals See the World, is a fascinating look into how animals see the world--literally. Informative, well-organized, and beautifully illustrated with lift-the-flap illustrations, this book will appeal to all ages. From a reading standpoint, it's best suited for upper elementary readers, but younger children will also love it for the detailed illustrations. Highly recommended, this is one of my favorite non-fiction reads in recent memory.

[Rachel]

This book was absolutely fascinating. It shows you, by lifting a flap on an animals face, how that animal sees the world around it. And then the underside of the flap explains the purpose for this type of vision or what it is in the eye of that animal that allows it to see like that. If you have ever wondered what it would be like to see the world around you like a lion or a bird or a spider... this is your book! I couldn't put it down until I'd finished it!

[Erin]

A really cool book that doesn't let its innovative layout get too out of hand. Each page has brief information on the sight of an animal, with greater detail and specifics under the eye flap for each creature.

Fascinating information, beautiful pictures, and elegant layout.

[Launna]

This is one of my new favorite books- especially about vision. It was super informative and interesting. It held our young children’s and older children’s interest. I want to see a woodcock in real life.

[Rebecca Caufman]

Wow! Wow, wow. This book is so interesting and fun to read. It has beautiful pictures of animals heads and you lift the flap at their eyes to see how they all see the same picture. So cool to compare and see the world through something else's eyes.

[Maria Martins]

Quite an informative book with lift the flap features to keep the reader engaged. It was really interesting to actually see the way animals saw things- helped understand and learn in an interactive way.

[Eileen]

Lift Flap Book

[Melissa]

Great, large format, comparative anatomy book with lifting flaps. Excellent for comparing and comprehending differnt sight abilities of animals

[Kelly]

Very interesting. Could be a little less wordy. There are a lot of details.

[Kris]

A great gift for an animal lover. The flaps are a bit too wordy. Best read with an adult caregiver if given to child grades K-3.

[Michelle Gray]

Preschool STEAM--Vision, eyes

[Liz]

Very interesting oversize books with flaps that share the world through varied animals' eyes.

[Connie Heneghan]

Great lift the flap book but would not last long in a library.
Interesting look at what different species vision is like

[MaryLibrarianOH]

Cool book of facts about animals and their vision. Use of lift-the-flaps are a great component to the book. Nonfiction loving kids will love it.

[Lupe]

Amazing and so beautiful! It's also very cool!

[Heather]

This is the coolest book ever made.

[Trish]

This is a very neat book. It shows how animals see. This is a great science/ nature book.

[Hannah]

Such an amazing book!!! So perfect for learning about animal adaptations!!

[BrookesEducationLibrarian]

A fascinating and well researched book into how animals view the world around them. Lift-the-flap for details on how each animal sees the environment around them.

[Shay]

This is such a cool book! Such a great way to display the information in a way that is accessible for kids while also being entertaining to keep their attention.

[Kym]

Love love love
Fun way to learn how animals see the world compared to the way we do.

[Lisa Mcbroom]

Fascinating book of how animals see. You see the animals eyes then behind how they see vision.

[Michelle]

Great art. I'm not sure it's entirely accurate. For example, I was always told horses can't see directly in front of them, but this book says they can.