I Spy a Penguin

I Spy Readers

by Jean Marzollo, Walter Wick (Photographer)

The seventh book in the bestselling I Spy Scholastic Reader series has easy words, rebus clues, and fun search-and-find photos!
All-new, easy-to-read riddles by Jean Marzollo are paired with fun photographs culled from previously published I Spy books to create the seventh I Spy reader. With rhythm, rhyme, and picture clues, this book is written to support the newest reader.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

32 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2005

About the author

Jean Marzollo was an American children's author and illustrator best known for the I Spy series, a best-selling and award-winning collection written entirely in rhythm and rhyme and illustrated by Walter Wick. Over her career, she wrote more than 100 books for children, parents, and educators, including Help Me Learn Numbers 0-20, The Little Plant Doctor, and Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King. Born and raised in Connecticut, she graduated from the University of Connecticut and earned a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She taught high school English and later worked in educational publishing, serving for 20 years as editor of Scholastic’s Let’s Find Out Magazine. Later in life, she began illustrating her own books.

Reviews

[Patricia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Two items are located in the binding--one of the three silver jack and two and a half of the bowling pins---they are barely noticeable, which is frustrating since the premise of this book is to find the items. Also, we assumed the lonely eye belonged to the frog since it was the only thing that remotely resembled it. I would have liked to have seen more than one penguin!!! We picked it up because we thought we would be finding at least one penguin in each page.

[寿理 宮本 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I can't say I'm terribly excited about this series, but I made it a goal to review EVERY book I read (within some reason), and this was overflow from a free library where I was trying to leave some donations.

The technical aspect of this series is impressive, I admit, between having to get and arrange SO MANY tiny items, probably hundreds if not THOUSANDS of unique trinkets over multiple books—I certainly wouldn't have the patience for that!

Otherwise, the "story" is simply a short, vaguely rhyming list of a small number of things shown in each image, with points off for "rhyming" "unicorn" with "ear of corn." No tiny horn? Sock that was worn? Prickly thorn?

Probably fun for younger readers and other fans of hidden object games, but a bit flat if you aren't one of those.

[Danette · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read with Naomi and Julia.

[Cathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Occupational Therapy - Helping to structure sentences and writing for seven year old son ASD

[Rochelle Sondae · Rating 5 out of 5]

The little guy Loved this book. I began it by letting him know that he had to help me read it. He is now 3 1/2 and has listened to hundreds of stories read aloud so he's fairly familiar with how a book works. This one features a rebus style text so as I used my finger to read the sentence I would pause at each picture to have him fill in the word. He did an excellent job. I didn't correct him when he said a slightly "wrong" word i.e. "boat" instead of "ship". He was very excited to help and even corrected himself on two occasions so that the rhyme came out right. Not bad for a first read.
In the store we often recommend this series for car trips. It's a nice small format paperback that can easily be tossed in ones bag. The recommended age is preK-grade 1.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Typical I Spy book for preschoolers. Nothing special.

[Tricia · Rating 3 out of 5]

easy reader i spy book with simple text and the familiar concept of finding the objects in the pictures that is "i spy". kids enjoyed it more than one time.

[Robert · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is one of the simple I-Spy books. The pictures are good but not as involved as the books for older children. This is designed for beginning readers.

[Elisa Pereyra-Molina · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an ideal riddle picture book for a Read Aloud. This book is meant to target early readers and supports building vocabulary while being an interactive book.

[Mellanie C · Rating 5 out of 5]

I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/13104046