I Spy a Candy Cane

I Spy Readers

by Jean Marzollo, Walter Wick (Illustrator)

[Scholastic Reader Level 1]

A Level 1 reader with picture clue riddles and search-and-find fun!

All new, easy-to-read riddles by Jean Marzollo are paired with fun photographs culled from previously published I Spy books to create an I Spy easy reader. With rhythm, rhyme, and picture clues, this book is written to support the newest reader!

Book Details: Format: Paperback Publication Date: 10/1/1996 Pages: 40 Reading Level: Age 4 and Up

Genres: Christmas, Childrens, Picture Books, Nonfiction, Holiday, Mathematics

32 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2004

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

[KaitandMaddie]

I like that these are quick compared to so many search and find books.

[Della Tingle]

The “I Spy” section, where children look for certain items hidden within the pictures, is fun, but what I especially appreciate about this book is the end. “I spy 2 matching words”, “I spy 2 words that start with the letter G”, “I spy 2 words that start with the letters ST”, “I spy 2 words that end with the letter Y”, and “I spy 2 words that end with the letter R” provide even more benefit to young learners.

[Absmagabs]

Okay I was better at this one

[Callum Legere]

If you look really close, you can find all the objects in I spy

[Little Champs]

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[Jodi Young]

I Spy books are always fun. In my classroom I would use this to help kids understand rhyming, locate shapes and colors and to have fun spying all the different objects. There are so many elements within this book that any classroom would benefit. You could also take this book and write about holidays or games they see within it.

[Samantha]

This is a colorful look and find book that allows children to interact with the pictures and words presented in the book. This book would be good to teach comma punctuation because they are used through out the book. There is also a lot of numbers and counting that would be good to incorporate into math lessons.

[Joanie]

Fun book to take out and read in December. I would probably set up my own I spy game after reading this book for students to follow the concept of how to play. It's also a good counting book and I would have students make a graph by drawing the quantities of the items in the pictures.

[Shunta]

This book is a good book to give early readers the pictures compliment the words on the page and there are alot of site words they may recognize. It is also good for math to count letters and ask how many of this item did they see? You can also ask them to identify objects and letters like Y.

[Sheila Read]

each page has a candy cane on it , each page has the candy cane in a different position on the each page.

[Mellanie C]

My students love the I Spy books--one book can keep a bunch of us occupied for an hour! This one is in the book nook at my school.