I Spy a Scary Monster

I Spy Readers

by Jean Marzollo, Walter Wick (Photographer)

[Scholastic Reader Level 1]

Easy to read sentences along with pictures to aid reader to find the clues as they play I Spy.

Genres: Childrens, Halloween, Monsters, Kids, Picture Books

32 pages, Library Binding

First published August 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

[Little Champs]

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[Jecel Cortes · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a good book that was a little kid scary put the good thing is that you have to fined hinder stuff.

[Kelly Chester · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super cute book

[Kelsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very cool way to combine I Spy and Halloween (or the general idea of monsters).

[Caspette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another great book in the series, especially for reluctant readers. Simple words and items to find so the child is learning to read and do activities. Winning.

[Jessicca · Rating 4 out of 5]

The “I Spy” game in book form. The recto has a photograph and the verso has the bolded words for what the author sees. Where it says “I spy a witch”, there is a picture of what the witch looks like so the children know what they are looking for in the photograph on the opposite page. Towards the end, instead of comparing what the reader spies with a picture, it turns to a text game of I Spy. The last page has a Fluency Fun page. Suggested by Scholastic as a Scholastic Reader Level 1.

[Kelly Wickham · Rating 4 out of 5]

These "I Spy" books have nothing intellectual to offer adults, but the small children love them! 4 year old Marcos will choose these books over and over and never get tired of finding the different objects on each page. While kind of agonizing for the adult that has to read them over and over, it is an important developmental activity and phase for small children.

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Part of the easy reader series of I Spy books featuring rhymes, increasingly difficult picture puzzles, and tons of literacy building extras. Great for beginning readers!

My favorite layout in this title was the page where all the objects appear in a spooky haze. Well done!

[Sarah A · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun puzzler book with some nicely hidden objects and some very very challenging ones. A gently scary book but some of the pages were printed very dark and it was really hard to see some of the pictures! Fun, gentle, would prefer more bright pages!

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is another fun book from the series that could be used in a center to make beginner readers enjoy reading while looking for objects in the picture.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice book with lots of different types of pictures.

[Sharon · Rating 4 out of 5]

These books take longer to read than you might think, because the boys insist on finding every object.

[Victoria Chafin · Rating 3 out of 5]

the book was okay but there was one page that's just which is difficult for preschool which is what level the book is for.