Magic Eye 2: Now You See It...

by Magic Eye Inc., N.E. Thing Enterprises

You need to see it to believe it! Exercise your eyes and imagination with 29 new mind-bending 3D illusions. 2D illustrations will magically morph before your eyes to reveal what is secretly hidden in 3D. The images will not simply appear to be 3D, they will become 3D! Viewing instructions and a solution key are included. The longer you look, the clearer the hidden 3D image will become. The further away you hold the page, the deeper it becomes!

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Picture Books, Childrens, Reference, Magic

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Pug · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's cool, it really does pop out like a 3-D picture! I remember how excited I was about this book when I first got it (like, 30 years ago):
I wanted to experience "a new way of looking at the world" or whatever they claimed. I'm a little out of practice now, but once I was able to see the images once again, it was a fun trip down memory lane.

[Allie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this on Friday at a used book shop and it was a GREAT buy! I was so awful at these as a kid, but I'm brilliant at it now. Maybe not a 5 star book, but definitely a 5 star experience!

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun! I’m getting better at it! But some of the images didn’t match the answer key, and not just because I am not good at doing the images. The tea leaves one was an Omega symbol and there was a pirate ship that was supposed to be something completely different.

[Betsy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Magic Eye pix & this book did not disappoint!

[Robert Davis · Rating 2 out of 5]

More fun with art that is guaranteed to give you a migraine! Just like the first volume, some images are simple, some more intricate. Some pop out easily, while others require a good deal of patience to discover. But none of the pictures are worth the eyestrain and headaches they induce.

[Finlay · Rating 3 out of 5]

I re-read a bunch of old books at the beginning of 2016 when my mum gave me some boxes to look through. I actually got this one relatively recently, probably around ten years ago. I've had the previous book in the series probably for twenty years. Doing these illusions is like coming back to an old friend!

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love these simple pleasures!

[Jahn Manns · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent 3D hidden image book. Some experiments with colors are not good but as a whole the book is excellent.

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love these books. I've been doing these since the 1990s. It's fun! It's great that they have illustrations at the back that show what to look for on each page. Just relax your eyes. Once you "get it" it becomes easier and easier.
I own this book and will keep it forever.

[Ci · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hesitate to review a non-book book. Yet to experience a "magic eye" moment is surprisingly pleasant and revealing. Coming with a good dose of concentration fatigue and mental exhaustion, a realized autostereogram compensates all the frustration and irritation. As I try to divert my eyes while still observing the picture, I notice the changing of the pictures liking the shimmering of oil sleeks on the water. Yet the input is the same, yet the mind is working furiously trying to workout a representation. Until an unknown moment, something emerge in front of me, often sharper and crystalline, like the cone-shaped mount in the first page, in a glittering black/blue/gray coloring, replacing the flat pink streaks.

Nothing in my visual experience alerts me more of the unconscious workings of our visual cognitive process. The habitual "focusing" defeats the process. Except the first picture, I have more miss than hit for the rest of the book. Sometimes I see, but often I don't. There is no location or light or posture to give me clues of why the mysterious figures would choice to float up to my visual field.

Although autostereogram is an amusing visual trick, it serves a useful reminder of how little we know and control our own cognitive process. Even the old saying "the eyes see what the mind wants to see" is not entirely correct since the "want" implies attentional direction of our own mind.

[jacky · Rating 4 out of 5]

I suddenly remembered these books. Now these are something that should be on an episode of VH1's I Love the 90's. I vaguely remembered the colors of the covers and when I saw them listed here, I assumed that these are them, but I could be wrong. I might have read others besides these published by other companies. I know that my father brought one home and then my 9th grade social studies teacher had a couple of them, too. These would make a great addition to my fun classroom stuff (like Waldo books, Magic 8 Ball, Rubik's Cube, Slinky, etc).

[Jake Danishevsky · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got as many those as I could find. I enjoy them and when I want to relax, concentrate or just have a few moments of enjoyment for no reason, but sit back and let my eyes wonder into a "parallel" universe, I grab one of those books and flip through a few pages. They are all great. If you are unable to see the wonder within them, keep trying and give it a chance, but I guarantee you, once your eyes are able to get what you are looking for, you will not be able to get enough of them.

[Alaudin]

You will be with this book for hours. 3-d images that have a a hidden picture underneath the immediate one you are looking at. It is so addictive you will be hooked for life. I urge everyone to try this!

[Brittany · Rating 2 out of 5]

These books were all the rage while I was in elementary school. No matter how hard or much I tried, I could never see the darn "magic" picture though! I would like to come across one of these now to give it a try.

[elissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love these Magic Eye things. Excellent for those of us who are fairly equally right brained and left brained. Some people don't even believe it can be done!

[Unapologetic_Bookaholic · Rating 5 out of 5]

These books are totally awesome and cool. I only need a few seconds and the pictures jump off the page. Cool!

[Kaethe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun books to play with, but you couldn't call it reading.

[Janice · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you like pictures hidden within pictures this is the book for you. Kids like this one because it takes time to find the amazing 3-d pictures, but they are worth it.

[Shannon · Rating 1 out of 5]

I think Mom bought me these just because she got tired of me thumbing through the copies at B. Dalton's.

[Thepaganpuzzler · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you're looking to go cross-eyed in a hurry, this will do it! Great fun!!!

[Yan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beware, you might get cock-eyed...

[Alvina · Rating 1 out of 5]

I never did see anything...

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

These magic pictures are always fun to try to see...some trickier than others, but fun none the less. We enjoyed trying to guess what it would be before skewing our eyes to see them.

[Job Favela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Igual que el libro pasado pero con menos impacto. Más complejas imágenes como quiera. Divertido un rato y ya.

[Brian Whitby · Rating 2 out of 5]

The plot was pretty thin and the characters surprisingly 2 dimensional.

[Madison · Rating 5 out of 5]

The cover is an elephant!

[Leonardo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Muy bueno! No sé donde habrá ido a parar. Algunas imágenes eran más fáciles de "ver" que otras.

[Kathleen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this series!

[Thiago Freitas · Rating 1 out of 5]

Tal relevante quanto o primeiro, foi comprado provavelmente por quem não esperou tres meses após pagar pelo primeiro.

[Tamsyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

What can I say? I like these books.