Zoom

Zoom by Istvan Banyai

Zoom-in with Zoom!

Open this wordless book and zoom from a farm to a ship to a city street to a desert island. But if you think you know where you are, guess again. For nothing is ever as it seems in Istvan Banyai's sleek, mysterious landscapes of pictures within pictures, which will tease and delight readers of all ages.

Book Details:

• Number of Pages: 64
• Book Size: 7-1/4" x 8-3/4"
• Book Type: Paperback
• Recommended Ages: 5 through adult
• ISBN 10: 0140557741
• ISBN 13: 978-0140557749

"This provocative wordless volume can be 'read' either from front to back or even from back to front. Either way, it's a startling experience. Its illustrations 'zoom' out, as though a viewer has rapidly backed away from each. For example, the first painting, of a jagged-edged red shape, turns out to be a detail of a rooster's comb; as the pages turn, the bird diminishes in importance, until the barn where he stands is shown to be a toy on a magazine's cover. That magazine dangles from the hand of a dozing boy, who himself becomes but a smudge on an advertising billboard. These shifts in perspective repeat until the book abandons earth altogether. The last image is a tiny white sphere - our planet - against a night sky. The bold color and level of detail in Banyai's cartoons recall 'Prince Valiant' or another of the 'realistic' Sunday comics. If the concept is not wholly new, the execution is superior. Readers are in for a perpetually surprising - and even philosophical -adventure. All ages." — Publishers Weekly

"Ingenious." — The Horn Book

We also have Re-Zoom, the second book in this series, available.

---

This is truly a unique book that kids (and adults) of all ages will love to look at again and again. Use it as a springboard to stimulating imaginations.

---

What other things can you do with this product?

We've included some of our "outside the box" creative ideas below to help get you started...

For more unique ideas, go to our Free Resources for Parents and Educators.

• Make color-copies of the pages of this book and have your children put the pages in the proper order. A great lesson in sequential order.
• When you need an ice-breaker activity (for a new class, a party, or even for meetings at work), give each person a color-copy of a single page from this book. Challenge the group to order themselves sequentially. A fun activity for kids and adults!