Kids can sharpen their reading skills, vocabulary, and visual observation skills with the I Spy series of readers. Each book features colorful photographed scenes, each strewn with many small objects. The challenge is to locate specific objects hidden within. For example, in I Spy A Balloon, one of the scenes consists of a dresser top with seashells, jewelry, photographs, bottles of nail polish, and other small knick-knacks. The facing page lists the items to find: "I spy a brush, a lady on toes, a spider, a ball, and a bunny in clothes." Each book contains about ten scenes, and the last few pages have additional challenges that require comparing and analyzing several scenes (i.e., "I spy two words that start with the letter T"). 32 pgs, pb. ~ Lisa
