Gigi and Zachary's Around-the-World Adventure: A Seek-and-Find Game

By Gilles Eduar

Book Overview

Join Gigi the giraffe and Zachary the zebra on their travels around the world. Wherever they go, they find lots of new discoveries, and each page of their colorful travel album is a search-and-find game! From the African savanna to the canals of Venice to the ice floes of Alaska, young readers are challenged to spy more than 500 objects. Detailed keys in the back of the book provide the answers for anyone needing a helping hand. As young readers look for date palms in the Sahara, mosques in Istanbul and jaguars in the Amazon, they will learn new words and get a playful introduction to life around the globe.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811839095
• ISBN13: 9780811839099
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 13.7" x 0.4" x 10.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and under
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 7

Customer Reviews

Excellent hide and seek book

This is an excellent find the XYZ (insert item there) book. Gigi the Giraffe and Zachary the Zebra lead us through several countries. Each page has suggested items to find, but there are many many more on each page you would make up on your own to find and look at, or use to play grouping games. The items listed are much more advanced than a lot of the books of this genre, enabling you to expose your child to a much broader vocabulary, while still presenting it in an engaging and age-appropriate manner for the toddler/preschool crowd. This book would still be interesting for younger children as well (6 or 7 probably) in terms of the pictures and broader vocabulary presented. This book has held my son's attention from about age 3 or slightly younger now to age 4 and still is going strong. He finds new things to see and new games to play with us looking at it, and even our infant enjoys just looking at the colorful pictures.

Awesome Round The World Travel Book!!

I found this book quite by chance, and am so very happy that I did!! It's a really fun 'seek and find' type book. It follows Zachary the zebra and Gigi the giraffe as they make their way from their native Africa all the way around the world on a world-wind excursion!! Almost every differant type of culture and geography is visited. Every double page spread shows a very interesting and culturally correct depiction of a different country or region with a list of items on the bottom that you search to find in the picture. For those of us who don't know what some of those things maybe (a pennant in Brazil for instance), there is a list of answers in the back! The pictures are very exciting and well done and the cultures are very carefully researched. It's lots of fun to explore with our son, and offers a great opportunity to discuss various cultural differences with him!!! The book is quite large, and very well made - has stood up this far! Two thumbs up!