Look-Alikes Around the World

By Joan Steiner

Book Overview

Take an eye-opening trip around the world Using everyday objects in ingenious ways, artist Joan Steiner has created three-dimensional scenes of more than 40 famous landmarks and familiar vacation locales ? from the shores of Cape Cod and chateaux across Europe to the Egyptian pyramids and the magestic Taj Mahal. Complete with photographs of the actual sites, fascinating facts, and more than 500 look-alikes to search for, this unique postcard album will challenge and captivate puzzlers of all ages.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316811726
• ISBN13: 9780316811729
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.0" x 0.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Look Alikes

This is a great product for adults, but kids don't recognize many of the items.

Great for the car ride

Take a closer look at these pictures and you will see that things are not as they appear. The author/artist of this book created typically famous scenes and then recreated them with random objects. If you look closer, you will see that the towers are made of recorders and the trees are brussel sprouts! It is a fun book to take in the car because it requires time and attention to find all the objects.

Teaching kids to 'look twice' at art for hidden wonders.

Artist Joan Stiner uses everyday objects in three-dimension scenes of over forty famous landmarks and familiar vacation picks from Europe to the U.S. in this fun set of facts, photos and look-alike concepts. This book appeared some time ago but deserves ongoing mention as a fabulous, lasting library pick filled with fun and teaching kids to 'look twice' at art for hidden wonders.

Such imagination!

My husband asked if I order these books for the grandchildren or for myself! Absolutely amazing!