I Spy Little Wheels: A Book of Picture Riddles

The brightly colored photographs and simple rhymes of the I Spy books have a perennial appeal, as does the straightforward task they put before the child: see objects clearly on the left-hand page and pick them out from the complicated jumble on the right-hand page. The degree of difficulty varies widely from book to book, and this example from the board-book series is one of the very simplest, using for its images small areas of detail from the more complex photographs in books like I Spy Gold Challenger. Here, a 3-year-old is likely to go through the book in minutes, seeing all the answers very quickly. Some of the later pages up the ante slightly, for example when a cat, shown in full on the left, is almost completely hidden on the right. This simple interactive board-book is a good choice for the I Spy beginner. (Baby to 3 years) --Richard Farr