Review by Booklist Review
PreS-Gr. 2. A sequel to the best-selling Can You See What I See (2002), this photo-adventure begins in a toy-filled room, where children are invited to pick out everything from yo-yos to sneakers to a musical monkey. Then the action moves into a city of the future seen from various angles and housing a metallic dream machine made of ordinary items such as a cell phone and a whisk, but leaving a hi-tech impression. Each spread invites children to look more, find more, imagine more. The informative author's note describes how, with the help of four assistants, Wick organized and photographed (in eye-popping color) thousands of props in constructed sets. Another appealing offering by a visual master. --Ilene Cooper Copyright 2003 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
In a quartet of companion books this fall, the photographs steal the show. Chock-full of detailed photos for the most determined I Spy fans, Walter Wick's Can You See What I See? Dream Machine: A Picture Adventure to Search and Solve contains 12 elaborate scenes with hidden objects to find. This follow-up to Wick's bestseller Can You See What I See? progresses from a child's bedroom to a dream world of futuristic cities, robots and strange contraptions. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Review by School Library Journal Review
Gr 1-5-Wick has done it again with this multilayered puzzle fantasy. The small red, yellow, and blue bead figure that was spotted in the first Can You See What I See? (Scholastic, 2002) is back in a sporty red roadster with a lightning bolt blazed on the hood. Each of the 12 riddle/photo combinations moves further into the scene that begins and ends in a toy-strewn bedroom and explores the nooks and crannies of the cities and worlds set up for make-believe. The bead-person and his car are seen zooming through the cardboard streets, past "a girl with a bow,/a hand in a pocket,/a spoon on a plate,/a man in a rocket," and many other fantastic and everyday items, as readers are drawn into the dream and find the objects named in the text. As in his previous books, Wick uses homonyms and visual tricks, giving children more to see and look for than what may appear at first glance. Careful observers, startled out of the dream world at the end by a robot alarm clock, would do well to heed the advice of the beaded-letter bracelet in a bowl that urges them to "SEYMOUR." A wonderful addition to any collection.-Genevieve Gallagher, Orange County Public Library, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
A series of well-photographed double-page nightscapes includes a child's moonlit bedroom, city streets in the wee hours, and an uninhabited auto shop. A rhymed text alongside each spread lists a dozen or so items for the reader to find in each tableau. This book eschews the overwhelmingly busy style of other picture-puzzle titles in favor of unfrenetic, soothing, muted images appropriate for bedtime. From HORN BOOK Spring 2004, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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