Look-alikes around the world

Joan Steiner

Book - 2007

This postcard album will challenge and captivate puzzlers of all ages with its three-dimensional scenes of more than 40 famous landmarks and familiar vacation locales--from the shores of Cape Cod and chateaus across Europe to the Egyptian pyramids and the majestic Taj Mahal. Complete with photographs of the actual sites, fascinating facts, and more than 500 look-alikes to search for.

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Genres
Picture books
Published
New York : Little, Brown and Co c2007.
Language
English
Main Author
Joan Steiner (-)
Other Authors
Stephen Blauweiss (designer)
Edition
1st ed
Physical Description
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 31 cm
Awards
A Junior Library Guild selection
ISBN
9780316811729
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Joan Steiner's Look-Alikes: Around the World, the fourth in the series, offers a remarkable re-imagining of sites around the globe. Depicted as a series of postcards, the landscapes are created from a wide assortment of everyday objects. Cookies and staples combine to form the Leaning Tower of Pisa, while the Taj Mahal is comprised of recorders, children's shoes and onion domes made from... onions. (Little, Brown, $15.99 40p ages 3-6 ISBN 9780-316-81172-9; Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

Again showing her genius for turning found materials into realistic structures and scenes, Steiner conducts viewers on a world tour, from the sliced-bread-and-peanut-butter terraces of Machu Picchu to the Leaning Tower of Cookies. Each of the 39 stops is shown on a postcard or luggage sticker, and each spread comes with an identifying caption ("Everyone should visit Paris in the spring") and, for seek-and-find aficionados, the total number (which usually runs to dozens) of different items to spot. Closing with itemized lists and brief comments on the places she depicts, the author offers up another creative, riveting outing--though the photographer, Ogden Gigli, deserves more credit than a mention in the acknowledgements for making the water actually look wet, the settings natural and the monuments monumental. (Picture book. 6-8) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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