cover image Look!

Look!

Édouard Manceau. Owlkids (PGW, dist.), $19.95 (30p) ISBN 978-1-77147-102-2

Like an amped-up game of I Spy, this oversize board book with a large die-cut rectangle in its center uses verbal prompts and interactive elements to invite readers to study the world around them. The die-cut effectively turns the book into a frame through which children can locate nearby objects that correspond to Manceau’s questions (“Do you see anything red? Orange? Blue? Green?”). Other questions revolve around identifying items of varying sizes, distances, and shapes, while novelties like pages covered in orange fuzz or stuck together with Velcro (“Do you see things that make noise?”) will remind readers that the object they’re holding in their hands is as special as anything they might see through the window at its center. Ages 3–7. (Mar.)