Look What I See

by Judi Barrett, Ron Barrett (Illustrator)

Overview

From the bestselling creators of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs comes a clever and silly board book that presents a unique view on perspective.

Look What I See is an inventive story that showcases the world as only Judi and Ron Barrett can see it. A study on perspective, each page asks readers what they might see in different situations—like with your eyes half shut, or upside down, or riding on a bumpy road, or looking through a magnifying glass—followed by a brilliantly illustrated answer.

The up-close and personal point of view is sure to have readers giggling and trying out each position to see how their world looks from a new perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534430730
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	05/07/2019
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	1 - 5 Years

About the Author

Judi Barrett is the author of many beloved books for children, including the bestselling Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Pickles to Pittsburgh, Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing, Lots More Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing, Santa from Cincinnati, and An Excessive Alphabet. She teaches art to kindergarten students at a school in her Brooklyn neighborhood.

Ron Barrett is the internationally bestselling illustrator of many books for children, including Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Pickles to Pittsburgh, Superhero Joe, Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing, Lots More Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing, and An Excessive Alphabet. His illustrations have been honored by the Society of Illustrators and have been exhibited at The Louvre in Paris. He lives in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

05/27/2019

This board book from the creators ofCloudy with a Chance of Meatballs showsthe world from a dog’s-eye view. From the momentitwakes up, a pup in a striped shirt invites readers to share its point of view. Each spread shows two perspectives—the left-hand pages examines the dog in the world: in its room getting dressed, outside gazing at a puddle, in a lawn chair peering through a telescope. On the facing pages, the images give readers the hound’s view: through the cloth of a T-shirt as it is pulled over its head, its own reflection in the puddle, a nest of birds through the telescope’s lens. Absurd details, such as atoupeeflying off a stately dog portrait, add silly fun to this welcome encouragement to look at life from new, unconventional perspectives.Ages 1–5. (May)

Publishers Weekly

2019-04-28
A young dog reflects on all the ways life can be viewed from different vantage points.

From dawn, when the protagonist wakes to view a bedroom ceiling, to nighttime, when the same dog views a moonlit sky from the same bedroom's window, readers experience one day in the life of this pup. The verso of each double-page spread shows readers the scene the dog inhabits, while the recto shows them a new point of view. At breakfast they see the upside-down face of the pup in the concave reflection from a spoon, and at bathtime they see tub toys floating above them. The first-person narration simply describes each scene with clauses beginning with "when…." Ron Barrett's chunky pencil drawings with muted colors do a lovely job of illustrating some tricky moments, particularly how things would look from the inside of a T-shirt. While this is a clever exploration of perspective, the board-book format is not a good choice for the exercise, as the core audience is still often learning that others may have a different point of view from themselves.

Here's hoping that older children discover this clever exploration, even if they feel they've moved beyond board books. (Board book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews