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A creative tour de force of art, activity, and fascinating diorama.

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"Look-Alikes" is a compulsively fun book for both kids and grownups. Big colorful pages tell a simple narrative of travel and city life through huge static phenomenally detailed photos of dioramas that a chock-a-block with fascinating detail and hidden visual jokes. For example, a concession stand at a train station is made out of a funnel; the 40s retro lighting fixtures at an old style deli are actually white rubber drain plugs. The central activity is to locate and identify these visual tricks. There's a snippet of text on each page that list some of them for you to find - some easy and some devilishly hard.

Beyond the "Where's Waldo" type gameplay, these images succeed on a several other levels as well. They are big and colorful and a visual feast of detail and happy narrative content. They are superb dioramas which fascinate the modeling monkey bone. They are full of trains and people and buildings and scenes. The whole assemblage conveys happiness and order while simultaneously conveying zaniness and wild abandon. It's totally great! I'd put the age range from 5 to 95.

Look-Alike Book

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My Grandson had checked out a couple of the Look-Alike books from the Library. He really liked them, so I decided to get him one for his 5TH birthday. He really enjoys finding the look alike objects in the pictures, and spends a long time for a five year old doing so.

My kids love these books

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My twin 5 yr old boys love these books. It has become a night time ritual with them. There are so many cool things to spot. I would recommend this book for anyone looking for something to do during quiet time.

Fantastic

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My 3yo son and 37yo husband both love this book (as do I). We can easily spend half an hour or more every evening playing a modified I-spy game - and it's no easy feat keeping a 3 yo entertained that long. I would highly recommend it for travel, except that it's a large size book which makes it a bit unweildy to carry.

Great "idea" book, or just fun to view

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This is a another book filled with fascinating ways the author puts together pictures using common everyday items. You'll never look at ordinary items the same way again once you see how she creatively puts together her pictures. Children and adults alike will be fascinated by this book. If you want to give a child a book he or she will look at over and over again, this is a good choice.