I SPY Spooky Night by James Marzollo & Walter Wick (Picture Book Review)

I Spy Spooky Night:
A Book of Picture Riddles
Written by Jean Marzollo
Illustrated by Walter Wick
Published by Cartwheel Books
on July 30, 2019 
(first published in 1996)
Genre: Children's, Picture Books
Length: 40 pages
Ages: 4 - 8 years

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Synopsis:
Kids of all ages will enjoy a fun and spooky exploration as a trickster skeleton beckons readers from room to room to I Spy for mice, spiders, candles, bats, jack-o'-lanterns, bones, and so much more! From its rickety gate to its cobwebbed attic, this haunted house contains 13 spooky and spectacular photographs. There is a spooky graveyard, a mysterious laboratory, a garden of ghoulies--each page has rhyming puzzles with eerie objects to find.

Our Thoughts:

'Tis the season for spooky and I SPY has given us a wonderfully creepy look-and-find to fill our dark and dreary (rainy) days.

I remember borrowing as many of these I SPY books from the library as I could as a kid. A family member and I would look over them together and marvel at all the different items on each page. I can't remember if the new and older version are the same though. This one reminded me very much of the ones from when I was a child with a similar style and very old items. Still, it was a lot of fun to come back to these old favorites!

My daughter loves look-and-find books but a lot of the ones in her age groups are way too easy so are always happy to find something that gives us a challenge. I thought this was perfect for her because there are plenty of easy to find items but enough harder ones to take our time with. The rhyming riddles were a lot of fun for her, especially since they are also the list of items to find!

There are extra riddles of items to find listed in the back along with descriptions or the rarer and lesser-known items included in the search, such as a palindrome and a rebus.

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