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Rhyming verses ask readers to find hidden objects in the photographs.

42) Snowmen at work

Author

Buehner, Caralyn

Series

Snowmen (Caralyn Buehner) volume 4

Description

When winter sidewalks seem to have been mysteriously shoveled, a child wonders if snowmen are magic and have nighttime jobs while the people sleep. Includes hidden pictures.

43) Can you see what I see?: Dream machine :a picture adventure to search and solve

Author

Series

Publisher

Scholastic Inc

Pub. Date

c2003

Physical Desc

35 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Description

Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

A child enters a dream machine and encounters hidden picture puzzles intended for the reader to solve.

44) Ready player one

Author

Cline, Ernest

Series

Ready player novels volume 1
Ready Player One

Appears on list

Vivid Settings

Formats

Description

Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other...

45) Can you see what I see?: Cool collections :picture puzzles to search and solve

Author

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

c2004

Physical Desc

35 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Description

Readers search for objects hidden in photographs of buttons, dinosaurs, robots, shells, cars, animals, leaves, beads, game pieces, and the contents of a junk drawer.

46) Pets all around: a spot-it challenge

Author

Schuette, Sarah L

Series

A+ books. Spot it

Publisher

Capstone Press

Pub. Date

c2013

Physical Desc

32 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

Description

Simple text and pictures invite the reader to find items hidden in pet-themed photographs.

47) Autumn: an alphabet acrostic

Author

Schnur, Steven

Publisher

Clarion Books

Pub. Date

1997

Physical Desc

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 24 cm.

Description

Describes the autumn season, with its animals, rain, cold winds, and harvested food. When read vertically, the first letters of the lines of text spell related words arranged alphabetically, from "acorn" to "zero."

48) The odd one out: a spotting book

Author

Teckentrup, Britta

Publisher

Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press

Pub. Date

2014.

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Description

A search-and-find game combines rhyming couplets with complex patterned artwork that invites children to discover hidden surprises.

49) Can you see what I see?: toyland express

Author

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

c2011

Physical Desc

35 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Description

"Follows the life of a toy train from the workshop to the attic, only to be rescued at a yard sale and brought to life once again in a new home. As readers search for more than 250 hidden objects, they will also notice how the train takes on various transformations along its journey."--Amazon.com.

50) Floors

Author

Carman, Patrick

Series

Floors volume 1

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

Ten-year-old Leo's future and the fate of the extraordinary Whippet Hotel, where his father is the maintenance man, are at stake when a series of cryptic boxes leads Leo to hidden floors, strange puzzles, and unexpected alliances.

51) Look-alikes around the world

Author

Steiner, Joan

Publisher

Little, Brown and Co

Pub. Date

c2007

Physical Desc

[32] p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.

Description

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.

52) Winter: an alphabet acrostic

Author

Schnur, Steven

Publisher

Clarion Books

Pub. Date

c2002

Physical Desc

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 25 cm.

53) Bigfoot visits the big cities of the world: a spectacular seek and find challenge for all ages!

Author

Miller, D. L

Publisher

Happy Fox Books

Pub. Date

2018.

Physical Desc

47 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Description

"A collection of seek and find challenges in which finding BigFoot accompanies facts about world cities"--

54) More sideways arithmetic from Wayside School

Author

Sachar, Louis

Series

Wayside School volume 5

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

c1994

Physical Desc

94 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Description

Join Mrs. Jewls's class and try solving over fifty math puzzles and brainteasers.

55) The fire: a novel

Author

Neville, Katherine

Formats

Book, Large Print

Description

2003, Colorado: Alexandra Solarin is summoned home to her family' ancestral Rocky Mountain hideaway for her mother's birthday. Thirty years ago, her parents, Cat Velis and Alexander Solarin, believed that they had scattered the pieces of the Montglane Service around the world. When Alexandra arrives her mother is missing and a mysterious group of houseguests have arrived, along with her aunt and the most powerful piece of Charlemagne's service.

56) Can you see what I see?: Once upon a time

Author

Series

Publisher

Scholastic Inc

Pub. Date

2006

Physical Desc

35 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Description

Offers picture puzzles which invite young readers to pick out objects having different colors, sizes, and physical features, in each of twelve fairy tales.

57) Black and white

Author

Macaulay, David

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Pub. Date

c1990

Physical Desc

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.

Description