Can you see what I see? The night before Christmas : picture puzzles to search and solve

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Title:

Can you see what I see? The night before Christmas : picture puzzles to search and solve

Author:

Wick, Walter, 1953-

Personal Author:

Wick, Walter, 1953-

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

35 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Series:

Can you see what I see?

General Note:

"Cartwheel books."

Contents:

Night before Christmas -- Not a creature was stirring -- The stockings -- All snug -- Visions of sugarplums -- Long winter's nap -- Such a clatter! -- New fallen snow -- Down the chimney -- It must be Saint Nick -- Bundle of toys -- Happy Christmas to all -- About this book -- About the author.

Abstract:

The first photograph, "The Night Before Christmas," features a gingerbread house, Christmas cookies, candles, bulbs, and more. "Visions of Sugarplums" is an abstract composition of Christmas confections; and "Such a Clatter!" is a dynamic explosion of objects. In "It Must Be Saint Nick," Santa is shown in shadow; and in "A Bundle of Toys," the presents in Santa's sack are revealed as a magnificent jumble. The final photograph, "Happy Christmas to All" is a beautiful, pastoral landscape, lustrous under new-fallen snow. The original poem is printed on the endpapers. Scenes from Clement C. Moore's The Night Before Christmas, inspire twelve gorgeous and fascinating compositions where readers search for dozens of intriguing hidden objects. The first photograph, "The Night Before Christmas," features a gingerbread house, Christmas cookies, candles, bulbs, and more. "Visions of Sugarplums" is an abstract composition of Christmas confections; and "Such a Clatter!" is a dynamic explosion of objects. In "It Must Be Saint Nick," Santa is shown in shadow; and in "A Bundle of Toys," the presents in Santa's sack are revealed as a magnificent jumble. The final photograph, "Happy Christmas to All" is a beautiful, pastoral landscape, lustrous under new-fallen snow. The original poem is printed on the endpapers.

Personal Subject:

Santa Claus (Fictitious character)-Juvenile poetry.

Santa Claus (Fictitious character)-Poetry.

Subject Term:

Picture puzzles

Children's poetry, American

Genre:

Added Author:

Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863. Night before Christmas

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005005644.html
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1301/2005005644-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1115/2005005644-d.html

ISBN:

9780439769273

9781451777277

9781415621097

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Library	Material Type	Call Number	Location
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Summary

Scenes from Clement Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas inspire twelve elegant and fascinating compositions where readers search for dozens of intriguing hidden objects.The first photograph, "The Night Before Christmas," features a gingerbread house, Christmas cookies, candles, bulbs, and more. "Visions of Sugarplums" is an abstract composition of Christmas confections; and "Such a Clatter!" is a dynamic explosion of objects. In "It Must Be Saint Nick," Santa is shown in shadow; and in "A Bundle of Toys," the presents in Santa's sack are revealed as a magnificent jumble. The final photograph, "Happy Christmas to All" is a beautiful, pastoral landscape, lustrous under new-fallen snow. The original poem is printed on the endpapers. Can You See What

Author Notes

Walter Wick grew up in a rural part of Connecticut. His first serious interest in art began with drawings and painting in high school.

He went on to study photography at Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut. After graduating in 1973, he worked as a lab technician and assistant to a commercial photographer.

Eventually, Wick moved to New York City and started his own photography studio. He stumbled upon a particular photo that led to the creation of his popular children's books, "I Spy" which are optical illusion picture books. He has also written "A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder" and "Walter Wick's Optical Tricks."

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

A trio of holiday books helps readers get in the spirit (see Children's Reviews, Sept. 26 for more titles). Walter Wick applies his considerable photographic and choreographic talents to the Yuletide-themed addition to his paper-over-board Can You See What I See? series, The Night Before Christmas. Endpapers reprint Moore's famous poem, which kicks off photographic puzzles called "Visions of Sugarplums," featuring a dazzling shower of gingerbread cookies, gumdrops, candy canes and more, and "A Bundle of Toys" that will have alert young eyes scouring Santa's sack for goodies. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Horn Book Review

(Primary, Intermediate) It's not a Christmas miracle, but it's pretty awesome. Wick's captivating color-photo picture-puzzle tableaux illustrate fragments (""such a clatter!""; ""new fallen snow"") plucked from Clement Clarke Moore's classic ""The Night before Christmas,"" the text of which is reproduced on the book's endpapers. The rhymes accompanying each double-page spread are forgettable (""Can you see / what I see? / A penguin, a pie, / a red candy heart, / 3 little elves, / a bear in a cart""), but the art is up to Wick's usual standards and then some. Each panoramic image -- a toy nook, complete with miniature bedroom (""all snug""); a wallpaper-like assemblage of holiday confections (""visions of sugarplums"") -- reveals the most minuscule of details, right down to the last white dot on a nonpareil. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.

Kirkus Review

The co-creator of the "I Spy" series uses a similar format in this holiday offering full of glowing photographs of tiny toys and sweet treats. As in previous volumes, readers can search each spread for the miniature items craftily hidden within, enumerated in rhyming lists in large type next to each photograph. Wick uses phrases from the familiar lines of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" as an organizational framework for his lush photos of a cozy house on Christmas Eve all decked out for Santa's arrival. (He includes the poem on the endpapers.) Some spreads focus on one area of the house and others on single images from the poem, such as a whirlwind of sugarplums or an open bundle of toys. Eagle-eyed readers will spot additional clever details such as a recurring white dove and the gabled house in a snow globe that duplicates the home featured throughout. This volume covers much of the same holiday territory as I Spy Christmas by Marzollo and Wick (1992), but fans of this sort of picture puzzle will welcome another challenging Christmas brainteaser. (author's note) (Picture book. 3-7) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.