Eye Guess: A Forest Animal Guessing Game

Children are attracted to books that are not in the traditional format, such as pop-ups, foldouts. Imaginative paper engineering catches both their eyes and interest. This is the case with "Eye Guess," an inventive small book that combines foldouts with a guessing game. Each clue is accompanied by a full page picture of an animal's eye, and each of these pages folds out to reveal a full picture of the animal. The first challenge is as follows: "I waddle on land, but I paddle in a puddle. With my wide, webbed feet, I can swim and dive. I open my eyes underwater to look for food." Many youngsters will probably guess that the answer is a duck. What follows is harder to guess as very few of us will probably recognize a turtle's eye. The frog's eyes are unmistakable as are the owl's. Others will cause some pondering as to many the bobcat's eyes may resemble those of a larger cat or even the neighbor tom. Uncovering the eight animals is a game young readers can enjoy with their parents or playmates. - Gail Cooke