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A review by ljrinaldi
I Spy the 50 States by Sharyn Rosart
2.0
When gas was cheaper, people would often go on road trips across America. There was even the commercial that sang "See the USA, in your Chevrolet." And what did one do on road trips? Play "I Spy" games, if you didn't bring a book to read.
So, I like the concept of this book, but it is poorly executed. As some other reviewers pointed out, some things are labeled, other things aren't. Some things are drawn so poorly you can't tell what they are. And the I Spy part of it will name things like "Horseshoe Crab" but the I Spy will say, "I spy something that begins with C".
Here is New Hampshire.
Delaware
And New York.
But here, I am going to help you with California, being a second generation, and having lived here my entire life, so far. From top, going left to right. Golden Gate Bridge, Apple Computer Mac, Wine (for Napa, Alcatraz (which they could have shown as an island because that is the coolest thing about it, rather than it just being a prison.), Clapboard, a reference to the movies, and a pick and shovel and gold, which is what brought most people out here in 1849.
Sacramento, Palo Alto (the tree for which the city is named), Pacific Ocean, a bald eagle, somewhere, some bird that is not the state bid, and the Hollywood sign.
I presume this is a brown bear. It could be the bear ont he flag, which is actually extinct, some basketball and baseball guy. (there are several teams int he state of both), An orange and sour dough brea, the boardwalk at Santa Monica (where I have never seen surfers.)
Last row, I promise. Death valley with a Joshua Tree, California quail, the state bird, the mission in San Juan Capistrano, some hill somewhere, above which is a salt flat, which I didn't think we had, but it appears to be the dried lake in Death Valley which doesn't lok anything like this picture, a Hollywood star, a bad drawing of a poppy (they have four petals, not five) and some lake somewhere, which might be lake Tahoe, but who knows.
And what do they spy with their little eye? A sequoia tree? I have them in my backyard, they don't look like that.
So, if I have this much trouble with the book imagine kids trying to figure out what they are looking at.
I think this should have come with a reference, which the kids could have looked up what each picture meant, with a little history about said image.
but that is just what I feel. Perhaps this would work for others.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
So, I like the concept of this book, but it is poorly executed. As some other reviewers pointed out, some things are labeled, other things aren't. Some things are drawn so poorly you can't tell what they are. And the I Spy part of it will name things like "Horseshoe Crab" but the I Spy will say, "I spy something that begins with C".
Here is New Hampshire.
Delaware
And New York.
But here, I am going to help you with California, being a second generation, and having lived here my entire life, so far. From top, going left to right. Golden Gate Bridge, Apple Computer Mac, Wine (for Napa, Alcatraz (which they could have shown as an island because that is the coolest thing about it, rather than it just being a prison.), Clapboard, a reference to the movies, and a pick and shovel and gold, which is what brought most people out here in 1849.
Sacramento, Palo Alto (the tree for which the city is named), Pacific Ocean, a bald eagle, somewhere, some bird that is not the state bid, and the Hollywood sign.
I presume this is a brown bear. It could be the bear ont he flag, which is actually extinct, some basketball and baseball guy. (there are several teams int he state of both), An orange and sour dough brea, the boardwalk at Santa Monica (where I have never seen surfers.)
Last row, I promise. Death valley with a Joshua Tree, California quail, the state bird, the mission in San Juan Capistrano, some hill somewhere, above which is a salt flat, which I didn't think we had, but it appears to be the dried lake in Death Valley which doesn't lok anything like this picture, a Hollywood star, a bad drawing of a poppy (they have four petals, not five) and some lake somewhere, which might be lake Tahoe, but who knows.
And what do they spy with their little eye? A sequoia tree? I have them in my backyard, they don't look like that.
So, if I have this much trouble with the book imagine kids trying to figure out what they are looking at.
I think this should have come with a reference, which the kids could have looked up what each picture meant, with a little history about said image.
but that is just what I feel. Perhaps this would work for others.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.