About This Book
Joan Steiner's "Look-Alikes Around the World" offers a captivating journey across continents, showcasing over 40 iconic landmarks and vacation spots reimagined as intricate 3D dioramas. Each scene is meticulously constructed from common household items, inviting children and adults alike to search for hundreds of 'look-alikes' hidden within the art. Alongside the stunning visuals, the book provides photographs of the actual sites and interesting facts, making it a delightful blend of art, geography, and puzzle-solving. It's perfect for fostering observation skills, sparking creativity, and introducing children to world cultures and landmarks in an engaging, interactive way.
Take an eye-opening trip around the world! Using everyday objects in ingenious ways, artist Joan Steiner has created three-dimensional scenes of more than 40 famous landmarks and familiar vacation locales ? from the shores of Cape Cod and chateaux across Europe to the Egyptian pyramids and the magestic Taj Mahal. Complete with photographs of the actual sites, fascinating facts, and more than 500 look-alikes to search for, this unique postcard album will challenge and captivate puzzlers of all ages.
Discussion Prompts
1
What everyday objects can you spot in this picture? What do they look like they're supposed to be?
2
Which landmark is this? Have you heard of it before, or would you like to visit it?
3
If you were to build a famous place out of everyday objects, what would you choose and what would you use?
4
How do you think the artist made these scenes? What kind of imagination does that take?
5
What new facts did you learn about the places we visited in this book?
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