Eye Spy: Wild Ways Animals See the World Hardcover – Lift the flap, October 1, 2018

Really insightful and good for older children and even adults to learn about how different eyes see the world.

This is the coolest book!! Even though I got it for my kids, I couldn’t wait to read it myself lol. It’s so interesting learning how different animals see. This book is also at least 18” tall, VERY nice. I was really impressed with this and am excited to add it to their forever library.

I recently loved a kids' book called Absolutely Everything, so I looked for what else the publisher had done and found this gem for younger kids. So here's the deal: This book is utterly surprising and fascinating. My kid visitors (ages 4-11) play with my cats, but it never crossed their minds (or mine either) to think whether the cats were seeing the world the same way humans do. I guess I just assumed all animals saw what we see. But oh no. I guarantee you will be surprised and wowed (and so will the kids). On almost every page of this book is a gorgeous painting of an animal. When you lift the flap over its eyes, you see how it sees the world. It's the same scene for all of them (plus humans), so you can compare. And the author explains exactly what causes the differences. Its not just cats and dogs, either. You can see what birds see. And snails and lizards and bugs. But you do want to know about your pets because (spoiler alert!) those red toys they sell at Petsmart? The color is all for us, not the pet. And chameleons? They can see two directions at once. Mind-blowing!

This is a fantastic book. I can't top the excellent review by S. Pizza on 10/31/2018, but I will add that this book really points out that there are different ways of viewing the same thing. It's a good illustration that not everyone sees things in the same way.

FASCINATING!!!! Oh, the research that must have been done to write the content and develop the visuals for this book! Thorough. Well written. Visually appealing. Conceptually, Duprat tackles what other authors have only written (but not tried to make visual) for students. The book comes in a large format and each two page spread has an image of 2-3 animals with a flap that you can pull away and see what that animal sees, actually how we think the animal sees. For example, there are two flaps that make up a horse's eyes - you push the flaps to the side and you see an image of a yard with various objects and animals - but the way the horse would see it in very dull colors. For a frog, that has poor vision, the picture (of the same yard, animals, objects as the horse) is blurred. For a hummingbird, that sees more colors than we do (so the illustrator-author does his best!) and are especially attracted to red, the same pictures is colorful with sharp images up close including vibrantly red flowers. There's a section for mammals, birds, reptiles..., and insects.K-6 students should pick this up! There's so much that can be learned at each stage of reading. Very general to very technical details (about rods, cones, field of vision, and so forth) are included.I'd book talk this and then leave in the classroom library. Actually, you won't have to say much. Just show it to them and then leave it to be snatched up over and over again. Once students have found joy in browsing through this, I'd pose some questions to help them focus on searching for and learning particular types of details. Examples of prompts might include:*What is the difference in how animals with eyes on the sides of their heads (e.g., horses, cows...) see from other animals? Use information from the text (including facts about specific animals) to explain.*Which would you rather? Two independent eyes? Or a compound eye? Make a case using facts from the text.*Which would you rather? Have photoreceptors or eyes? Make a case using facts from the text.*Based on Duprat's explanation of how the human eye works, choose an animal in the book and create a similar diagram explaining how that animal's eyes must work.BTW - I found this book on the USBBY Outstanding International Book List for 2018Very excited to discover What On Earth Books out of the UK (first edition published in English).

The media could not be loaded.  Super fun and very educational. This book was absolutely fascinating. It shows you, bylifting a flap on an animals face, how that animal sees the world around it. And then the underside of the flap explains the purpose for this type of vision or what it is in the eye of that animal that allows it to see like that. If you have ever wondered what it would be like to see the world around you like a horse or a bird or a snake... this is your book! I couldn't put it down until I'd finished it! My daughters are aged 1 year and 7 months and 8 years old, they love it.

A lovely, educational find. My 3 year old absolutely loves this book and is fascinated with how different animals see the world in different ways. Lots of eye shaped flaps over the animal faces, so lovely and interactive. Provoked lots of questions from my son - would definitely recommend.

I bought this book for my 8 year old son who has looked at it every day since it arrived over a week ago.At that age, their imagination is very active and this book puts them into the body of animals to imagine seeing the world through the animals' own eyes.A very clever idea for a book and written in a language that is easily understood and readable by that age group, and one that teaches children about the animal kingdom without them actually realising it!Highly recommended.

Interesting and novel format for a factual book; each page shows a different animal and then under the lift-up flap shows how they see the world. Our two boys were a little skeptical a first having left flap-type books behind a few years ago, however once they started reading, they were both fascinated. The book is nicely laid out and well illustrated - thoroughly recommended for children in the 5-10 age range.