“I Spy” Read-Alikes (Search and Find)

A Year at a Construction Site
Author: Nicholas Harris
Outlines the steps construction workers take to build a school within a year's time. Ages 5 – 7


An A-Maze-ing Zoo Adventure
Author: Jill Kalz
Discover eleven truly amazing adventures through fun and lively illustrated finger mazes. Mapping and direction skills are reinforced with the inclusion of a compass rose, key, and instructions for things to look for on each adventure. Maze solutions are included. (One of several A-Maze-ing titles.) Ages 5 – 7.


Andy and Sam: Hide and Seek
Author: Liesbet Slegers
The reader is invited to find Andy's cat Sam in the pictures and to answer his other questions about items in the scene. Ages 2 – 6.


Can You See What I See? Treasure Ship
Author: Walter Wick
Asks the reader to find various objects in pirate-themed photographs. (One of several Can You See What I See? titles.) Ages 2 – 5.


Enigma: A Magical Mystery
Author: Graeme Base
When Bertie the badger visits his grandfather at a retirement home for magicians, he learns that his grandfather's rabbit, Enigma, has disappeared along with everyone's magical things, and the reader is invited to help break a code to find the items hidden throughout the book. Includes a built-in decoder. Ages 7 – 9.


Everything Goes On Land
Author: Brian Biggs
A young boy learns about land vehicles from bicycles to subways and trolleys as he and his father travel to the train station. Ages 4 – 8


Find Anthony Ant
Author: Lorna Philpot
Features a version of the familiar number-pattern song "The Ants Go Marching" as well as a series of visual quests to locate one particular ant. Ages 3 – 6.


Find Chaffy
Author: Jamie Smart
Readers are asked to find Chaffy in ten picture puzzles featuring pandas, pigs, and robots. Ages 4 – 8.


Follow the Line Through the House
Author: Laura Ljungkvist
Rhyming text invites the reader to search different rooms of a house to find hidden objects. (One of several Follow the Line titles.) Ages 4 – 7.


Great Global Puzzle Challenge with Google Earth
Author: Clive Gifford
Challenges readers to solve geography-based puzzles using Google Earth. Ages 8 and up


Hide and Seek Farm
Author: Dawn Sirett
Young readers are challenged to search pictures for animals and other things found in the farm. Ages 2 – 5


I Spy Spectacular: A Book of Picture Puzzles
Author: Jean Marzollo
Celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the I Spy series with classic picture riddles and information on the series' history. (One of many I Spy titles.) Ages 4 – 8.


Look! A Book!
Author: Bob Staake
Easy-to-read, rhyming text invites the reader to search for items on a different theme on each page, while celebrating the wonder of a picture book. Ages 3 – 6.


Look-Alikes: Around the World
Author: Joan Steiner
This postcard album will challenge and captivate puzzlers of all ages with its three-dimensional scenes of more than 40 famous landmarks and familiar vacation locales--from the shores of Cape Cod and chateaus across Europe to the Egyptian pyramids and the majestic Taj Mahal. Complete with photographs of the actual sites, fascinating facts, and more than 500 look-alikes to search for. (One of several Look-Alikes titles.) Ages 5 – 8.


Maze Ways: A to Z
Author: Roxie Munro
Presents themed, illustrated mazes for the letters of the alphabet--such as an airport for "a" and a circus for "c"--and includes over seven hundred items to search for on the way through them. Ages 7 – 9


Mother Goose Picture Puzzles
Author: Will Hillenbrand
Nursery rhymes are presented in the form of rebuses. Ages 4 – 6


Ocean Hide and Seek
Author: Jennifer E. Kramer
Rhyming text and illustrations present a variety of animals that are camouflaged in the ocean. Ages 4 – 8


Richard Scarry’s Find Your ABC’s
Author: Richard Scarry
With the help of the reader, two detectives search for the letters of the alphabet. Ages 3 – 6.


Spot 7 Toys: Seek and Find
Author: KIDSLABEL
Presents pairs of seemingly identical toy-themed photos, each containing differences the reader must find, and also includes riddles and challenges to find specific items on the right-hand pages. ( One of several Spot 7 titles.) Ages 5 – 7.


Spot It! Find the Hidden Creatures
Author: Delphine Chedru
In colorful patterns sixteen creatures lie hidden waiting to be spotted. Ages 3 – 6.


Super Snow Day Seek and Find
Author: Michael Garland
When a heavy snowfall causes schools and businesses to close, Tommy follows a series of notes from his Aunt Jeanne as he explores the frozen landscape, makes new friends, and participates in winter sports. Ages 5-8


Tickets to Ride
Author: Mark Rogalski
Introduces each letter of the alphabet as the beginning letter in the name for an imaginative ride at an amusement park. Ages 6 – 11


What Dat! The Great Big Uglydoll
Author: David Horvath
Readers must help Babo find objects in the busy Uglyverse scenes by matching pictures with the identifying words. Ages 6 – 9


Where’s the Meerkat?
Author: Paul Moran
A family of ten meerkats is hidden in every picture of various world locations. Ages 5-7


Where’s Waldo: The Great Picture Hunt
Author: Martin Handford
The reader is invited to find Waldo and each of a group of unusual portraits in the detailed illustrations of crowds in a gallery, at a sporting event, and in other settings. (One of many Where’s Waldo titles.) Ages 6 – 12.


Whose Nose and Toes?
Author: John Butler
Presents illustrations of toes and noses, and challenges young readers to match them with the correct animal. Ages 2 – 5.