Re-Zoom by Istvan Banyai

Re-Zoom by Istvan Banyai

Prepare to be whisked away! Open this wordless book and take off on a mindbending visual journey full of twists, turns, and surprises. Zoom from an Egyptian pyramid to an exotic jungle to a sandy beach. But if you think you know where you are, guess again! For in Istvan Banyai's mysterious landscapes of pictures within pictures, nothing is ever as it seems. 

We also have Zoom, the first book in this series, available.

Book Details:

• Number of Pages: 64
• Book Size: 7-1/4" x 8-3/4"
• Book Type: Paperback, Library Binding
• Recommended Ages: 5 through adult
• ISBN 10: 014055694X
• ISBN 13: 978-0140556940

Book Condition:

• This book is brand new and is in perfect condition. 

"Re-Zoom resumes, or more accurately, reprises, the layout and nothing-is-as-it-seems perspective of last season's Zoom. Featuring detailed drawings backpainted on animation cels, this text-free volume opens with a red-on-blue cave painting that, with the turn of a page, becomes a detail on a wristwatch. The next spread reveals that the watch belongs to a young man doing a rubbing of carved hieroglyphs... and so on. To surprise his audience, which may already expect the sequence of pictures to expand to infinity, as in Zoom, Banyai toys not only with spatial relations but with time and with cultural referents: people in 19th-century garb, admiring an image of Napoleon, turn out to be on a movie set; a woman in traditional Japanese dress sports a yellow Walkman. There are nods to the arts as well. A black-and-white Alfred Hitchcock and a blue bodhisattva sit astride a thundering elephant, and a dejected-looking Picasso rides the New York City subway. The finale-which leaves readers in a subway tunnel as the train's red taillights recede-may not be as mindbending as Zoom's outer-space flight, but is nonetheless a clever solution. All ages." - Publishers Weekly 

Why We Love It

This is truly a unique book that kids (and adults) of all ages will love to look at again and again. Use it as a springboard to stimulating imaginations.

Creative Ideas to Try

What other things can you do with this product? We've included some of our "outside the box" creative ideas below to help get you started...

• Make color-copies of the pages of this book and have your children put the pages in the proper order. A great lesson in sequential order.
• When you need an ice-breaker activity (for a new class, a party, or even for meetings at work), give each person a color-copy of a single page from this book. Challenge the group to order themselves sequentially. A fun activity for kids and adults!