If You Like... Seek and Find Books

I think we all can relate to pouring over the pages of our favorite picture books as children, searching out the tiniest details. Maybe you created your own objects to seek out within the illustrations, or maybe you thoroughly enjoyed being given clues and prompts? Either way these picture puzzles can provide endless hours of fascination. Here are some new suggestions to continue the fun of this classic children's genre!

Come Out, Come Out, Chameleon!

By Jonty Howley

Beverly, MA: Happy Yak, an imprint of The Quarto Group, 2024. Picture Book.

Set in a clever story format designed for younger readers, Come Out, Come Out, Chameleon! is the perfect introduction to the seek-and-find genre as you help a slightly clueless old man search for his pet chameleon. An exasperated dog sidekick and a visual surprise at the end will have your little readers laughing out loud for more!

Where's Waldo: The Great Games Speed Search

By Martin Handford

Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2024. Picture Book.

The latest offering in the ever-popular Where's Waldo series, The Great Games Speed Search has a fun new twist! Lay the book out flat and face off with an opponent as you race against each other to see who can find Waldo the fastest --chase him through soccer matches, dances, singing competitions, and more!

The Sea Hides a Seahorse

Written by Sara T. Behrman

Illustrated by Melanie Mikecz

Oakland, CA: The Collective Book Studio, 2024. Picture Book.

Journey along with various species of seahorses, as they camouflage throughout their day while eating, hunting, and courting to outsmart predators. Can you find them all?

Masters of Disguise: Camouflaging Creatures & Magnificent Mimics

By Marc Martin

Somerville, MA: Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2021. Informational.

Chock full of information on how 12 very different species camouflage to survive and thrive, Masters of Disguise is not only beautifully illustrated, but also an engaging and challenging seek-and-find that is sure to draw in elementary audiences.

Lost in the Museum

Written by Will Mabbitt

Illustrated by Aaron Cushley

New York: DK Publishing, 2021. Picture Book.

Stevie is lost in The Met! How will she find her way to back to her family's meeting point? Follow along and search out clues through gorgeous illustrations of real-life Met exhibits!

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Review: Faker

Faker By Gordon Korman New York: Scholastic Press, 2024. Fiction. 214 pages. 12-year-old Trey is used to starting over at a new school -- he has the routine perfectly memorized: make new friends, introduce his dad to the wealthy parents of his new friends, and "Houdini" themselves out of there before they get caught running their latest scam. Trey's dad is a master con artist, and Trey has just been promoted to full-partner. Their new scheme for the next big score brings them to the affluent suburb of Boxelder, TN where Trey's dad has cooked up a fake electric car company for investors to buy into. The only problem is that Trey is starting to grow tired of moving around and never putting down roots, especially after forming a fast friendship with Logan and developing a crush on Kaylee, a socially conscious girl in his class. As Trey longs for a normal life, is there any way he can convince his dad to get out of the family business? Gordon Korman is a perennial favorit...

Dragon Run

Dragon Run by Patrick Matthews Scholastic, 2013. 336 pgs. Fantasy Al Pilgrommor is excited for Testing Day, when he will receive his rank, a tattooed number on the back of his neck, and a path forward to his future occupation and life. He feels confident because his parents were fours on a scale of seven, but he is worried for his friend Wisp who doesn't have much of a chance of scoring above a two at best. But when Al is scored a zero, he not only has no prospects, he may lose his life as the dreaded Cullers are unleashed to kill him and his family to purify the land's bloodlines. Al's world is ruled by dragons--the lords and supposed creators of humankind--so he thinks that even if he survives, he will have to make his living as a beggar or thief. But when Al sticks up for his Earther friend in front of Magister Ludi, he is drawn into the struggle of a secret organization hoping to destroy the Cullers, and perhaps the dragons them...

Review: The Bletchley Riddle

The Bletchley Riddle By Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin New York: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2024. Fiction. 392 pages. It's spring of 1940, Hitler has swept through most of Europe, and people believe England will be next. Half Polish-Jewish, half American Jakob has been recruited from Cambridge to Bletchley Park where they are working on deciphering the enigma machine. Jakob's sister Lizzie, meanwhile, is being forced to move from London to Cleveland to live with her grandmother after her mother disappeared in a 1939 attack in Poland. Lizzie manages to escape the keeper her grandmother sent for her to bring her to America and makes her way to Bletchley, where she's eventually given the task of delivering messages between departments. When secret messages begin appearing with Lizzie's belongings, she must decipher them to find the truth about her mother's past and location, while keeping the secrets away from the MI5 agent that seems a little t...

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