Re-Zoom

has read any of my other reviews knows that being speechless isn't one of my major problems :- D
There isn't a written discription of this book that is adequate... The book is entirely visual. It is one continuous picture that changes in perspective by "ZOOMING" in on a part of the prior picture. It's like looking at a snow-globe....than being in the snow-globe....than being in a picture IN the snow-globe. The artwork is fascinating and the ability to pre-think the work as a whole would have daunted me if i were the artist... What a gift this book is. I bought it for my son but it has made a much more incredable impact on any adult i show it to. if you choose this book you will NOT be sorry. And it makes and excellent gift for a person "who has everything". I think if i had to be stuck on a desert island with one book this would be it!

This is a gorgeous book; you can keep looking at the images for a long time and see new things. I actually use the book in class; I teach a subject that required a non-linear perspective, but rather I have to get the students to see things from a Macro to Micro perspective, not in a this happens then this happens. This book has been very successful in helping that process to occur. I actually disassemble the book, laminate the pages, and can adjust for it groups taking out some of the pages for the activity. I will not allow the students to show one another the pages, but instead, they have to describe what they think is important. Most students, based on how they have been taught to think, will describe the scene in terms of events of what is occurring, giving little emphasis to the detail of the images. Instead, about ten minutes in I let the students know that sometimes a story does not start where they think it starts; some cultures value emphasis on events or things over being linear. Then, after a bit more time, I let the students know the name of the book; which clues them in a little bit. Finally, I let the students show one another the pages, which they then put in order pretty quickly.

It’s a great activity to teach perspective. A lot of times we are trained to see things a certain way, but not all people and cultures are that way. This book is great for that type of activity and lesson to teacher. It’d also work well with one’s own child, even trying to guess what happens next in the story.

If you have never seen any books by this author before then I would recommend purchasing "Zoom". It's amazing which made me slightly disappointed with this one. I was hoping it would be just as good as the first but it was harder to follow and wasn't as fun to look at. I wish I had not bought it.

I have the original Zoom book and this one. Re-zoom is not as easy to follow as the original. I use the books in groups and finally had to stop using Re-zoom because too many people "didn't get it" as easily as they get the original.

I took the book apart, and put each page in an inexpensive black folder. You could use large envelopes. Each student got one or two, depending on the number of students in the class. They had 15 minutes to put themselves in order, without showing their picture to anyone else- they had to "use their words." I was amazed how much they LOVED this activity!! It also gave us a common vocabulary throughout the year when I said "zoom out / zoom in" as we adjusted the level of detail as we studied. This was a really valuable skill for us all year!

Buy the zoom book and you do not need re-zoom. I am not really sure why I bought this, except I thought it would be a little different, well I was wrong. Same concept, just different pictures...eh! stick with zoom # 1 a classic which teaches a lesson in how we view the world around us.

I use this to demonstrate how everyone in our organizations jobs affect everyone else's job, I call it the big picture. I have ordered 7 books in the last few years, so that others can teach the same exercise..

Follows the same theme as zoom his first book but not as creative and the zoom doesnt quite line up. If I could do it again I wouldn't bother.

Separated the pages and split my team up in to small groups. Gave them minimal direction for putting the pages in order. They get to work together and then combine the groups to put entire book together as a whole team.
They loved it, then I told them the age recommendation for the book. That got a few more laughs.
I am sure it would be great to discuss the pages with a small child, but it works great for team building too.

I attended a workshop at the Yale Center for British Art and there were many excellent activities for teachers to use in their classrooms. One of the exercises involved the ZOOM book. I did a search to see if there were any others and discovered this one. It is useful to develop students' organizational and observational skills as well as getting them to work together to solve a problem they have never seen before!

I cut out the pages and will laminate them to distribute to my classes. Then let them use the class period to work together to place the pictures in order They can ZOOM out or ZOOM in! It's a great way to engage all learners and make math fun!