Zoom by Istvan Banyai

Tuesday Treasure

Zoom is a wordless book (IBBY call them Silent books) with a powerful story that will surprise you as you turn every page. I do think it is important to experience this book from the paper copy but here is a special video with perfect sound effects. When you watch this video I think you will agree Zoom is quite unique. It also a book you can read from front to back and back to front. If you want to share this book with a whole class here is a slide share of each page and this might be a better way to approach this book as you can move more slowly than the video.

I am happy to report this book is still in print and there is a companion volume which is slightly more sophisticated.  My former library have discarded this second book but luckily it is still in print.

Istvan Banyai was born in Hungry but now lives in Connecticut USA.

Zoom Kirkus - "the effect is of a movie camera panning backward, faster and faster ... "
Re-Zoom Kirkus - "Like Chinese boxes in reverse, each colorful illustration is revealed as part of a larger artwork."

If you want to explore a different poetry form with a class, sijo from Korea is interesting. Here is a book of poems by Linda Sue Park illustrated by Istvan Banyai. Take a look here to see some examples of sijo.