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Books with author Istvan Banyai

  • Zoom

    Istvan Banyai

    Paperback (Puffin Books, July 1, 1998)
    As seen on the SERIAL podcast, season 2, episode 1 ("Dustwun")!Open this wordless book and zoom from a farm to a ship to a city street to a desert island. But if you think you know where you are, guess again. For nothing is ever as it seems in Istvan Banyai's sleek, mysterious landscapes of pictures within pictures, which will tease and delight readers of all ages. "This book has the fascinating appeal of such works of visual trickery as the Waldo and Magic Eye books." -- Kirkus Reviews"Ingenious."-- The Horn Book
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  • Re-Zoom

    Istvan Banyai

    Paperback (Puffin Books, Nov. 1, 1998)
    Open this wordless book and take off on mind-bending visual journeys 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.
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  • Zoom

    Istvan Banyai

    Hardcover (Viking Books for Young Readers, March 1, 1995)
    As seen on the SERIAL podcast, season 2, episode 1 ("Dustwun")! Open this wordless book and zoom from a farm to a ship to a city street to a desert island. But if you think you know where you are, guess again. For nothing is ever as it seems in Istvan Banyai's sleek, mysterious landscapes of pictures within pictures, which will tease and delight readers of all ages. "This book has the fascinating appeal of such works of visual trickery as the Waldo and Magic Eye books." -- Kirkus Reviews"Ingenious."-- The Horn Book
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  • The Other Side

    Istvan Banyai

    Hardcover (Chronicle Books, July 7, 2005)
    In The Other Side, artist, designer, provocateur Istvan Banyai takes readers on another exceptional visual journey. In graphically stunning illustrations that feature many clever twists in point of view, familiar scenes turn and turn again to show us the back, the front, the top, the bottom, the opposite, the other side of each perspective. Here's a door. What's on the other side? Here's a shoreline. What's on the other side? Here's a curtain. What's on the other side? The answers may surprise you. Delightful, sly, funny, and challenging, The Other Side will make readers want to look, and think, twice.
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  • Re-Zoom

    Istvan Banyai

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Nov. 1, 1998)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. This wordless picture book provides page-after-page of shapes that carry the reader through a bright and exciting journey to different places filled with different colors.
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    Istvan Banyai

    Library Binding (Paw Prints 2008-10-15, Oct. 15, 2008)
    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. "Banyai's artwork...works to perfection."-- Kirkus Reviews
  • R.E.M.

    Istvan Banyai

    Hardcover (Viking Juvenile, May 1, 1997)
    This graphic representation of a young boy's dreams, told completely in pictures, takes place in a whirlwind make-believe world where a dancing snowman becomes a princess and a frog turns into a prince.
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  • Re-Zoom

    Istvan Banyai

    Hardcover (Viking Juvenile, Sept. 1, 1995)
    Full-color illustrations drawn with a new type of visual sleight-of-hand reveal striking surprises and promise to alter the viewer's perspective of what is actually there. By the author of Zoom.
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  • The Other Side by Istvan Banyai

    Istvan Banyai

    Hardcover (Chronicle Books, March 15, 1808)
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  • Zoom

    Istvan Banyai

    Hardcover (Viking Juvenile, March 1, 1995)
    A unique and groundbreaking picture book offers compelling illustrations that, without words, create a world full of nuances and details, full of striking tableaus that seem to transform before your eyes.
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  • Zoom

    Istvan Banyai

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, July 1, 1998)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A wordless picture book takes young readers on an imaginative journey to different places with each turn of the page. Various landscapes are presented in full-color illustration.
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  • The Other Side

    Istvan Banyai

    Hardcover (Chronicle Books, Aug. 4, 2005)
    In The Other Side, artist, designer, provocateur Istvan Banyai takes readers on another exceptional visual journey. In graphically stunning illustrations that feature many clever twists in point of view, familiar scenes turn and turn again to show us the back, the front, the top, the bottom, the opposite, the other side of each perspective. Here's a door. What's on the other side? Here's a shoreline. What's on the other side? Here's a curtain. What's on the other side? The answers may surprise you. Delightful, sly, funny, and challenging, The Other Side will make readers want to look, and think, twice.