Animosaics: Can You Find It?

Really fun book! My kids loved racing to find the items in the monochromatic mosaic. Now that my kids have found everything I don't know how often they would look at the book again but I think it would be a good addition to a family library.

Animosaics: Can you find it by author Surya Sajnani is a fun children’s book that teaches more than just colors and shapes. This is a favorite here in our house! It is fun looking for all of the shapes and colors!
Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of Can You Find It in exchange for an honest review.

This visually impressive book will assist in developing a number of key skills of a young child including problem solving, recognition and attention to detail. In addition they will be able to add new words to their vocabulary The pages are in different colours and the aim is to identify specified objects that have been hidden within the larger picture which has a mosaic composition. Even for an adult some objects are not easy to find and strangely the level of difficulty seems to be related to what the colour is, for me the lighter the colour the more easier it was to identify the object.

Trying to engage, educate as well as increasing the child's attention span and of course at the same time entertaining them is not the easiest of things to achieve but this book goes some way to accomplishing this.

Is this the most adorable search and find book out there? It might be! It's geared towards a younger age than I expected - it's only 10 pages long, it's organized by colour, and finding the images is much easier than other search and find books (such as I Spy, Mamoko, The Lost House, Where's Waldo, etc). I can see it being extremely popular with kids aged 2 - 4. I think the hidden items are expertly chosen: a combination of cartoon shapes, everyday objects (glasses, crayon, spade), and fun imaginative objects (magic wand, candy floss, duck).

A truly beautiful and artistic search and find book for younger children. With a sturdy board book format I can foresee this becoming a well loved hit!

This is a unique search and find book! Each mosaic is one color and so are the items found within in, which can definitely add some challenge for children. Some of the colors are more challenging to find the items in, but it can lead to lots of discussion about details of images and how to use small details to find larger images. Each page also includes a shape to find allowing for discussion about those as well. I think this book would be great for a home library or a classroom!

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A lovely search and find book. Not too long so little ones won't get bored. Great mix of everyday and more unusual objects.

A mosaic on the left hides a number of items listed on the right. The fact they’re the same color makes it difficult, but certainly doable even for small children.
The second page, red, has the viewer looking for a “ladybird,” even though it’s obviously a “ladybug.” Made me chuckle.
Other than that, it’s both pretty basic yet also a nice switch on the average puzzle game.
3.5 pushed up to 4/5

I'm currently working on a children's book that contains puzzles, so I've been idly noting what's out there for a while, and I was curious about this one. The puzzles here are nothing like those I'm using though, so it was interesting to see another approach. It's all in color here, and though I'm not sure how it would work for anyone who is color-blind, the puzzles are not as easy as you might think, even for someone with all his opsins in a row!

The pages are each a single color - very bright and rainbow colors to be sure, but only a single color per puzzle. Hidden in the color and disguised by a mess of shapes and patterns are certain specific items you must find, different on each page. Some of them were a pain to uncover! Not that I'm especially great at puzzles, but unless you're a puzzle solver of Olympic proportions, this will certainly occupy your time pleasurably and satisfyingly, assuming you enjoy puzzles to begin with, and perhaps even if you haven't found your kind of puzzle yet! I commend this book as a satisfying and colorful brain exercise!

This is a beautiful and colourful children's activity book. Each page focuses on a different colour and contains a series of objects hidden within the large, mosaic-inspired pictures, just like the ones in the cover. Think of an easier version of finding Wally.

I love that the puzzles are separated by colour, so it can be used to teach colours to a toddler. It also looks great for kids sharing it and helping each other find the objects. Note that it's meant for small kids, otherwise they'll find the objects quickly and they'll finish the book too quickly.

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Super fun seek & find board book. A great first look at the genre for toddlers using fun animals, shapes and objects. The mosaic format is easily accessible, obscuring objects well, but not so hard as to be frustrating for little ones.

This was a beautiful hidden picture book, and I loved the plain/pure style of it. Though it looks very simple, not each hidden object was that easy to spot, and sometimes I even discovered some interesting additional shapes. The unicolored pages exude kind of a calming aura, which was surprisingly different - and much appreciated - from the usual hidden picture books for children (Wimmelbücher').

CAN YOU FIND IT? by Surya Sjnani is a search-and-find tool; an important children's book. Large, captivating and intriguing, thought by the creators of Wee Gallery, each page is colored in a special way: we find red, purple, green, grey, etc; toddlers are encouraged to recognize the hidden objects within the page.
It is a stimulating book this one and, implied, it contains a game that it is appreciated at every age: "Can you Find It?"

Highly recommended.

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This looks like a fun book for young children. Each two page spread features one color and one shape, along with pictures of small objects that are hidden in the mosaic-like illustration. I can happily imagine going through this book with a child; I am certain that we would both enjoy it!

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This simple, yet delightful book will provide hours entertainment for fans of hidden-object books, young and old. It introduces children to various day-to-day objects, as well as shapes and colours. Children as young as one are likely to be drawn to its colourful pages, while older children will be able to carefully scan each page looking for the items shown on the opposite page and describing what else they can see. It also introduces children to the concept of mosaics.
The only thing that bothered me was that the items and shapes had quite abstract, pointy forms and were therefore quite removed from reality.

This was a great and innovative kids books for teaching them colors, shapes and developing some of their abilities by recognizing similar things and finding things! It was quite short, and I think there could've been a bit more colors, but even so, a lot of fun.

Bright and colourful hidden object book. Great fun.

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What a colourful and fun book this is!
Oh course for adults this is very easy. Nothing like Where's Waldo on the difficulty side. But it's really good for little ones. If you're child hasn't yet been able to do the I Spy books or other middle grade (9-11) level spying books then this is a good pick instead. As a child I always loved seek and find books and as an adult my love for them has not waned. With Animosaics, there's also the additional benefit that they learn animals at the same time!

I would recommend sitting with the child and have them identify the name of the animal, then find the animal on the subsequent page. Most of the animals are one dominant colour so you could also do colours for each one if you wanted.
The best part about this book is it's published on hard back cardboard paper so you can even let your toddler flip the pages of colour and be amused. A great little teaching tool that is sure to be a hit with kids aged 5 or less!

This is a very simple board book for young children, a sort of I-Spy in different colors. On each 2 page layout, the left page has the page to search, the items blending in to the monochromatic background. The right hand page lists the items that can be found. Some colors are more challenging than others, the darker colors creating a better camouflage.

Ultimately a simple book that meets its intended purpose. My 8 year old son was interested and enjoyed it, but made quick work of it. A good book for children in the 4-7 year range, I'd think.