The wordless picture book Zoom is by Istvan Banyai. It is geared toward 1st-4th graders. I would rate this book 4 out of 5 stars.
This book starts with a picture that is hard to make out what it is. As the reader moves to each page, the image zooms out more and more. The reader is constantly shocked that the world they perceived to be to scale is actually much tinier than imagined. A farm becomes a toy set which becomes the cover of a magazine which becomes a cruise ship which becomes an ad on a bus on a television in the desert which is a stamp on a letter on an island that a plane is flying over. Then the pictures zoom out to the Earth form space.
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| Page 2 in Zoom |
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| Page 1 in Zoom |
Zoom could be used for students to think about what communities they are in on a small and large scale. For instance, a child could draw themselves on a soccer field playing with their team then draw their school as a whole, then draw their city as a whole, their state as a whole, their country as a whole, and so on. This can help students assess how many levels play into their lives. Students could also explore the idea of this book using photography or drawing.
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| A Sequence in Zoom |
They could find an object in nature or in a classroom, say a flower. They could begin really close to it and back up until the observer can tell what the object is. This is a way for students to feel like they are inventing riddles, so the interest level will be high.
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