Del Norte Public Library

Explains the principles of illustration composition, explaining how viewers see shapes and unconsciously interpret colors and movement; demonstrates these principles through sample pictures showing the process of illustrating "Little Red Riding Hood."

The white shape silhouetted against a blue background changes on every page.Is it a rabbit, a bird, or just spilt milk? Children are kept guessing until the surprise ending -- and will be encouraged to improvise similar games of their own.

Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes on die-cut pages that form animal faces when placed on top of one another.

"A quarter of a century after her first book, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin-the "anthropologist from Mars," as Oliver Sacks dubbed her-transforms our understanding of the different ways our brains are wired. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously understood, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the purest "object visualizers" like Grandin herself,...

Presents a series of optical illusions and explains what is seen.

This book is designed to help the reader gain access to right-brain functions, which affect artistic and creative abilities, by teaching drawing through unusual exercises designed to increase visual skills. It includes updates based on recent research about the brain's plasticity and the emerging significance of right-brain functioning. It offers new tools for identifying and solving life problems with the visual-thinking skills acquired through drawing....

Explains how optical illusions occur when the brain is confused or tricked into seeing things based on previous memories and experiences.

A series of computer-generated 3D picture puzzles that challenge viewers to find the images within images.

Photographic puzzles follow an escaped pet mouse through a school while depicting such common school items as scissors, paper, books, and chalk. Readers are challenged to identify the objects as seen from the mouse's point of view.