Fowler Public Library

Get ready for this hilarious cartoon collection that invites readers into the singularly comical world of O'Brien. In multiple-panel cartoons, a cast of bizarre characters find themselves in a lopsided universe where things are never as they seem.

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

The reader is asked a question about each page of animal pictures.

Text and photographs explore the textures of our natural and man-made environment through such things as art objects, buildings, grass, a quarry, and a turtle.

The reader tries to follow Waldo as he embarks on a fantastic journey among the Gobbling Gluttons, the Battling Monks, the Deep-sea Divers, the Underground Hunters, and the Land of Waldos in search of a special scroll.

Salvador Dali is just one artist that employed the use of double images in his art. This historical practice can really puzzle someone looking at Dali's artwork, until they see the second image. This book introduces readers to interesting artistic concepts as well as how the human brain perceives them. Readers draw connections between scientific theory, art, and their own experiences looking at the many optical illusions found in each chapter. A sure...

Text and photographs explore "line" in nature, architecture, clothing, food, and all of our environment and demonstrate its uses in art works.

"Includes images representing opposing concepts like small and large, empty and full, hot and cold, and open and closed"--

Explains patterns through predictable nature events such as day and night, seasons, and weather.