I Wish - Hardcover

This visually innovative book explores several hypothetical situations, each introduced by the words "I wish" presented in oversized type. Some of the narrator's yearnings are traditional ("I wish I were swimming in a deep blue sea!"; "I wish I were flying so high in the sky!"), while others are more idiosyncratic ("I wish I were inside a color TV!"). After each wish is expressed, a turn of the page leads to a full-spread, vibrantly colored photograph in which Tofts has arranged fanciful collections of objects, somewhat in the manner of Walter Wick's compositions in the I Spy books. Superimposed against these surrealistic pictures are rather mediocre verses describing each venture into the imagination (the text for the wish to be inside a TV: "Squiggly wires, colored lights,/ cars chasing cars,/ tigers, birds, and cowboy fights,/ rockets off to Mars!"). Graphically ambitious, but uneven as a whole. Ages 4-7.
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