Zoom

Banyai, Istvan. Zoom. New York, NY: Puffin Books, 1998.

This is a wonderful wordless picture book. The title is indicative of the book. The first page is a close up of part of a rooster's head. On every page the picture zooms out from this first picture. The book is full of surprises. I thought at first that the girl was playing with her toys, but in turned out to be the cover of a magazine. The author leaves clues throughout the book that leads the reader to guess what they are looking at. An example of this would be the edge of the stamp on the picture of the man watching the television in the desert. I knew that the story had moved to from pictures to real life when the people and dog moved from their original positions. At the end the story zoomed out to some place where the Earth was seen as a tiny speck. Where is the place that the whole book zooms in form. Is it a person, place, alien or perhaps even God, that is the source of origin?