Claude Delafosse

This book from the series First Discovery Books is one of the best. It uses a simple cardboard flashlight (that is a flashlight-shaped piece of sturdy paper with a white circle on the end to represent the "light") to reveal the secrets of underground dens and lairs. Each clear plastic page is illustrated with an image of an underground nest--such as a mole's home--and is placed in front of a black page. You can see vague outlines of things, but nothing clearly. That is until you put the"flashlight" between the clear plastic page and the black page and against the white circle the creatures become visible! It is so simple, but so, so effective. It is really magical. A child could easily spend hours scrutinizing each habitat. Wonderful little book.… (more)