This is a fairly thick book in a large format and the illustrations are really big, so even I don't have to squint to see all of the effects. Inside the book are 96 pages with over 80 optical illusions - enough to satisfy anyone.
Each optical illusion is explained so that the reader understands what is happening and often exactly why it happens. This is a puzzle book with the answers on every page and there is a really varied assortment of different optical illusions and ways to trick our eyes, our brains, or both.
My 10 year old especially loves this book and so do I. I actually had an incredibly similar book for Christmas when I was around his age and I still have it now because it was a favourite. I'll never grow out of finding optical illusions fascinating.
Amazing Optical Illusions is modern and bright, with full colour throughout and big bold images and photos. It makes use of computer-generated images and modern technology to bring us much more than I had in my book as a child, and the illusions are just as much fun for me to try and understand as they are for my boys.
Amazing Optical Illusions is written by Gianni A Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber and published by Carlton Kids Books. Glossy paperback in large format with 96 colour pages. Available to buy now priced £9.99rrp from all good bookshops, including online at Amazon*.
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Probably that stupid dress last year. I can't think of another!
ReplyDeleteI don't recall much of my childhood but I do have one strong memory.... when I was 6, I 'saw' a flying saucer during the day time when I was returning home from a friends house. I remember running home to tell my mam and dad and then I drew a picture of it. My parents still have that picture in their photo album and when we look at it, they still say I was absolutely adamant that I had seen a UFO and I talked about it for months afterwards and told my friends, my teacher and nearly everyone I met! Looking back, I am sure I must have seen something strange in the sky and it must have been a UFO! Funnily enough, my favourite movie genre is horror/supernatural/alien movies and I often watch documentaries about UFO/ghosts and even the Loch Ness Monster sightings! And I have always loved Star Trek and Doctor Who too and Blake 7 when I was little!
ReplyDeleteA sheep eating my veg garden - havent a clue how it got there: rsca sorted it out
ReplyDeleteI saw Elvis in the clouds.
ReplyDeletewhen I saw a car right on top of a large tree & never the car or tree had any damage to it!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't believe my eyes when I woke up to find 6 sheep eating my plants in the garden, we live 7 miles from the nearest farm in the town!
ReplyDeletesome horses escaped from a local stable, i looked out my living room window to see i was being watched by a horse lol
ReplyDeleteI couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a mobility scooter going along the hard shoulder of a motorway!
ReplyDeleteI once saw a car driving down a footpath! because the road was closed I guess he thought he had found a way round. Was very exciting as he got stuck when he came to the crossing barrier, and the police had to go and sort him out! Still laugh when we go past that particular junction.
ReplyDeletesaw a ufo in the dark. it turned out to be an advertising blimp lol
ReplyDeleteAll the time! The worse time was when I screamed because I thought my friend was in my room when I had just woken up, turns out it was just my poster 😂
ReplyDeleteI once thought I seen Ed sheeran after chasing him in the middle of town it turned out it wasn't him after all haha 😂
ReplyDeleteFelt/Saw a ghost touch me, was surreal!
ReplyDeletemy son doing some polishing in his bedroom that just never happens thought it was a mirage
ReplyDeleteA family friend passed away a few weeks prior. One night I ordered a takeaway to be delivered and when it arrived the gentleman delivering it looked EXACTLY like the family friend who has passed away. I was so freaked out!
ReplyDeleteWhen my sister and I were children we used to stay overnight at our grandparent's house in a bedroom that overlooked the back garden. We had a fabulous long slide out there - it really was huge, probably about 8 feet high with a heavy metal frame. On morning we got up and looked out the window , only to see the slide was half in and half out of the garden stuck across the high wooden fence!
ReplyDeleteWe excitidley ran downstairs to report this phenomena to our grandparents who told us not to be ridiculous, that is until we dragged them outside to see for themselves!
My grandad and dad ended up having to recruit several neighbours to help them move it back! I guess the would be robbers should have brought more hands along!
A woman driving along with a traffic cone stuck under her front bumper. The noise was horrendous. Everyone was looking ang laughing but she carried on regardless
ReplyDeletea man driving with his shoes on the roof of the car must have forotten he put them there
ReplyDeletewhen we were on a friends boat at night i looked up and screamed because i thought the front of the boat was on fire ,turned out it was something called st Elmos fire which is a sort of light phenomina which can be seen at sea
ReplyDeleteWhen my eldest was a baby I was so sleep deprived I had a few hallucinations I swear lol! I am convinced I saw a mouse on the stairs and I thought my husband's arm was the baby another time!!! x
ReplyDeleteThere's a man I work with who looks exactly like my brother in law
ReplyDeleteMy husband tidying up after himself
ReplyDeleteMy wife paying for a round of drinks
ReplyDeleteI am always shocked when I see my kids nicely playing with each other longer than two minutes.
ReplyDeleteI saw a baby perched at the end of a boat at a theme park - I thought they were about to fall in !
ReplyDeleteI often think I see someone in the street I haven't seen for ages and it's not them but very shortly afterwards they do appear as though I have conjured them up
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw my daughter cleaning her room I couldn't believe my eyes
ReplyDeletewalking down the seafront and seeing someone walking their cat on a lead!
ReplyDeleteI keep seeing wiggly purple lines! Migraine sufferer.
ReplyDeleteA guy casually out doing his shopping with his pet rat on his shoulder.....loved it!
ReplyDeleteI am convinced I once saw a ghost - an old lady in old fashioned clothes riding an old fashioned bike at midnight...
ReplyDeleteDefinitely the blue/black dress that was everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI remember when i was about five playing in the back garden and a seagull flew over and dropped a really big fish which landed by my feet. I ended up with my photo in the local paper.
ReplyDeleteI was really ill in hospital and was hallucinating whilst on dialysis, i keep seeing dogs running across the walls
ReplyDeleteI was once convinced I saw a ghost. My parents used to run pubs & I went downstairs when it was shut to nick a bag of crisps & I thought I saw a man sitting in the corner drinking a pint. Didn;t think anything of it for a sec then looked again when I realised the pub was closed & he was gone.
ReplyDeleteAll the things that appear on Facebook optical illusions
ReplyDeleteMy remember when I was a child and my eyes deceiving me when I went to a circus and they had the funny mirrors that made you fat and thin and then they had lots of swirling colours on boards... Really made you blink your eyes to see what was going on!
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw a sheep rolling down the hill for fun! I initially thought I was seeing things but it done it again then again I had never seen anything like that before!
ReplyDeletel once saw a ghost, it was of a lady l knew and she appeared to me at the exact time of her death
ReplyDeleteThere is a 50p I see on a street near I live...thing is it's glued to the pavement, been there so long it's an old 50p.....I ALWAYS try to pick it uo! gets me everytime
ReplyDeleteWhen I tried to let my cat in the backdoor because she was sat waiting only to remember she had passed away the day before :(
ReplyDeleteI used to like the magic eye pictures
ReplyDeleteI saw a ghost once when I stayed in an old cottage. He was a world war one soldier and I later found out there had been a military hospital nearby.
ReplyDeleteim really good at spotting a C in a page full of O and a N on a page full of M's.
ReplyDeletei saw 2 ghosts one night while looking after my gran
ReplyDeleteI'm good at spotting double spaces after full-stops.
ReplyDeleteI got a shock when I saw that our female kitten was a tom
ReplyDeleteWe saw Andy Peters when we were having a day out at Alton Towers!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't believe my eyes when i saw my other half doing the washing up last night! A real mirage!
ReplyDeleteI thought I saw someone in my car drivers seat when walking up to it; was a play on shadows and sun. My heart was racing though thinking about how the h*ll I was going to handle the situation
ReplyDeleteYesterday - I saw someone walking across the courtyard to the front door. But when I went to check no one was there.
ReplyDeleteThat dress from about a year that some people saw as a different colour.
ReplyDeletemy grandson with the vacuum, I could not believe it
ReplyDeleteWe saw my husband's friend on the beach (or a version of him when he was younger and looking his absolute best). We got a phone call the next day to say he had passed away. Still not sure what to make of it!
ReplyDeleteMy wife paying for a round of drinks
ReplyDeletesaw jeremy kyle at a theme park
ReplyDeleteWhen we were in Porteventura theme park this year my son went to hold hands with a man that was not his dad. Was funny at the time as we bumped into the same man a few times
ReplyDeleteWe saw a chicken just walking down the street and a cat stalking behind it one morning. It was the most random site.
ReplyDeleteNoticing a distant object high in the sky, I ran indoors to get the binoculars. When I finally managed to find said object and focus/zoom in on it, I was in hysterics when I saw it was a giant inflatable t-Rex 🦖. There had been one ‘tethered’ at a local car garage for months and it must have somehow broke free. Hubby and I watched it for a good 10-15 minutes as it disappeared into the distance. I still laugh now when I think about it. Imagine looking out of an aeroplane window and seeing it passing by. You couldn’t make it up!
ReplyDeletehad a duck follow me around for a day turned out to be a local pet took him back to his owners they were very happy to see him
ReplyDeleteThought I saw my son tidying up but alas it wasn't true.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter sneaking downstairs and just appearing in front of my eyes, nearly jumped out of my skin
ReplyDeleteI always see something I am not expecti g in the school.playground. short skirts ect from parents
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