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This clever wordless story is a mind-bending visual journey filled with twists, turns and surprises. The concept is simple: as the book progresses, each picture becomes the zoomed-out detail in a larger, subsequent scene. The opening image, for instance, a textured, red-on-blue cave painting of a man holding a bow, is reduced to a mere detail on the face of the wristwatch of an archeologist taking a rubbing of a wall in an Egyptian tomb, which then becomes something else again as the reader turns the page and the perspective continues zooming outward until the end. The book's full-page pictures-within-pictures, all brightly and intricately detailed, take readers across continents and time periods, each place with a surprising connection to the place before. From an Egyptian pyramid to an exotic jungle to a sandy beach, to the final image of a dark subway tunnel and the dimming tail lights of a receding train, Re-Zoom will invite readers to re-examine. Grownups will recognize the witty inclusion of famous figures including Alfred Hitchcock, Pablo Picasso, Albert Einstein and Charles Lindbergh.