Keep your eyes glued to the page...because something strange and wonderful is happening! When a random pattern of squares suddenly becomes a face, when the press-out black-and-white spinning wheel bursts into colors, or when special glasses (found in the book) transform a dotted pattern into 3-D splendor--then visual magic is in the air. These 30 tricks and illusions will delight you for hours. Watch as a goldfish seems to vanish from a picture, try to figure out which of two goats is actually bigger, and focus on the workings of some impossible shapes. Here's one to whet your appetite, called Upstairs, Downstairs, drawn by artist M.C. Escher. At first glance, this illustration looks like an ordinary house. But start tracing the staircase at the top it with your finger, beginning at what you think is the bottom step. The staircase seems to be going up...and yet the top and bottom steps are actually next to each other!64 pages (all in color), 7 5/8 x 7 1/2. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.