I Spy Fantasy is the fifth book in the I Spy Classic series. A list of Answers Sheets for this book are availablehere. City Blocks (I Spy Super Challenger) Into the Woods (I Spy Year-Round Challenger) Clouds Yikes! (I Spy Extreme Challenger) Blast Off! (I Spy Gold Challenger) Flight of Fancy (I Spy Super Challenger) Sand Castle (I Spy Gold Challenger) Ballerina (I Spy Spectacular) Monster. Review for game: I Spy Fantasy. Explore three fantastical worlds filled with unique characters, fun games and challenging I Spy riddles. During your travels, search for lost treasures beneath the sea, command a mission on an alien planet, or invade a castle to defeat the dragon and rescue the princess.

Iwrote I SPY FANTASY to honor the imagination of children. I remember a wonderful meeting in March 1993 when Walter Wick, I SPY artist and photographer; Carol Devine Carson, I SPY book designer; and I, the author, met at Scholastic with Grace Maccarone, editor; Bernette Ford, publisher of Cartwheel Books (a Scholastic imprint); and Edie Weinberg, art director, to talk about the 5th I SPY book.

I name these people on purpose to thank them for being there at I SPY’s beginning. So far, we had created I SPY, I SPY CHRISTMAS, I SPY FUN HOUSE, and I SPY MYSTERY.

Now what? Walter had suggested I SPY FANTASY. We loved that idea and brainstormed many good picture ideas at that meeting. During the creation of the book, Walter and I discussed every picture. At one point I faxed him this note: “I really like the concept for the overall book – you play with the things young kids play with—blocks, sand, water, etc.—only you do it better. But the starting point is the same.”

I Spy Fantasy A Book Of Picture Riddles

I remember sending Walter a photo of a space station my sons had made when they were young. It featured glass saltshakers filled with colored water—and look! There they are on page 16, directly inspired by kids.