


Jean Marzollo was the award-winning author of over 100 books, including Help Me Learn Numbers 0-20, Help Me Learn Addition, Help Me Learn Subtraction, Pierre the Penguin, Soccer Sam, Happy Birthday Martin Luther King, The Little Plant Doctor, In 1776, Mama Mama/Papa Papa, and I Am Water, as well as books for parents and teachers such as The New Kindergarten.

I never got that lucky break in my commercial career, but all of that hard work. The success of the books has been really nice.

Wick stated in a 1997 news article, "My career can really be put into two categories: before I Spy and after I Spy. I Spy merchandise has been sold in at least 31 countries worldwide. These served as early examples of an increasingly popular hidden object game genre. Several video games based on the I Spy books are available for Windows PC, Nintendo DS, Wii, iOS, Leapster, and Game Boy Advance, including I Spy Spooky Mansion, I Spy Treasure Hunt, and I Spy Fantasy. Each page contains a photo with objects in it, and the riddles (written in dactylic tetrameter rhyme ) accompanying the photo state which objects have to be found.Īlthough the first I Spy book contains unrelated pages of still life pictures, subsequent books are more thematic. I Spy is a children's book series with text written by Jean Marzollo, photographs by Walter Wick, and published by Scholastic Press. For other uses, see I Spy (disambiguation).
