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Illusions in Art used negative and positive space (terminology explained in the last pages) to create illusions of food images. The text gave the directions needed to help see the second image. The answer was at the bottom of the page so you are never left wondering if you were correct. It is a nice idea to have elements of art being introduced to the very young reader. This book is geared for babies through age 3, but since they are at a concrete stage of brain development, I am not sure how capable they are of seeing the illusionary image. This age group would need a good word bank of food items to know the names of what they were seeing on some of the pages. This may just be the type of book that helps develop an eye for art and flexible thinking, but it may work better for older children.