Another Eric Carle book, with Bill Martin Jr., that we love right now is “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” the slide and find edition. It is a large thick book, same bright colors on white backgrounds like he is famous for but has sliding trap doors added to slide back the words on the page and find an animal underneath. For example, “Brown bear, Brown bear what do you see?” Then slide back the part that says “I see a purple horse looking at me!” to see the purple horse. Then the next page reinforces the purple horse and opens the slide door to the next animal. “Purple horse, purple horse, what do you see?” “I see a yellow duck looking at me!” etc.
The images, very high contrast with the white background, take up two full pages and are easy for visually impaired kids to spot and point out. Sliding the secret door works on their problem solving and fine motor skills while they learn their animals and colors. It is quickly becoming one of our favorites to read with Liam before bed. I’d definitely recommend any Eric Carle books for use with visually impaired children but all children seem to love and enjoy them. I wonder if Eric Carle ever thought these books would be great for visually impaired children when he picked up this style since he always seems to lean towards simple and large high contrast images….something to look into I guess.
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