There s nothing green at all. The creators of TV shows, ads, and computer games assume that scale, perspective, and cropping are familiar ideas. Or see a deathdefying stunt in a magazine ad and decide to try it ourselves. The book was called Zoom . It means they re self-pointing.
Zoom opens with an odd red shape, serrated or crenellated, and dotted with yellow spots.
Turn the page and you see it s a rooster s comb. On page three, the picture zooms again, to show two children looking out a window at the rooster. Page five, still working on the concept of scale, shows the farmhouse and yard, with pigs and chickens, geese, a horse, and a cat. Then, two zooms past the pig, a pair of large hands appear in the picture. The parents tried to be into it for the kids, to show surprise, even though they d seen the book before.