Zoom and it's sequel of sorts, Re-Zoom, illustrated by Istvan Banyai, are both wordless stories that get the reader to predict and analyze images as they slowly zoom out to show great pictures. I have used this book multiple times in different classes, allowing students to guess what images will come next and create their own stories about what they think is happening as the images unfold. Reading the book forward you can imagine a story as each picture zooms out, but the book can just as easily be read backwards as you zoom in to each image.
The images make readers think of the world in a different perspective, to think outside the box and let their imagination grow.
I found looking at a few pages from this book was a great brain break. Students were pulled into the pictures trying to guess what that red spotted shape could possibly be. Was it a maple leaf? A claw?