Sneaking geography into kids can be a challenge – how to make it fun and interesting without their being aware you’re doing it? Try “Look-Alikes Around the World: An Album of Amazing Postcards” ($15.99, Little, Brown and Company), in which artist and author Joan Steiner takes photographs of real places and turns them into eye-catching postcard illustrations, which then have a certain number of “look-alikes,” things such as dice, pistachio nuts, candy wrappers, dog biscuits, you name it, that can be found by scrutinizing the pictures, in “I Spy” fashion. Along the way, things about each country are bound to seep into the subconscious, and at the end of the book, the real photos are provided in stamp form, along with trivia about the location and the countries and lists of the look-alikes.
