Zoom (1995)
Istvan Banyai
Banyai takes readers through a journey full of surprises in this wordless picturebook. Viewers will want to examine each page meticulously in order to understand the situation and make inferences about the characters and settings featured before moving on. When they do, the delightfully jarring shifts in perspective will cause further reflection of prior observations.
On each recto panel, Banyai transports the reader through different settings and social groups, each time defying the reader’s previous view of the world he has created. There are stories within stories here portrayed in the pictures that become part of grander illustrations with the turn of a page. Readers will have an inside view of the inside of a toy village, follow a letter addressed to an aboriginal tribal chief, watch a lonesome cowboy, and see the world from a pilot’s perspective. Ink and vibrant colors adeptly portray this shifting world.
Readers may enjoy using the changes in perspective as inspiration for writing, asking themselves what kind of story the various characters might relate.
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