Can You See What I See?: Dream Machine (2003).Can You See What I See?: Picture Puzzles to Search and Solve (2002).A Drop of Water: A Book of Science & Wonder (1997).I Spy: A Book of Picture Riddles (1992).Wick is married to Linda Cheverton Wick, a former photo prop stylist for magazines and cookbooks. Wick's collection of work, Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos, and Toys in the Attic, continues to exhibit in museums across the country including the Vero Beach Museum of Art, the Shelburne Museum, and Brigham Young University Museum of Art. The scenes he photographs can take anywhere from several days to several weeks to be constructed each book Wick works on takes about a year of work to complete. Wick originally used a large-format camera for his I Spy photographs, which created 8x10 negatives. In 2003, Wick and his wife purchased an abandoned 1920 firehouse from the city of Hartford and renovated the building into an art studio. His book Walter Wick's Optical Tricks was named one of the year's 'best illustrated books' by The New York Times.

Wick received the Boston Globe-Horn Book first prize for non-fiction for his book A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder (1997). Eight original titles were produced and millions of copies sold. In 1991, Wick began a collaboration with writer Jean Marzollo on the enormously successful I Spy search-and-find picture books. He also created photographic puzzles for Games magazine. He contributed to Scholastic's Let's Find Out and Super Science series and photographed hundreds of mass-market magazine covers. He embarked on a career as a commercial photographer and eventually shifted to photo-illustration for books and magazines. Career Īfter graduation, he opened a studio in New York.

Wick studied photojournalism at the Paier College of Art. His brother introduced him to photography. Wick was born in Hartford, Connecticut and grew up in rural East Granby, Connecticut. Walter Wick (born February 23, 1953) is an American artist and photographer best known for the elaborate images in two series of picture book activities for young children, I Spy (1992 to 1999) and Can You See What I See? (2002 to 2013), both published by Scholastic.

I Spy Mystery by Walter Wick