The Ultimate Person-Building Kit!
Ellen Duthie
Imagine you could build a person.
The poster that comes with the second Visual Philosophy for Children series by Wonder Ponder, I, Person, suggests you might be able to do just this.
An advert for no less than a 'Person-building kit'. And it's not any old 'person-building kit', no: it's the ultimate one!
It's the latest addition to the Think & Build series...
It offers no end of possibilities:
All you have to decide is 'what makes a person'. And to get to the minimum necessary parts a person must have, the game proposes a sort of mikado. How many parts can you remove from a person before they stop being a person?
Think and build...
It includes suggested 'person' models:
And a final warning:
The authors of the Wonder Ponder Visual Philsophy Series take the posters that come in the boxes very seriously and make them much more than an attractive gift. They take a great deal of work and seek to complement the rest of the content in a way that is fun and interesting. Cruelty Bites, the first title in the series, also has a fantastic poster, a sort of cross between Where's Wally and The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch, which includes several of the characters from Cruelty Bites and many others from children's literature to look for.
More information about I, Person.
More information about Cruelty Bites.