"Two friends mount an ongoing creativity challenge in this collaborative picture book. When 'she' takes a photograph of something ordinary that seems ripe with imaginative possibilities, 'he' adds economically applied--and often comically inspired--lines and color, turning the photo's subject into something new, shown in pages that picture the photographs and drawings but never the friends. 'She saw a friendly seagull carrying the world on its shoulders,' reads the text on one verso page, accompanied by a photo of a plump, stolid-looking bird. 'He saw a friendly monster who had no worries at all' is the recto response, which accompanies an image of the gull's body transformed into the head of a grinning creature with snaggly teeth. While the varied visuals offer craft-time fun, it's the friends' interplay--and how they concur and diverge in their ideas--that makes the concept feel fresh. Even when pals are miles apart in what they see, Saltzberg (We're All in the Same Boat) and Curtis (Me, Myselfie & I) seem to say, they can appreciate, be tickled by, and connect via a new perspective: 'He loved what she saw . She loved what he would draw.' Back matter invites readers to engage in similar activities.

"--Publisher's Weekly.