Written Resources

Ades, Dawn, ed. by, Dali's Optical Illusions, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art & Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000

Beeler, Nelson and Branley, Franklyn, Experiments in Optical Illusion, Thomas Crowell Company, New York, 1951

Cobb, Vicki, How to Really Fool Yourself: Illusions for all your Senses, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1999.
Highly recommended for elementary students.

Coren, Stanley and Girgus, Joan Stern, Seeing is Deceiving: The Psychology of Visual Illusions, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1978

Hunter, Sam, Modern American-OpArt, and the School of Color, McCall Publishing Company, New York, 1970

Kay, Keith, The Little Giant Book of Optical Illusions, Sterling Publishing Company, New York, 2000
Highly recommended for elementary students.

Muir, Duncan, Optical Illusions: How They Trick the Eyes, Zigzag Publishing, Surrey, England, 1978
Highly recommended for elementary students.

Simon, Seymour, Now You See It, Now You Don’t, Morrow Junior Books, New York, 1998

Simon, Seymour, The Optical Illusion Book, William Morrow and Company, New York, 1984

Sturgis, Alexander, Optical Illusions in Art, Sterling Publishing Company, New York, 1996

White, Laurence & Ray Broekel, Optical Illusions, Franklin Watts, New York, 1986.

Wick, Walter, Optical Illusions, Scholastic, New York, 1998
Highly recommended for elementary students.