How Many Fish? (My First I Can Read Book) - Hardcover

Cohen, Caron Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060277130 ISBN 13: 9780060277130

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1998

Synopsis

A school of fish and a group of children frolic in the bay

About this title

About the Author

Caron Lee Cohen is the author of many picture books including Where's the Fly? illustrated by Nancy Barnet and How Many Fish? illustrated by S.D. Schindler. She lives in New York City.

Reviews

PreSchool-K?A very simple story in rhyme, set at the beach. Not only can beginning readers feel successful at mastering the short, repetitive sentences, but they can also excel at counting the human feet and fish under the water. Colorful illustrations enhance the text. Libraries that never seem to have enough of the easiest primers will want to add this appealing title.?Blair Christolon, Prince William Library, Manassas, VA
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This My First I Can Read title is a rhythmic puzzle for the youngest of readers. A school of six fish swimming happily in the bay come up against the six feet belonging to three children, one of them armed with a red pail. An energetic and repetitive refrain will be comfortable for emerging readers; the visual clues supplied by Schindler's bold illustrations also build math skills. A gentle drama about an odd fish out--it is captured in the pail but escapes when the small pail-wielder's attention is claimed elsewhere--will appeal to children and boost their confidence in taking on more difficult reading material. (Fiction. 4-6) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Gr. 1^-2. From the My First I Can Read Book series comes a simple story that offers repetition, rhythm, and rhyme to speed beginners on their way into reading. Six fish are swimming in the shallows when six children's feet appear. One fish is trapped under a child's upside-down pail, until the child returns to retrieve the toy and unknowingly releases the fish. Schindler's pictures contribute color and visual clues to the action for those who need them. Adults determined to do so can make this into a counting book as well, but what the text and pictures really have to offer is a story simple enough for beginning readers to cut their teeth on and appealing enough for them to stick with. On that basis alone, it will be welcome in many libraries. Carolyn Phelan

Edition details

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060277130
• ISBN 13: 9780060277130
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Schindler S. D.
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 25