10 Hungry Rabbits: Counting & Color Concepts - Hardcover

Lobel, Anita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 037586864X ISBN 13: 9780375868641

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2012

Synopsis

From a Caldecott Honor artist comes a mouth-watering celebration of good things to eat that’s perfect for warm-weather reading and combines learning to count with color concepts!

One by one, 10 very hungry rabbits find 10 very yummy vegetables for Mama Rabbit's soup pot. One big purple cabbage, two white onions, three yellow peppers, and so on through 10—garden vegetables have never looked so appetizing!

Here Anita Lobel makes a delightful story for preschoolers with the two most basic early learning concepts, counting and color. And her beautiful illustrations of vegetables might even tempt picky eaters into new adventures in eating!

About this title

About the Author

ANITA LOBEL is well known and well loved by picture book fans young and old. Some of her standouts include her Caldecott Honor Book, On Market Street, written by Arnold Lobel, and, two books she wrote as well as illustrated, Alison's Zinnia and One Lighthouse, One Moon. Her most recent book, Nini Lost and Found, based on her own cat Nini's adventures,  was at the top of Booklist's Editors' Choice 2010 and was a Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of 2010.

Reviews

In this introduction to numbers and colors—which also champions healthful eating—poor Mama Rabbit doesn’t have anything to feed her hungry brood, so Papa Rabbit sends the little ones out to find the makings for a delicious soup. The 10 young bunnies head to the garden, each gathering colored vegetables and fruits (purple cabbage, yellow peppers, blueberries) in increasing amounts, from 1 to 10. Lobel’s gouache and watercolor illustrations are chock-full of charm and detail, especially the adorable, rotund rabbits—direct descendants of Beatrix Potter’s and Clement Hurd’s classic cottontails. However, it’s the educational components that are rightly front and center here, with both numbers and colors prominently highlighted, close-ups of grouped items for counting, and simple lines of descriptive text (“The seventh rabbit spotted SEVEN BROWN mushrooms”). An early learning concept book is an obvious choice for one-on-one sharing, but the book’s appealing scenes and petite size make it a good fit for little browsers, too. Preschool. --Kristen McKulski

Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 037586864X
• ISBN 13: 9780375868641
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 24