Roman Numerals I to Mm: Numerabilia Romanana Uno Ad Duo Mila - Hardcover

Geisert, Arthur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395745195 ISBN 13: 9780395745199

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1996

Synopsis

An ingenious introduction to Roman Numerals equates various Roman Numerals to the correct number of piglets, and includes a series of spreads that allow readers to practice counting while uncovering the piglet adventure.

About this title

About the Author:

Arthur Geisert’s unique and exquisite etchings have been widely praised and exhibited at the Chicago Institute of Art, among other museums. His work is regularly selected for the Society of Illustrators’, annual Original Art exhibition, and his illustrations are now being collected by the Dubuque Museum of Art. He lives in a converted bank in Bernard, Iowa.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 3?Children who learned their numbers from Geisert's Pigs from 1 to 10 (Houghton, 1992) can now move on to trickier fare with the author's latest offering. If there's one thing this book has, it's pigs-MMMDCCCLXIV of them. In addition to lots of useful information about Roman numerals (such as how to subtract a smaller number if it is before a larger one, and add it if it is after), the artist creates a lively learning experience by featuring picture puzzles in which children must count the pigs to determine the value of a numeral. This process is fairly straightforward for I, V, and X, but becomes downright hilarious for L, C, D, and M. The joyful, squealing menagerie continues from page to page, adding and dropping companions in a numeric frenzy. The searches become more challenging as the book progresses, prompting readers to find (in addition to XXXVII pigs) XIX trees or XXVIII fence posts. There is plenty of visual detail for early-elementary age children to pore over, and Geisert is careful to be methodical and predictable in his examples (though he is appropriately mysterious when it comes to more involved scenes). This book might do for Roman numerals (and for pigs) what Carmen Sandiego did for geography: highlight the spontaneous humor and enjoyment in an unrightfully maligned topic.?Jennifer Fleming, Boston Public Library
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0395745195
• ISBN 13: 9780395745199
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32