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Synopsis
Introduces the numbers from one to twelve using the animals, acrobats, and clowns at the circus
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From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 3-- "In the first circus ring, my sister saw with me a daredevil on a high wire." This clever variation on "The Twelve Days of Christmas" shows succeeding circus rings with more elephants, monkeys, clowns, and jugglers, up to the climactic page crowded with 12 animals laughing, 11 horseback riders, 10 leapers leaping, etc. Turn the page, and this simple picture book becomes a counting book ("How many people and animals are there in the entire circus?"); turn the page again, and Chwast introduces the interesting number patterns and mathemetical puzzles to be found in this cumulative rhyme. Although his pastel palette and flat blocks of black-outlined shapes give a static effect to even the most frenzied scenes, this technique allows the ever-accumulating details to be easily distinguished. Children will enjoy the varied characters in each new audience found along the bottom of the double-page spreads, and the antics of the clowns and monkeys are sure to please. Like Rodney Peppe's simpler Circus Numbers (Delacorte, 1985), this will work well in preschool story time, but will also find an audience with older children who enjoy mathemetical puzzles such as Each Orange Had Eight Slices (Greenwillow, 1992) or The King's Chessboard (Dial, 1988). --Caroline Parr, Central Rappahannock Regional Library, Fredericksburg, VA
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From Kirkus Reviews
The graphic designer who created The Alphabet Parade (1991) returns with an even more ebullient counting book patterned on ``The Twelve Days of Christmas'': ``In the fifth circus ring, my sister saw with me five dogs a-barking, four aerialists zooming, three monkeys playing, two elephants, and a daredevil on a high wire''--and so on, each spread exhibiting, for each of the numerals, new acts and performers, all of whom the reader is challenged to add up, variously, at the end. Meanwhile, the boy and girl appear at the bottom of each spread, along with a changing audience; and the seat numbers (101-110; 201-210; etc.) are something else to ponder. Chwast orchestrates the growing, wildly active crowd with humor, variety, and the skill of a ringmaster, setting his stylized, brightly colored figures against a mellow blue. Ingeniously constructed and designed with panache: a delightful addition to the genre. (Picture book. 3-9) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherDemco Media
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0606110100
- ISBN 13 9780606110105
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages1
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