Numbers (My Very First Look At) - Hardcover

Gunzi, Christiane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1587282372 ISBN 13: 9781587282379

Publisher: Cooper Square Publishing Llc, 2001

Synopsis

Simple text and illustrations introduce children to number concepts and teach them how to identify numbers.

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PreSchool-Jaunty photographs of everyday items from sneakers to candy set double-page scenes for discussion in these two concept books. In Numbers, children are asked to identify the objects on a page and then asked a question about them, e.g., "two shoes/What color are your shoes?" Unfortunately, the queries may confuse. A page on which youngsters are asked to "point to the orange ball" shows a basketball and a beach ball that has an orange section. This book also asks, "Which is your favorite" three times, as if the author ran out of questions. In the busy Sizes book, Gunzi challenges youngsters to differentiate between thick and thin, long and short, as well as the typical big and small. Visual misconceptions appear when looking at "same" and "different." The pictured items appear approximately the same size on the page, but in reality are greatly diverse-which is the child to address? These books fail in their execution.
Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Vivid colors, bold design and crisp photography combine in Christiane Gunzi's My Very First Look at Numbers, photographed by Steve Gorton. Focusing on numbers 1-10, then up to 50 in increments of 10. The opening spread shows a photograph of "one teddy bear" set against a hot pink background with the numeral "1" in yellow. Below, black print on a deep blue band asks, "What color is teddy's ribbon?" In a final spread of 100 beads, the text asks youngsters to find the yellow beads and striped beads. Simultaneously published in hardcover and soft, other titles in My Very First Look At series include: Colors, Sizes and Shapes.

Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Reviewed with other titles in the My Very First Look series.

Ages 1-5. Bold and pleasing in design, books in the My Very First Look series offer very young children a chance to name familiar objects and older ones an opportunity to learn basic concepts or words that identify the items pictured. On each page, colorful photographs of objects appear, clearly defined against a white background. Colors, with about a dozen different things on each spread, features all the usual suspects, as well as pink, brown, white, black, silver, and gold. Most objects, such as grapes and boots, are readily identifiable, while others, such as shrimp (looking rather orange on the "pink" page) and crystal, will stump most preschoolers. The design of Numbers helps make counting easier through the clarity of its photos and the grouping of objects. There's a bit of crossover among the concepts in the books, but off-topic questions (such as in Colors, "How many apricots can you see?" and "Can you count the round things?") extend the text. The books on sizes and shapes carry out the visually dynamic format. Carolyn Phelan
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Edition details

• Publisher: Cooper Square Publishing Llc
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587282372
• ISBN 13: 9781587282379
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 50