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annabannana's review against another edition
3.0
Ha ha, I guess when we read this before I was not impressed - only gave it a 2. Must've been a long time ago. Strange thing is that with my son well past learning to count, he is actually more interested in this book and I think it deserves a higher rating now.
lattelibrarian's review against another edition
5.0
This book was assigned as an "illumination book" for our structuralist unit in a critical theories class. When I opened it up, I thought it looked vaguely familiar and didn't fully recognize it until I got to the 6 spread. Then, I realized that this is the same book that my mother uses in her kindergarten classroom to show her students what numbers look like both in arabic numerals as well as in quantities. Clearly, this book is a family favorite.
Overall, I love the art, the structure, and the way that it shows the passage of time as the town is constructed through the year.
But after doing our structuralist unit...oh man, this book is a wild ride. Most counting books start at 1 and then go up to 10...yet here this book is going from 0 to 12!!! And the way that time is described in this book is pretty interesting--clearly it goes from month to month, but the time on the church also depicts the designated number (but the time goes from afternoon to morning at around page 7, I believe--so then what do we make of that visualization of time passing?) Obviously, this kind of analysis is a bit overworked, but it's still interesting nonetheless that such a "simple" picturebook/counting book can create such a dialogue around it.
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Overall, I love the art, the structure, and the way that it shows the passage of time as the town is constructed through the year.
But after doing our structuralist unit...oh man, this book is a wild ride. Most counting books start at 1 and then go up to 10...yet here this book is going from 0 to 12!!! And the way that time is described in this book is pretty interesting--clearly it goes from month to month, but the time on the church also depicts the designated number (but the time goes from afternoon to morning at around page 7, I believe--so then what do we make of that visualization of time passing?) Obviously, this kind of analysis is a bit overworked, but it's still interesting nonetheless that such a "simple" picturebook/counting book can create such a dialogue around it.
Review cross-listed here!
sducharme's review against another edition
5.0
Anno's approach to numbers is simple but brilliant. Each double page shows a scene in the countryside with items in the scene that match the number tile on the page. We have the numerical symbol, a cube, and the items in the picture - three ways to understand the number. When we get past 10, the cubes befin a new stack alongside to match with our teaching of "tens". This is a classic that does not dumb down like other counting books may, instead giving the child leeway to draw his or her own conclusions.
votrikhon's review against another edition
3.0
Without text but all illustrated pictures about things with exactly the number to count through each page.
aprilthelibrarian's review against another edition
5.0
This is an oldie but a goodie! I love the artwork and I had fun counting the people, houses, pine trees, birds, etc in each page. The counting goes from 0-12 and correlates with the 12 months.
littlebookjockey's review against another edition
4.0
I like how this is more difficult than your standard counting book. It takes into account the actual things that we count in daily life and puts them into different groups to count separately.
allen_h's review against another edition
4.0
This would be great for kindergartners (or younger students) first learning about numbers and how they represent quantities.
tvancort's review against another edition
4.0
This is really lovely. Elegant, even. I hope kiddo falls in love with it so I can upgrade the rating to 5 stars.
sunflowerx's review against another edition
2.0
Mitsumasa Anno’s, Anno’s Counting Book, is full of gorgeous illustrations. Aside from the numbers present on each page, there is no text. I feel like it could benefit from the addition of words because children love being read to. Because of the lack of words this book would only work in small settings, like if you were working with 1-3 children. As the book goes on the illustrations have a certain amount of items to represent the large number shown (1-12). Smaller groups of children would be able to quickly pick out how many of each object is present on each page, but this would be hard to do with a larger group. Even though I feel like this book would be better with text, I do appreciate Anno’s attention to detail. The counting blocks on the left side of each page spread is a smart touch. Children could easily point this out and recognize the manipulatives as something they use during math lessons.
velveteen67's review
4.0
Beautiful counting book that is wordless. The author has many other wordless books. For those looking for wordless picture books.
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