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1 Cookie, 2 Chairs, 3 Pears: Numbers Everywhere

by Jane BROCKET
32p. (Jane Brocket's Clever Concepts Series). Millbrook. Oct. 2013. lib. ed. $26.60. ISBN 978-1-4677-0232-4; ebook $19.95. ISBN 978-1-4677-1702-1. LC 2012049689.
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PreS-K—The colorful photographs are the focus of this counting book. "Nine buttons in neat rows. Let's count the buttons in each row. Nine lines of colorful cookies." The minimal text is neither rhyming nor clever, but rather matter of fact. The images are attractive, with natural outdoor shots mixed with staged scenes. There are cookies cut into the shape of numbers, 6 flowering pots, 7 egg yolks in a bowl, 13 colorful markers, 15 tulips, and 20 eggs. The book ends with the question, "If we take them [the eggs] all away, how many are left?" The last page shows an empty egg carton, labeled "Zero. 0." This volume will be a useful resource in classrooms as a bright, uncluttered, straightforward exercise in counting.—Stephanie Farnlacher, Trace Crossings Elementary School, Hoover, AL
Reviewed by Stephanie Farnlacher , Sep 01, 2013

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