From the Garden: A Counting Book About Growing Food

by Michael Dahl, Todd Ouren (Illustrator)

Overview

Pea pods, cucumbers, and strawberries provide plenty of opportunities for counting in the garden! Follow Dad, Grandma, and other family members as they pick and count. Hidden numbers on every page give readers an opportunity to search and learn.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781404811164
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2004
Series:	Know Your Numbers
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	237,479
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.12(d)
Lexile:	AD390L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

Michael Dahl is the prolific author of the bestselling Goodnight, Baseball picture book and more than 200 other books for children and young adults. He has won the AEP Distinguished Achievement Award three times for his nonfiction, a Teacher’s Choice award from Learning magazine, and a Seal of Excellence from the Creative Child Awards. Dahl currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Editorial Reviews

These Know Your Numbers titles are a pleasant departure from the cartoonish artwork and uninspiring design exhibited by many picture books in series. They feature inviting, bright illustrations that are digitally rendered but give the impression of textured cut-paper and they liven up a potentially dry topic – counting – with enticing real-world situations: building a skyscraper, harvesting vegetables to make tossed salad for dinner. Though both books are well done, (One Big Building) perhaps shines brightest. Little ones will find Ouren's bustling workers and vehicles in bold primary colors mesmerizing and they'll love counting all 12 stories of the finished building, so tall that the horizontally formatted book must be rotated 90 degrees to accommodate a picture of it. Sidebars depict each number in three different ways — as a word, a digit, and a series of dots — and the numerals hidden somewhere on each spread will keep children engaged.

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