Numbers Everywhere

by Linda Leopold Strauss, Sara Infante (Illustrator)

Overview

Search for hidden numeral shapes in this fun, rhyming picture book— a perfect way to engage preschoolers learning numbers!

Number shapes are everywhere— look up! Look down! Look here! Look there.

Rhymes invite children to look for numerals hidden in the pictures:

A tall straight line is number one.
A rocket headed towards the sun!


Colorful illustrations of imaginative scenes hide the shapes of numbers
1 through 9. Dotted lines trace out these numeral shapes to help young readers find and recognize numbers, while charming rhyming text helps teach kids how to write numbers on their own.

This important pre-math skill becomes a fun seek-and-find game, and the rhythmic, rhyming text is fun to read aloud. Your young reader will learn to love to count!

A Mathical Honor Book
A Poets.org Featured Fall Book for Young Readers

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823443215
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	06/22/2021
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.27(h) x 0.32(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Linda Leopold Strauss is the author of two books for Holiday House, A Fairy Called Hilary and The Elijah Door. She lives in Wyoming, Ohio with her husband in a tall, skinny house with three doors.

Sara Infante is an award-winning illustrator in her native country of Portugal. Her first book for Holiday House was Get Me Out of This Book!: Rules and Tools for Being Brave by Kalli Dakos and Deborah Cholette. She lives in Lisbon with her husband and children.

Editorial Reviews

"[A] preschool-appropriate number- and counting-palooza."—The Horn Book

"A frolicsome picture book that familiarizes kids with the shapes of numerals, making them easier to recognize and, with practice, to write."—Booklist

"Not your typical number book. . . ."—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

10/08/2021

PreS-K—An early childhood book of number shapes. Children learning to write numbers may benefit from this differentiated approach. Not your typical number book, this will help some learners spot number shapes in a variety of scenes. For each digit, a short rhyme is paired with an illustration that has a dashed number overlaid. Some of these figurations (2 is a swan on a pond, 7 is a street lamp) are far more intuitive and extendable than others (5 is a bike, 9 is a half-eaten pretzel). The book is illustrated with vivid colors on crisp white backgrounds. The final pages include an illustrated spread and a challenge to spot number-like shapes in the art. White-, brown-, and tanned-skin children and adults are found throughout, although characters that appear white are in the majority. VERDICT A good addition to a preschool math collection that also includes other strategies for identifying and writing numbers.—Mallory Weber, Convent of the Sacred Heart, NY

School Library Journal

2021-04-14
Four-line poems introduce the numbers zero to nine opposite stylized, colorful mixed-media illustrations that incorporate them.

The relevant numeral is printed clearly over each poem and worked into the pictures, with dotted blue lines to help readers find them. This device sometimes works against itself. For example, the poem headed “3” reads: “Curve out and back in— / Do it once, then repeat: / A three is red pepper / On pizza. Let’s eat!” The poem is inviting, but the red pepper 3’s on the pizza slices opposite are obscured by the dotted blue lines superimposed on them. There are also three people to count and three tuning pegs on the banjo one kid plays. Those elements of the illustration are clear enough, but locating the numeral can be hard. Most pictures share this difficulty, although some, like the two balls of the snowman representing 8, are easier to spot. (Eight children play around the snowman, and there are eight pieces of coal marking its features.) The pictures include people with varying skin tones. In acknowledgment of the difficulty of the concept, a concluding double-page spread with number shapes incorporated into the composition is followed by an identical spread with the number shapes circled for readers to confirm their guesses. The rear endpapers offer each numeral with a corresponding number of thumbnails from the appropriate earlier spread for extra practice.

Hard-to-find numbers make this counting book one to skip. (Picture book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews