The Adventure of Paz in the Land of Numbers

by Anna-Maria Crum (Illustrator), Miriam Bowden

Overview

Venture into The Land of Numbers with Paz, the curious Koala, who discovers the magical inhabitants of this amazing land. The residents (numbers) are in need of help: they can't get into their proper order. While Paz reorders the numbers, he masters them-in English and Spanish-and your child learns right along with him. Extraordinary illustrations surprise the reader with ingenious representations of the numbers 1 through 10.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780893341503
Publisher:	Green Dragon Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/01/1992
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.07(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

Editorial Reviews

PreS-Gr 1-- Paz, a friendly koala bear, finds his way to a land where all the numbers live. Threes twirl around like helicopters, sixes form petals of flowers, etc. A two confides to Paz that the numbers can't remember who comes first, so Paz organizes them, from one to ten, in English and Spanish. The colored-pencil illustrations are completely lacking in personality or interest, which is entirely understandable, as it is a challenge to make a four look lively. The concept, teaching numbers in Spanish and English, is admirable, but this effort falls very short and very flat. Count Paz out. On the Planet of the Dinosaurs , a witch dinosaur forces the rest of the dino residents to stir cauldrons with their tails, much to the horror of the three ethnically diverse and stereotyped astronauts in a Flash Gordon style rocket. They are powerless to rescue the creatures, but fortunately, the witch's whip gets caught on a passing star and she is pulled into space. The illustrations are heavily outlined, crudely drawn, and of the ilk you'd find in a teenager's math notebook. If dinosaurs weren't already extinct, they'd die of embarrassment. --Christine A. Moesch, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, NY

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