Swan Harbor: A Nature Counting Book - Hardcover

Rankin, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803725612 ISBN 13: 9780803725614

Publisher: Dial, 2003

Synopsis

Simple text and color pictures present the numbers from one through twenty as it follows nature through the four seasons of Swan Harbor.

About this title

About the Author:

Laura Rankin is the creator of the award-winning The Handmade Alphabet.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 2-In a preface, Rankin invites readers to tour the Maine coast, her home. From sea roses to sandpipers and lobsters, she provides 20 countable plants and animals that almost come to life. A large, legible white numeral is placed at the bottom of each picture; the only text is a word on the border identifying the featured fauna or flora, leaving the acrylic ink-and-paint illustrations to thrive without competition. The subjects of the paintings have a beloved aspect yet lack sentimentality, and perspective and sensibility are reminiscent of the author/illustrator's The Handmade Alphabet (Dial, 1991). Each picture includes a detail that hints at what is to come on the following page, an increasingly common convention in picture books that feels fresh here. A closing spread of a harbor landscape encompasses all of the previously featured living things, and is followed by two pages of "Intriguing Nature Facts" about them. (Who knew eastern cottontail rabbits can leap 10 to 15 feet?) An effective concept book, Swan Harbor is even better as a clean, strong portrait of the coastal Maine environment.
Liza Graybill, Worcester Public Library, MA
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dial
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0803725612
• ISBN 13: 9780803725614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Rankin Laura