The M and M's Brand Counting Book - Hardcover

McGrath, Barbara Barbieri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881068543 ISBN 13: 9780881068542

Publisher: Charlesbridge Pub Inc, 1995

Synopsis

"M&M's" chocolate candies are used to introduce children to the numbers 1 through 12, colors, and primary shapes

About this title

About the Author:

After many years as a teacher and freelance writer, Barbara Barbieri McGrath is now a full-time author of children's books. She lives in Natick, Massachusetts, with her husband and their two children.

From Publishers Weekly:

This insignificant addition to the crowded shelves of counting books encourages children to use M&M candies--in specific color configurations--to practice counting from one to 12, and then to form the various sets of 12 (six groups of two; three groups of four, etc.) as well as the shapes of a square, circle and triangle. From its opening lines ("Pour out the candies. Get ready, get set. / This counting book is the tastiest yet!"), the rhymed text is rather banal, and the art--which consists entirely of depictions of these small round candies--is limited and monotonous. Finally, the book ends with a lesson in subtraction, in which youngsters are encouraged to eat the pieces, color by color, until none remains. Perhaps the sugar will give them a kick; unfortunately, this slim book doesn't offer much food for thought. Ages 3-8.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Charlesbridge Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0881068543
• ISBN 13: 9780881068542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32