1 Cookie, 2 Chairs, 3 Pears: Numbers Everywhere (Jane Brocket's Clever Concepts)

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Five toes, twelve cupcakes, nineteen puzzle pieces―numbers are all around us. How many numbers can you count in the pages of this book?

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About the Author:

Jane Brocket is the author of The Gentle Art of Domesticity (2007) and The Gentle Art of Quiltmaking (2010) and of two books based on the wonderful things characters eat and do in classic children’s books: Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer (2008) and Ripping Things to Do (2009)―a selection of the pieces in these two books has been collected into one volume for the US as Turkish Delight and Treasure Hunts (Perigee, 2010). She is currently writing a series of four Clever Concepts books for Millbrook Press. She has a knitting book to be published in 2011 and two more craft books in the pipeline.

Jane enjoys knitting, quilting, sewing, baking, growing flowers, and taking photographs of the things she makes as well as details of the world around her. She loves color, pattern, texture, shapes, and objects. And, above all, she love books and reading.



Jane Brocket is the author of The Gentle Art of Domesticity (2007) and The Gentle Art of Quiltmaking (2010) and of two books based on the wonderful things characters eat and do in classic children’s books: Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer (2008) and Ripping Things to Do (2009)―a selection of the pieces in these two books has been collected into one volume for the US as Turkish Delight and Treasure Hunts (Perigee, 2010). She is currently writing a series of four Clever Concepts books for Millbrook Press. She has a knitting book to be published in 2011 and two more craft books in the pipeline.

Jane enjoys knitting, quilting, sewing, baking, growing flowers, and taking photographs of the things she makes as well as details of the world around her. She loves color, pattern, texture, shapes, and objects. And, above all, she love books and reading.

Review:

"Brocket continues her Clever Concepts series with this look at numbers from one to 20.

From ordinary objects and shots of the numbers found in the world to cookie cutouts of the numbers and graffiti on a wall, the brightly colored and patterned photographs take center stage. 'We can find four things / that are the same. / Four that are different. / Or two of each.' The photos show a '4' on a door, four identical striped beach chairs, four different-colored triangle pennants on a string and a checkerboard-patterned slice of cake. Clever use of embroidery melds the real and the sewn on some pages. But readers need to have a firm grasp of the slippery concept of numbers-vs.-numerals once they get into the double digits so as to avoid some headaches and confusion. The page devoted to the number 10 also uses number-shaped cookies, so there are actually 11 cookies; Brocket states that 'There are twelve / numbers on the clock'; and, really jarring, the end copyright page includes a picture of the actual cookie cutters from 0 through 8―6 must double as 9. But with an adult to guide children, the pictures should help them parse the distinctions.

Brocket once again presents a pleasingly huge variety of objects, from the mundane to the fantastic and everything in between." ―Kirkus Reviews

(Journal)

"The colorful photographs are the focus of this counting book. 'Nine buttons in neat rows. Let's count the buttons in each row. Nine lines of colorful cookies.' The minimal text is neither rhyming nor clever, but rather matter of fact. The images are attractive, with natural outdoor shots mixed with staged scenes. There are cookies cut into the shape of numbers, 6 flowering pots, 7 egg yolks in a bowl, 13 colorful markers, 15 tulips, and 20 eggs. The book ends with the question, 'If we take them [the eggs] all away, how many are left?' The last page shows an empty egg carton, labeled 'Zero. 0.' This volume will be a useful resource in classrooms as a bright, uncluttered, straightforward exercise in counting." ―School Library Journal

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  • PublisherMillbrook Press ™
  • Publication date2013
  • ISBN 10 1467702323
  • ISBN 13 9781467702324
  • BindingLibrary Binding
  • Number of pages32
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