Let's Count

by Tana Hoban, Tana Hoban (Illustrator)

Overview

Over twenty-five years ago Tana Hoban stunned the children's book world with her innovative black-and-white photographs in Count and See.

Now she returns to the subject, and her glorious full-color pictures add a new dimension to the excitement and fun of counting when numbers are still fresh and something to be mastered.

From one to one hundred — Let's Count!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780688160081
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/30/1999
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	1,098,409
Product dimensions:	11.25(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Tana Hoban's (1917–2006) photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and in galleries around the world. She has won many gold medals and prizes for her work as a photographer and filmmaker. Her books for children are known and loved internationally. 

Tana Hoban's (1917–2006) photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and in galleries around the world. She has won many gold medals and prizes for her work as a photographer and filmmaker. Her books for children are known and loved internationally. 

Editorial Reviews

Many of the objects pictured here are familiar, such as toilet paper rolls, crushed soda cans, and storage boxes. But the photos bring out objects' everyday beauty. They capture everything from 1 red-combed rooster to 15 candy apples, then jump by 5s and 10s up to 100 spools of thread. Not only will this book help your child to master her numbers, it will also inspire to savor the simple things in her world.

Sesame Street Parents

PreS-Gr 2 Hoban has been looking through her camera's viewfinder for years, capturing in crisp black-and-white and vivid color photos everyday objects from new, innovative perspectives. Color, textures, sizes, opposites, and other ideas have flowed through her darkroom to create clear impressions. Here, she returns to numbers, inviting children to master counting from 1 to 15, and then, after jumping to 20, to leapfrog by 10s to 100. Each double-page spread is paired on the left by a huge yellow numeral, the word for the number in white uppercase, and row(s) of large white dots for reinforcement. On the right, is a stellar photo, framed in crisp white, of a corresponding accumulation of interesting objects, ranging from utilitarian rolls of paper towels to svelte mannequin heads modeling hats and sunglasses to a rainbow of colorful thread spools. A deep oceanic ultramarine provides a perfect background for photos, dots, numerals, and letters alike. Eye-catching and enjoyable from its front cover to its final page, and sure to be both as useful and used as its many predecessors. Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

School Library Journal

One fat chicken, five smashed cans, twelve rolls of bathroom tissue . With these quirky, lovely photos, your toddler will get number savvy as easy as pi.

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