The Crayon Counting Book

by Pam Muñoz Ryan, Jerry Pallotta, Frank Mazzola Jr. (Illustrator)

Overview

Crayons aren't just for coloring anymore!

This colorful rhyme teaches counting by twos–two different ways. First, use the even numbers to count up to 24. Then start over with the odd numbers. Along the way you'll learn unusual colors, like iguana and fiddlehead. Do any of them sound familiar? They should! They come from the pages of Jerry Pallotta's alphabet books.

Counting has never been more fun or colorful!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780881069532
Publisher:	Charlesbridge
Publication date:	07/01/1996
Series:	Jerry Pallotta's Counting Books Series
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	706,056
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.11(d)
Lexile:	AD590L (what's this?)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Pam Muñoz Ryan is a native of California. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees at San Diego State University and she worked as a bilingual teacher and an early childhood administrator before dedicating herself full-time to writing. She wrote her first book at the age of 32 at the encouragement of a friend. She has written many picture books for young children and novels for older students. Pam lives in California with her husband and four children. She often speaks at schools and conferences about writing and literacy. Jerry Pallotta is an award-winning author of children's alphabet books and imaginative fiction. His books combine interesting facts, detailed research, humor, and realistic illustrations that mesmerize children everywhere.

Read an Excerpt

Let's begin counting! Take a careful look at the colorful crayons in this book! Here's an empty box of exactly none. There are zero inside, instead of some.

(Continues…)

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Editorial Reviews

In a high-tech approach to a low-tech subject, computer-generated crayons strike different poses on each page of this surprisingly animated counting book. The crayons appear in rows, pyramids and pairs do-si-do-ing in a line; they stand on their heads and lie in piles. The rhyming text counts by twos, first by even numbers ("A set of twins joins the color scheme,/ which brings the count to precisely sixteen"), then by odds ("Seventeen pastels, delicate and light/ Nineteen hotshots, bold and bright"). While the reader is ostensibly counting crayons from a box of 24, she must suspend disbelief: obviously there would not be 11 greens (with names like "iguana," "wasabi" and "emerald tree boa"), much less 15 blues, within a particular assortment. It's a slight book, but a colorful one. Ages 3-8. (Aug.)

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