Tomo: Adventures in Counting

by Trevor Lai, Trevor Lai (Illustrator)

Overview

Perfect for little adventurers! Your little one can count to 10 while exploring Tomo’s island home, from wild life, to Tomo’s own inventions, to stars in the sky.

Tomo: Adventures in Counting is a perfect fit for babies and toddlers building early counting skills!

Don’t miss Trevor Lai’s Tomo and His Animal Friends and his picture books Tomo Explores the World and Tomo Takes Flight.

An Imprint Book

Praise for Tomo Explores the World:

“Sure to spark wonder and imagination in young readers…will likely be a hit with young innovators and explorers.” —School Library Journal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250312983
Publisher:	Imprint
Publication date:	04/17/2018
Series:	Tomo's Adventure Series
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	12
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Trevor Lai is an author, artist and CEO/creative director of UP Studios, which was named by Animation Magazine as one of the Top 25 Animation Companies in the world to watch. When Trevor is speaking at events around the world, he loves exploring museums and nature for more inspiration.

He is the author and illustrator of Tomo Explores the World, Tomo Takes Flight, Tomo and His Animal Friends, Tomo: Adventures in Counting (Imprint), and Piggy (Bloomsbury).

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Tomo Explores the World:

“Sure to spark wonder and imagination in young readers…will likely be a hit with young innovators and explorers.” —School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2018-06-17
Lai uses a simple counting book to introduce the board-book set to the picture-book adventurer met previously in Tomo Explores the World (2016) and Tomo Takes Flight (2017).After a promising start—"1 bright day on Half-Moon Bay / 2 best friends go on their way"—the story becomes just a list of what the friends see ("3 big bears," "4 funny frogs") rather than an artful incorporation of counting into the plot. Though Half Moon Bay is an actual place in Northern California, the animals featured in this story seem to have been chosen at random; polar bears don't live there. Similarly, Tomo and his friend are not anchored in a particular place or ethnicity. They are shown in a hot air balloon, wearing furred parkas in a boat, and on an island dock. Both are black-haired with pink skin. Latinx? Asian? Indigenous? It's impossible to know. Except when the girl friend looks horrified at the sight of jellyfish, they are always smiling, often with tongues visible. In companion title Tomo and His Animal Friends the girl is given a name, Maya. It features the same bland digital art and suffers from the same weaknesses.Constructed with extra thick pages, the book probably won't wear out quickly, but that doesn't justify its purchase. Toddlers deserve better. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews