Anno's Counting Book Big Book Review
This beautifully illustrated picture book for numbers 0-12 is a delight! Each of the double-page watercolor illustrations depicts a landscape. In the right margin, the featured number appears. In the left margin, there's a column of 10 boxes. The appropriate box for the featured number is colored in.
The book begins with a desolate, snow-covered landscape . The only color is the light blue of a sky and a frozen river. There is not one house, tree, person or farmhouse. Your child will grasp the "nothingness" of zero.
Turn the page for number 1 and 1 appears in the right margin. On the left, box 1 is colored in the ten-box column. Now in the snowy terrain, we see a bridge across the river and one tree, one skier, one snowman, one dog and one farmhouse. Because there's no text on the page, you and your child can make up your own story about the little village, its people, their activities and what they say to each other.
Turn the page to number 2. It's early spring. The snow is melting; fields are turning brown. We now see a church not far from the farmhouse as well as two trucks , two men, two pine trees, two children running. Your child will have fun pointing out all the pairs on the page. For number 3, it's early spring and guess how many canoes are on the river?
The last illustration is number 12. It's Christmastime in the village! Villagers gather in the snow round a Christmas tree as reindeer fly through the sky. Each of the twelve illustrations have chronicled the year. Seasons pass as the little village grows, children play, crops are harvested and the clock on the church steeple marks the hour.
Have your child "read" to you as you turn each page. The little village and its inhabitants provide lots of room for imagination. A gem of a book! Full parent participation is required to make the village come to life. Highly recommended!
Anno's Counting Book Big Book Overview
First there is an empty field. The it is January, the first month of the year. All alone in the snow stands 1 yellow house. In front, 1 child builds a snowman. Behind the house is 1 tree and 1 black cow. Now, five months later, it is June. There are 6 buildings in the field, 6 children playing, and 6 adults working. One adult tends 6 ducks. Another drives a trains with 6 cars. From 1 to 12, through the months of the year, the town grows. More houses and trees and animals and people can be seen until December arrives with all it's magic.
Anno's Counting Book Big Book Specifications
What kind of a counting book is this? On the first page all we see is a barren winter landscape--a hazy, blue sky above a hazy, white hill. Nothing to count here. But wait, this is zero! On the next page the scene brightens: one tree, one bird, one house. Turn the page again and the snow has started to melt--we find two buildings, two trucks, two trees, two children, two dogs, and two adults. Suddenly there is almost more than we can count on each page! The objects in the beautiful watercolor pictures correspond with each consecutive number, and in addition (so to speak), the number of items on the page increases exponentially.
Mitsumasa Anno, author and illustrator of the award-winning Anno's Journey, has crafted a lovely medium to help kids learn to count. His love for numbers is reflected in the symmetry of every page, as well as his respect for the mathematical relationships that occur all around us. What kind of a counting book is this? The graceful, intelligent, engaging kind. (Ages 4 to 8)
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