I Know Numbers!
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
How do we love numbers? Let us count the ways: They're on street signs and bus stops, featured on phones, thermometers, chalkboards, and scales. They show the time and the date, and help us to measure distance, sizing, and so much more. This spirited picture book by beloved author-illustrator Taro Gomi will charm and inform the youngest of readers, offering them a unique—and useful—look at a key concept we count on. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which looks almost identical to the print edition.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This cheerful picture book is less about counting and more about exploring the concept of numbers and the many ways they are used, from telling time to keeping score and creating home addresses so mail gets to the right place. Though numbers themselves don't really change, some things have since this book was first published in Japan in 1985: "These numbers are used to call someone," writes Gomi as a woman punches digits on a corded telephone; nearby, an elderly man pushes the number 4 on the front of a TV set to change the channel. But dated technology doesn't detract from this book's charm in the slightest: the text, while direct, is infectiously enthusiastic, and Gomi's characteristically vivid images clearly illustrate just how multifaceted numbers are. Ages 3 5.
