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Zaslavsky, Claudia

Count on Your Fingers African Style

40 pp. | Black Butterfly | December, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-86316-250-9 $$15.95
1980, Harper
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Wangechi Mutu. On market day in East Africa people who speak different languages communicate about buying and selling by using their fingers to represent numbers. This new edition is a large, square picture book with full-color illustrations. Although there is interesting information in the text, the detail-rich prose is a bit dry and the illustrations fail to draw the reader into the material. The book is more useful than attractive.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

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