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MacDonald, Suse
4 Reviews
(4)
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"Do you know what I am?" To find the answer, readers turn die-cut pages and combine simple shapes layer by layer until a completed picture is revealed (a brachiosaurus) in a final foldout. Though its design encourages interaction, the book's surprise is undercut by its cover dinosaur image. Endpapers display the colorful variety of shapes used on each page.
Reviewer: Hannah Rodgers Barnaby
(3)
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Brightly colored fish shapes created by die-cuts invite readers to count up from one to ten fish, then flip the book and count back down to one--and then keep counting up and down again. This book's compact size, sturdy pages, and simple text make it an excellent choice for toddlers, who will want to count these fishy friends many times.
Reviewer: Beth L. Meister
(3)
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As a young owl flies from dusk to dawn, she learns to count from one to ten. She spies one prairie dog on a hill, two mice in a field, three ducks flying over a pond, and so on. The feathers on Owl's wings change into the shape of each new number in clever cut-paper illustrations that also contain the numbers within the features of the animals themselves.
Reviewer: Sara Pearce
(3)
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When the elephants' bus breaks down, they try various construction vehicles to get to the circus on time. As time slips by, their weight collapses all but the dump truck, which, with ten minutes to spare, takes them on their way. Pen-and-ink illustrations use intriguing colors and cartoon-style drawing. The text introduces not so much the concept but rather the language of time.
Reviewer: Suzy Schmidt
4 reviews
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