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32 pp.
| Greenwillow
| July, 2010
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TradeISBN 978-0-06-185779-9$7.99 New ed. (1986)
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"What can you do with ten black dots?" Crews creatively incorporates the dots into everyday objects while providing readers with the opportunity to learn their numbers. Maintaining all the rhyming text and vibrant illustrations from the 1986 version (itself revised from 1968), this slightly smaller, durable new board book edition is the ideal format for multiple readings.
32 pp.
| Greenwillow
| October, 2009
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TradeISBN 978-0-06-177138-5$16.99
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This Spanish-language version of Ten Black Dots (first published in 1968) is a model example of how a Spanish translation should be done. The text does not try to strain for a literal translation; as a result it reads aloud beautifully and actually makes sense in Spanish. Crews's striking graphics, prominently incorporating bold, black dots into simply composed scenes, remain fresh.
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Translated by M. J. Infante.
In this bilingual edition, Crews's clean design leaves plenty of room for the addition of well-translated Spanish phrases alongside the original English. The result is right on track, with the Spanish text looking as if it were always there.
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This small board book edition retains all the illustrations and text of the original picture book. The book is more appropriate for preschoolers than babies and young toddlers, yet even on this small scale, Crews's detailed but clean and clear art is easy to see.
14 pp.
| HarperFestival
| March, 2001
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TradeISBN 0-688-17087-0$$9.95
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Half of the pages in this board book slide open to reveal the contents of some of the cars in Donald Crews's well-known Freight Train--a load of books and toys in the purple box car, the train crew in the caboose, etc. Unfortunately, the movable parts are not sturdy enough, and board book readers will soon destroy the delicate engineering.
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This oversized, big-experience, you-are-there picture book conveys the excitement and stimulation of a night at an old-fashioned county fair. Each borderless double-page spread bursts with color and light and action and noise as Crews cruises through the fair. A minimal text acts for the most part as captioning or clues us in to what's coming next in this truly spectacular visual experience.