SCIENCE
Strauss, Linda Leopold

Numbers Everywhere

(3) PS Illustrated by Sara Infante. "An eight is two circles, / One high and one low-- / Like the jolly fat fellow / You build out of snow." Rhyming quatrains describe the shape of each number and relate it to images in the mixed-media illustrations, whose casually diverse cast of dynamically exaggerated adult and child figures picnic, bike, whale watch, and go trick-or-treating in a vibrant retro palette. Subtle dotted lines tracing the number shapes are repeated in the "How many numbers can you spy?" seek-and-find at book's end. A final spread uses images from the illustrations as counters to show zero to nine in this preschool-appropriate number- and counting-palooza.

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