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Amazing & Incredible Counting Stories!: A Number of Tall Tales by Max Grover
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1995-10-31
- Pages
- 32
- ISBN
- 9780152000905
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Amazing and Incredible Counting Stories! : a Number of Tall Tales
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Genre
- Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction
- Topic
- Business, Careers, Occupations, General, concepts / Counting & Numbers
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In sensational (and highly unlikely) newspaper stories, readers can count giant banjos, carrot icicles, pickle balloons, and jelly faucets. Max Grover's paintings, with their intense color and unexpected juxtapositions, make counting more fun than a car with sixteen wheels on one side "The paintings are wonderously bright, oscillating between campy humor and pure absurdity. A full-blast chuckle machine that doubles, very quietly, as a book about numbers."-Kirkus Reviews
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0152000909
ISBN-13
9780152000905
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71171
Product Key Features
Publication Year
1995
Topic
Business, Careers, Occupations, General, concepts / Counting & Numbers
Book Title
Amazing and Incredible Counting Stories! : a Number of Tall Tales
Language
English
Genre
Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Length
11in.
Item Height
0.4in.
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
Item Width
8.5in.
Additional Product Features
LCCN
94-017837
Intended Audience
Juvenile Audience, Ages 9-12, Ages 4-8, Ages 2-3, under 2 Years
Age Range
4-7
Dewey Decimal
Juv
Grade to
Third Grade
Edition Description
Abridged Edition
Lc Classification Number
Pz7.G93113am 1995
Illustrated by
Grover, MAX
Copyright Date
1995
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
PreSchool-Grade 2 An odd picture book. Numbers 1-25, 50, 75, 100, and millions are introduced in the form of a bizarre headline ("4 Jelly Faucets Prove Big Time-Saver for Kids) above one of Grover's bright acrylic paintings with a "cut line" summarizing the visual moment ("A girl shows how quickly she can make sandwiches using this new device. Now she has more time to spend with her pet alligator.") This stuff is a lot weirder'and sillier'than Dr. Seuss but will surely draw children into counting toasters, carrot slices, inflatable pickles, layers on a birthday cake, shoes, clocks, yardsticks, and acrobatic accordionists. Amazing Stories should produce a few giggles among youngsters, even if teachers are left scratching their heads looking for a punch line. At least the lone skyscraper in the opening scene looks like a "1." There's even a shameless plug for the public library (which should, of course, have a copy of Grover's curious counting book). John Sigwald, Unger Memorial Library, Plainview, TX, Ages 5-8. The counting concept gives Grover some structure for his series of number stories of the wacky, the incongruous, and the bizarre. Primary-grade children know enough about the world to catch the humor, which is just their style, as in the segment about a house that grows "8 carrot icicles" during the winter, prompting its owners to make "iced carrot cake." Each of the 27 stories has a headline and a sentence or two of elaboration, and many of the jokes are subtle enough to be funnier on the second and third readings. Grover's bold acrylics lend plenty of amusing detail and a bright, jazzy feel.
Grade from
Preschool
Illustrated
Yes
Number of Pages
32 Pages
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