Overview
Count on fun! Three little boys building with blocks/Four little girls wearing odd socksÖJoin the gang as one, two, three, four, and more real kids drive cars that are red, sleep in a bed, eat from a bowl, dance 'round a poleÖKim Golding's distinctive photo collage art and funny, bouncy text make this counting book the perfect companion to her previous title, the best-selling Alphababies. Highlighted by an exciting find-the-numbers game, Counting Kids is the one counting book to have when you're counting up to ten!Author Biography: Kim Golding is a graphic artist who creates her art using photographs and computers. Her first book was Alphababies, also published by DK Ink. She lives in Los Angeles.
Rhyming text and photographs of children present the numbers from one to ten, with each photograph containing the quantity of the numeral being represented.
Synopsis
Count on fun! Three little boys building with blocks/Four little girls wearing odd socksÖJoin the gang as one, two, three, four, and more real kids drive cars that are red, sleep in a bed, eat from a bowl, dance 'round a poleÖKim Golding's distinctive photo collage art and funny, bouncy text make this counting book the perfect companion to her previous title, the best-selling Alphababies. Highlighted by an exciting find-the-numbers game, Counting Kids is the one counting book to have when you're counting up to ten!
Author Biography: Kim Golding is a graphic artist who creates her art using photographs and computers. Her first book was Alphababies, also published by DK Ink. She lives in Los Angeles.
School Library Journal
PreS-K-Bright, clean pages with lots of color give this otherwise disappointing counting book an appealing look. On the left side of each spread is a number framed in a colorful border, and on the right is a photo-collage of that number of children. Hidden in each picture are Arabic numerals for youngsters to find ("Seven 7s or one 1"). A slim poem at the beginning of the book advises readers to "Seek them all and have some fun./When you've read from one to ten,/Close the book and start again." The bright photographs depict smiling children superimposed upon computer-generated, cartoonlike backgrounds, placing them into odd little scenes (nine kids sharing one huge bowl of soup). Spreads alternately show boys and girls, though the boys drive a VW, build, and eat while the girls wear bows, pose in flower pots, and sleep. Unfortunately, the slick graphics and static photos lose their charm after one or two readings.-Linda Beck, Indian Valley Public Library, Telford, PA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|