One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab: A Counting by Feet Book
by April Pulley Sayre (Author) Randy Cecil (Illustrator)
The buggy-eyed insects, crabs, and snails provide an appealing cast of characters who stand up to be counted against a summertime palette of orange sand and blue skies. -- Kirkus Reviews If one is a snail and two is a person, we must be counting by feet! Just follow the sign to the beach, where a bunch of fun-loving crabs, lounging dogs, gleeful insects, and bewildered-looking snails obligingly offer their feet for counting in a number of silly, surprising combinations -- from one to one hundred!
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Seeing patterns and different ways of calculation are standard concepts of mathematical reasoning, but there is nothing standard about this creative counting book . . . The buggy-eyed insects, crabs, and snails provide an appealing cast of characters who stand up to be counted against a summertime palette of orange sand and blue skies.
—Kirkus Reviews This husband-and-wife team (HUMMINGBIRDS: THE SUN CATCHERS) puts a beach community's best feet forward and simultaneously explores the myriad ways that numbers can combine.
—Publishers Weekly Quite simply, this provides little arithmeticians with something they'll actually get a kick out of counting. . . . All groupings are arranged for easy enumeration by kids not quite ready to make the leap to intuitive multiplication.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)
—Kirkus Reviews This husband-and-wife team (HUMMINGBIRDS: THE SUN CATCHERS) puts a beach community's best feet forward and simultaneously explores the myriad ways that numbers can combine.
—Publishers Weekly Quite simply, this provides little arithmeticians with something they'll actually get a kick out of counting. . . . All groupings are arranged for easy enumeration by kids not quite ready to make the leap to intuitive multiplication.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)
April Pulley Sayre
April Pulley Sayre was from Greenville, South Carolina and grew up endlessly fascinated by the natural world. She was the award-winning author of more than eighty books for young readers, including Woodpecker Wham! and Eat Like a Bear.
Jeff Sayre is an ecologist, entrepreneur, and author with a passion for conservation and natural history. He and April have collaborated on twelve books together, all oriented around their shared love for nature and ecology. Juliet Menéndez is a Guatemalan American author and illustrator living between Guatemala City, Paris, and New York. While working as a bilingual teacher in New York City's public schools, Juliet noted the need for more books that depicted children like the ones in her classrooms. She studied design and illustration in Paris and now spends her days with her watercolors and notebook. Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780763626310
Lexile Measure
200
Guided Reading Level
B
Publisher
Candlewick Press (MA)
Publication date
March 20, 2006
Series
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BISAC categories
JNF003000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | General
JNF013030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Concepts | Counting & Numbers
JNF013030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Concepts | Counting & Numbers
Library of Congress categories
Animals
Counting
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