The Coin Counting Book [Hardcover]

Rozanne Lanczak Williams (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up

Children will enjoy counting and adding while learning the names and denominations of all of the U.S. coins. What do you get when you add five pennies together? What coin combinations add up to a quarter?

A bold design encourages play with actual coins while reading the book.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 1-3-Simple rhymes and large, clear photographs instruct children in coin denominations, grouping, and counting. The text begins with an introduction to pennies and soon adds nickels and dimes, quarters, and half dollars to show how larger denominations take form. Coins are arranged in sets with visual equations illustrating their mathematical equivalents. By the book's end, children are asked to think of the many ways a dollar is made (100 pennies, 4 quarters, etc.). Both teachers and parents will find this book valuable as an introductory lesson on money.
Ilene Abramson, Los Angeles Public Library
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Ages 4-8. Counting coins in rhymes makes this introductory concept book fun as well as instructive. A former elementary school teacher, Williams identifies and counts coinage and presents equivalent values with jingles that encourage youngsters to chime in and add up the answers. Uncluttered photographs display how 5 pennies add up to a nickel, and how five groups of 5 pennies can be traded for a quarter. Counted by 10s, 100 pennies add up to a dollar, as do 20 nickels, 10 dimes, etc. Concluding with a picture of coins being dropped into a piggy bank, with some set aside to be spent, this valuable teaching tool can easily lead into lessons on what these coins can buy. Ellen Mandel
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing (February 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881063258
• ISBN-13: 978-0881063257
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 11.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #458,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #47 in Books > Children's Books > Social Situations > Money

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good relation, poor reasoning, May 2, 2008

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D. Melvin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Coin Counting Book (Hardcover)

My daughter is in Kindergarten and is working on addition and subtraction in her class. I bought this book as a supplement because she loves money, especially since our family instituted a $.25 bad word "game." In my opinion this book does a good job of tieing the different money types together, i.e. 5 pennies can be 1 nickel. What it doesn't do, and this may just be my preference, is to force the reader to identify amounts outside of .25, .50, and 1.00 denominations (with varying degrees of course.)

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Young Bankers in the Making, March 18, 2007

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B. Voss (Seymour, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Coin Counting Book (Paperback)

Two of our children adopted from China and Russia were having a hard time learning how to count money, and were not understanding the concepts. This coin book is big, easy to handle, colorful and was very helpful to them. I would recommend it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful resource, May 18, 2009

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T. Christie (Bloomington, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Coin Counting Book (Paperback)

My daughter enjoyed this book and although she has outgrown it, holds into it "as a resource." It is a good visual for learning about money-Great for when your child wants to learn more about money, but may still stick actual money in his/her mouth!