Count Your Way Through Rus [Paperback]

James Haskins (Author), Jim Haskins (Author), Vera Mednikov (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1987 | Age Level: 9 and up | Series: Count Your Way

Presents the numbers one through ten in Russian, using each number to introduce concepts about the Soviet Union and Russian culture.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 24 pages
• Publisher: Lerner Classroom (January 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876144881
• ISBN-13: 978-0876144886
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.5 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,184,066 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars pyhat stars, September 11, 2000

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jennifer (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Count Your Way Through Rus (Paperback)

I purchased this book for my son and liked it so much I purchased chihteereh more, for other friends whom children are from Russia as well. An informational, introduction to 1-2-3's in russian.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book contains a factual error in its first sentence!, January 22, 2002

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"nycjill" (Bronx, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Count Your Way Through Rus (Paperback)

I think Jim Haskins had a cute idea and was more interested in making a quick buck than in getting the facts right.

The first page of the Russian counting book contains a glaring factual error: There is NOT only one Kremlin in Russia. In addition to the one in Moscow, there is a white brick kremlin in the Tatar capital, (cf http://www.kcn.ru/tat_en/kazan/kazkreml.html); Kremlins were very common in the 8-15th centuries throughout Russia, and were usually built of wood. The Moscow and Kazan' kremlins have survived b/c they are stone. There may be others; I am not an expert...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cute!, May 17, 2007

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Amy Graham (Scottsdale, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Count Your Way Through Rus (Paperback)

Count Your Way Through Russia is a cute look at how to count from one to ten in Russian that also imparts little bits of knowledge about Russia and its people. Each number is given its numeric symbol, the word for the number in Russian and a pronunciation guide. Additionally, there is about a paragraph on each page...the book tells us there is one Kremlin, you need two snow shoes in winter, that you need five people to dance the Preplyas (pare-ush-plee-us) and so on. Unfortunately the book also has a few errors. There is an introductory blurb explaining that Russia is one of 15 republics that make up the U.S.S.R., which is no longer true. This may have been corrected in later printings, but it's still in the copy I got from my local library. Additionally, the first page, for number one...there isn't one ONLY Kremlin, there are two. The second being a white brick structure located in the Tartar capital and really, at one time the Kremlin's were quite common, but made out of wood, so many no longer exist today. I could only see my way to giving this book 3 stars because of the errors, though the first may simply be due to an out of date printing of the book. Overall, it's a cute way to introduce numbers in another language, because you get the numbers AND a wealth of information about the country and it's culture to go along with the numbers!