From the Garden: A Counting Book about Growing Food (Know Your Numbers) [Library Binding]

Michael Dahl (Author), Todd Ouren (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2004 | Age Level: 3 and up | Series: Know Your Numbers

Introduces the numbers from one to twelve as family members pick a variety of vegetables from the garden. Readers are invited to find hidden numbers on an illustrated activity page.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Reviwed with Michael Dahl's One Big Building.

PreS-K. These Know Your Numbers titles are a pleasant departure from the cartoonish artwork and uninspiring design exhibited by many picture books in series. They feature inviting, bright illustrations that liven up a potentially dry topic--counting--with enticing, real-world situations: building a skyscraper, harvesting vegetables to make tossed salad for dinner. Though both books are well done, Building, perhaps, shines brightest. Little ones will find Ouren's bustling workers and vehicles in bold primary colors mesmerizing, and they'll love counting all 12 stories of the finished building, so tall that the horizontally formatted book must be rotated 90 degrees to accommodate a picture of it. The inclusion of a glossary, an index, and Web resources seems like overkill for an audience this young, but other extra features are more thoughtfully conceived. Sidebars depict each number in three different ways--as a word, a digit, and a series of dots--and the numerals hidden somewhere on each spread will keep children engaged. Jennifer Mattson
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About the Author

Michael Dahl is a Capstone Press author.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Library Binding: 24 pages
• Publisher: Picture Window Books (January 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1404805788
• ISBN-13: 978-1404805781
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 11 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,926,314 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Dahl is the author of more than 200 books for children and young adults. His nonfiction has won the AEP Distinguished Achievement Award three times. His Finnegan Zwake mystery series published by Simon & Schuster won rave reviews and two of its titles were shortlisted for the Edgar and the Anthony Mystery Awards. He has written The Everything Kid's Joke Book as well as Gotcha Covered! (with Kathleen Baxter from School Library Journal) on nonfiction books that get kids excited about reading. Dahl is the Editorial Director for Stone Arch Books based in Minneapolis, where his books have won national design awards and been selected by the Junior Library Guild. His fantasy series, The Library of Doom, is the most-read series by hi-lo readers across the country. He has spoken at numerous schools, libraries, bookstores, and conferences inn the US and UK, including ALA, AASL, Renaissance Learning, TLA and IRA. He lives in a haunted house.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Kids Book About Growing Food, July 14, 2010

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This review is from: From the Garden: A Counting Book About Growing Food (Know Your Numbers) (Paperback)

As a Father, I immediately like this book
Growing food used to be a large part of human knowledge,
I feel a responsibility to show that to my son , their have
to start at very young age to love the nature.
Our yard has lots of things to explore so many times we would just walk around our own backyard together.