Number One Number Fun [Hardcover]

Kay Chorao (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up

Pigs, chickens, and other farm animals prance and balance in piles, while the reader is invited to add and subtract their numbers.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Directed by the natty Ringmaster Rat, a menagerie of performing farm animals poses simple math problems in Chorao's (Cathedral Mouse) frolicsome book. The festively costumed creatures spill out of a circus wagon, then reappear in various configurations as limned by Chorao's breezy verses: "How many pigs are piled in fun? Add four plus three plus two plus one. If one falls off the pile of ten, how many piled-up piglets then?" (A few rhymes, however, don't quite align: "other" and "together," "his baton" and "one by one.") On each spread, Ringmaster Rat holds a sign with the puzzle arranged numerically, while a nearby balloon displays the answer. Though prominently disclosing the solution reduces the challenge for the upper end of the target audience, it hardly subtracts from the enjoyment. Chorao's cartoony critters are less delicate than in most of her earlier work, but the arithmetical antics here-clown-suited porkers forming a wobbly pyramid, chickens in tutus prancing on a high wire-impart sum fun. Ages 4-7.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

Grade 1-2?Chorao uses her familiar, sprightly animal characters to illustrate this math-concept book in which a variety of humorously clad beasts engage in circus fun, from unicycle riding to tightrope walking. Their antics create an arithmetic game as some fall, tumble, or jump out of view while others join the mayhem. Framed, full-color, double-page illustrations portray the action and simple, rhyming text describes the activities. A numeric equation is featured on the left side of each page on a sign held by Ringmaster Rat, and the answer appears on the right in a balloon held by a mouse. Despite the book's basic rhymes, playful pictures, and circus theme, it is not for preschool or kindergarten children as the math concepts and their visual interpretations will be better understood by primary-grade children. Aileen Friedman's The King's Commissioners (Scholastic, 1995) uses a similar format to introduce multiplication concepts. Not an essential purchase, but a fun way to introduce addition and subtraction at home or in school.?Heide Piehler, Shorewood Public Library, WI
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 1 pages
• Publisher: Holiday House; 1st edition (March 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823411427
• ISBN-13: 978-0823411429
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 9.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,518,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book makes math fun!, October 30, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Number One Number Fun (Hardcover)

My 4-year-old daughter loves this book. She's learning beginning math concepts, as well as practicing her counting. We read it together, and I put my thumb over the answers until she's solved the problems herself, and she's always so excited when she gets the answers right. The illustrations are very well done, and she likes the circus theme. It's as effective as flash cards for teaching beginning addition and subtraction, but lots more fun.