Oh, What a Beautiful Day!: A Counting Book [Hardcover]

Jeanne Modesitt (Author), Robin Spowart (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2009 | Age Level: 2 and up

On a sunny morning, when the world is green, a young girl takes a walk through the countryside. She discovers that it's the kind of day when pigs prance and ducks dance, and chicks cheep and lambs leap. In this warm and comforting counting book, child and animals are happy to be part of a beautiful world.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Sprightly rhyming text describes the exuberance of a beautiful day as a young girl frolics with 10 different animals. The overall simplicity and the soft illustrations in colored pencil on textured paper have a genteel, graceful feeling. One line of large type per spread narrates. “One pig is prancing. Two ducks are dancing. Three chicks are cheeping. Four lambs are leaping.” The array of animals, wearing hats or clothing, is not the usual assortment and includes swallows, ferrets, hamsters, and llamas. Wearing a red jumper and yellow hat, the girl romps with the animals and mimics their actions, ending with: “And I am part of it all. Oh, what a beautiful day!” The rhymes will entice young ones to repeat the phrases as they point at and count the creatures. Preschool. --Julie Cummins

Review

Imaginative play is celebrated in this slight concept selection...There's no conflict in this sweet story where "Nine hamsters are hugging. / [and] Ten llamas are loving."...Spowart's colored-pencil drawings suit the exuberance of the child's outing, creating a warm, hazy glow. --Kirkus Reviews

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Boyds Mills Pr (March 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563974096
• ISBN-13: 978-1563974090
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,548,000 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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