A novel counting book, centered around a county fair and featuring delightful illustrations, shows how single things can combine to make something unique, new and utterly wondrous.
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PreSchool-Grade 1-An ersatz counting book that confuses rather than clarifies its concepts. It starts out with the statement, "There may be a million stars, but there is only one sky" and works its way down through 50,000 bees and only one hive, to 12 eggs making only one dozen, and then proceeding down to one. The number relationships are not consistent and so become obscured. In some cases, a collective noun is used, such as in 11 cows but only one herd; in another case an equivalent is offered, as in 10 cents make one dime; and in others, individual parts of a larger whole form the entry, e.g., 4 wheels but only one wagon. Garrison's unique illustrations are collographs, collages of various materials glued down on cardboard and then inked and printed on a press and washed with watercolor. The pictures have an antique, sepia look and are in keeping with the book's county fair theme carried out in the depictions of farm animals, merry-go-rounds, and mid-way games. This effort may have some merit for its art technique, but for coherent number concepts, don't count on it.
Judith Gloyer, Milwaukee Public Library
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Judith Gloyer, Milwaukee Public Library
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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GREETINGS TO MY YOUNGER FRIENDS
In my life as a writer nothing has been more important than learning to read. Growing up in the farm country of Indiana, books enabled me to imagine being somewhere else: sleeping on top of the Egyptian pyramids with Halliburton; trekking through the jungles of India with Corbett; or wandering along the Cornwall coast of England with Merlin and Arthur.
Well, I have kept at it -- my love of words and imagination -- and have now written my own books that may help you imagine being in a place you might not have thought possible. For myself I have now even made it to one of those imagined places of childhood -- Cornwall, England -- and perhaps you will, too, someday, make it to a place only dreamed of now through the invented world of a good book. I do know this, dream or no dream, you will need words to get there.
Some of my books are made from experiences that really happened to me. SNOW COMPANY is the best example. The blizzard that occurs in that story is almost exactly like a blizzard I experienced as a boy in Indiana. Living in West Virginia, whether in the country or close to it in small towns, has been important, too. By keeping me close to much that I recall from my childhood, West Virginia is important because it is the place that has been home ever since I went away to Bethany College in 1969.
It is hard to explain, but I am the kind of writer who needs to know where the woods are and that there are good friends and neighbors near by. Maybe that shows in my work. What do you think?
If you are not sure if you are a writer, don't worry. Just make sure you are a reader -- great oaks from little acorns grow -- and there is not a better acorn going than a book to grow a great life.
In my life as a writer nothing has been more important than learning to read. Growing up in the farm country of Indiana, books enabled me to imagine being somewhere else: sleeping on top of the Egyptian pyramids with Halliburton; trekking through the jungles of India with Corbett; or wandering along the Cornwall coast of England with Merlin and Arthur.
Well, I have kept at it -- my love of words and imagination -- and have now written my own books that may help you imagine being in a place you might not have thought possible. For myself I have now even made it to one of those imagined places of childhood -- Cornwall, England -- and perhaps you will, too, someday, make it to a place only dreamed of now through the invented world of a good book. I do know this, dream or no dream, you will need words to get there.
Some of my books are made from experiences that really happened to me. SNOW COMPANY is the best example. The blizzard that occurs in that story is almost exactly like a blizzard I experienced as a boy in Indiana. Living in West Virginia, whether in the country or close to it in small towns, has been important, too. By keeping me close to much that I recall from my childhood, West Virginia is important because it is the place that has been home ever since I went away to Bethany College in 1969.
It is hard to explain, but I am the kind of writer who needs to know where the woods are and that there are good friends and neighbors near by. Maybe that shows in my work. What do you think?
If you are not sure if you are a writer, don't worry. Just make sure you are a reader -- great oaks from little acorns grow -- and there is not a better acorn going than a book to grow a great life.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Lots of possibilities for math.,
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This review is from: Only One (Hardcover)
I also disagree with the editorial review. I don't see a need for all of the one-to-group relationships to be structured in the same way. Almost all of the situations described in the book (4 wheels on a wagon, 12 eggs in a dozen, 10 cents in a dime) can be used as a take off point to write problems that involve multiple groups (what if there were 10 wagons? 40 eggs?) that help children develop what I think is the central mathematical idea of the book: that many things can be thought of as one thing. This idea, by the way, is the one that is the key to base-10 understanding. I've used this book with second graders and the differences that the editorial reviewer points to did not make a big difference in the way the children responded to the problems I posed.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Intro to quantities that make up sets,
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I disagree with the editorial review that calls this disorganized. Each page has a statement about individual units that make up a set, and an opposite page with artwork demonstrating the idea. While there are number quantities that are uncountable "There may be 50,000 bees, but there is only one hive" - the majority are simpler to comprehend: "There may be 9 players, but there is only one team." In fact, the book is organized to start with a million stars in the sky, to progressively smaller quantities - 7 peas in pod, 4 wheels to one wagon, etc. - to end with "there is only one me and only one you." Great picture book for ages 3 to 7
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A Great Message for Young Readers...,
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Our family loves this clever book by author Marc Harshman. "There may be ten cents but there is only one dime, there may be nine players but there is only one team." It is both great for a new reader and reinforces individuality. There is only one you.
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There may be a million stars, But there is only one sky. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
There may be a million stars, But there is only one sky. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Reading Aloud Across the Curriculum: How to Build Bridges in Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies by Reba M. Wadsworth on page 41, and page 54
- The Elementary Math Teacher's Book of Lists: With Ready-to-Use Patterns and Worksheets (J-B Ed: Book of Lists) by Sonia M. Helton on page 35
- Getting the Most from Predictable Books (Grades K-2) by Michael F. Opitz on page 41
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