Robert Crowther's Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek 1-2-3 Numbers Book [Hardcover]

Robert Crowther (Author, Illustrator)

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Amazon.com Review

What could be more fun than a hundred little creatures? Why, counting them, of course. Back in print at long last (just like its alphabetic counterpart), this happily interactive book leads you--as promised--on a most amazing game of hide-and-seek. Hey, what's that spider web doing on the number 1? Pull a tab and watch one grinning arachnid spin down from a serif. Is that a beak poking out from the number 2? Sure enough, a quick swing allows two swans to glide out with ease. And so the game goes, as Robert Crowther's delightfully drawn (and not too carefully hidden) creatures take you from 1 to 20 and then up to 100 by tens--8 crabs scuttle out from the 8, 14 piglets pack themselves in the mud under the 14, 90 fleas (eeew!) hop and wriggle under the 90, all the way up to a crazy creature curtain call at 100. Kids and adults alike won't be able to resist counting all these critters carefully. ("That just can't be 60 ladybugs!") (Preschool and older) --Paul Hughes

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Hardcover: 12 pages
• Publisher: Candlewick (August 4, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0763608092
• ISBN-13: 978-0763608095
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,755,003 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Makes me wish I was little again, learning to count!, August 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Robert Crowther's Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek 1-2-3 Numbers Book (Hardcover)

Great counting book, creative, loads of fun for all those little counters! Goes all the way up to 100!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It is cute, but could certainly be more eye-catching, September 3, 2001

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KNSudha (Saratoga, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Robert Crowther's Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek 1-2-3 Numbers Book (Hardcover)

If you like minimalism, you will like this book. Some of the pop-ups are nice, but with only black numbers on a white page, there is not much to attract a younger child. My 13 mo old thoroughly enjoys every tab, and flap of Chuck Murphy's pop-up books, here, most of them are blah, since they come with miniscule portions of animals, though some effects are cute. I liked the 10 butterflies, and more of the same would have been good! And while being small, the illustrations are not even totally true to life/realistic etc. as a saving grace. They look like doodles you or I might do on the magna-doodle!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!!, April 19, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Robert Crowther's Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek 1-2-3 Numbers Book (Hardcover)

I have given this book to many children and ALL have loved it! I would recommend any of the books by this author/illustrator to parents with young children, but they may want to keep some for themselves. Few books offer the simpilicity that this one does...and all the children I have shared this book with have wanted to read it again and again. I guess that is part of what makes the world go around....we all like different things, but I have never seen a child put this book back on the shelf and ask for another!