The whimsical toucans, chickens, owl, and penguin from Write Around the World return, bumbling and tumbling around the world and through time, discovering where numbers came from. From the first counting machine (fingers), pebble markers (or calculus in Latin), and Incan knot-tying to the development of our modern counting system originating in India in 776 C.E. (which took suspicious Europeans 500 years to adopt!), From Zero to Ten is an entertaining and easy-to-understand introduction to the only truly universal language in the world -- numbers -- and related concepts such as trade, money, measurement, time, and even lucky numbers.
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"Quirky....Conversational passages explain the need for and development of mathematical ideas." --The Horn Book Guide
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Vivian French: Oliver's Vegetables (Hodder Children's Books); The Story House (Orion); Growing Frogs (Walker Books). Ross Collins is the top selling illustrator of 'Supposing'.
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Vivian French is an acclaimed children's author with a long and respected list of titles to her name. She lives in Edinburgh and is a regular attendee at the Edinburgh Book Festival where she hosts events with illustrators of picture books.
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Maybe prehistoric men and women sitting in their caves boasted about how many animals they had killed, or told each other how many animals they had killed, or told each other how many there were in an enemy attack: "I caught so many fish, the river is empty!" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Maybe prehistoric men and women sitting in their caves boasted about how many animals they had killed, or told each other how many animals they had killed, or told each other how many there were in an enemy attack: "I caught so many fish, the river is empty!" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Sea Hole by Ross Collins in Back Matter
- A Song for Little Toad by Vivian French in Back Matter
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