Can You Count Ten Toes? - Hardcover

Roche, Denis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395904994 ISBN 13: 9780395904992

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1999

Synopsis

A colorful book with rhythmic text presents young readers with the numbers one to ten in ten different languages, including Hindi, Zulu, and Japanese.

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Review

In this amusing and informative counting book, each language's original characters, transliterations, and phonetic spellings are provided, giving the reader a three-dimensional approach to each set of numbers. Clean, bright, action-filled illustrations help convey the culture of each language. A useful map and language key is included at the back.
Horn Book

Counting is a good introduction to new languages, and Evans (Snow Dance, 1997) has chosen a nice mix for her exercises from 1-10, including French, Spanish, Zulu, Russian, Chinese, Hebrew, and Hindi. The numerals appear next to their names in their original languages as well as in transliteration and phonetically. Roche's perky illustrations provide ten objects in each picture to be counted, from toes to lightning bugs. A map at the end of the book shows, with color-coded dots, the locations in the world where these languages are spoken.
Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Illustrator Denis Roche says, "It's fun choosing what colors to use. I think this book has shmone different shades of blue in it. I usually paint for nueve hours a day and then get tired and sleep for shi hours." Roche has written and illustrated numerous books. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island with her family.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395904994
• ISBN 13: 9780395904992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32