by William Joyce, Christina Ellis
"And soon something ABSOLUTELY, BRILLIANTLY, CHEERFUL started to happen..." This book is a work of art. It is gorgeous from cover to cover. The story starts in a world of only numbers. Its orderly, there's no color, only black and white numbers. Then the five heroes wanted something different, ...
The story line can be too much for young children and may make sense for older children. My pre-kindergarteners and beginning of the year kindergarteners seemed to lose a lot of the story. However, when they used it to tell the story to each other (reading without using the words) they really enjoy...
Joyce is pretty much an automatic love for me. This one has a clear plastic dustjacket with the black and white numbers on it and a special surprise underneath. Gorgeous. The story concept is good, but really, this is just awesome art. I do not at all mind that he has a study full of newcomers learn...
Joyce is pretty much an automatic love for me. This one has a clear plastic dustjacket with the black and white numbers on it and a special surprise underneath. Gorgeous. The story concept is good, but really, this is just awesome art. I do not at all mind that he has a study full of newcomers lear...
Look, I think this is a pretty book with great illustrations and the story it tells is pretty decent, but I can't help but be upset by the whole thing. This entire book is about how the fact that numbers are BORING and we need LETTERS AND WORDS to bring magic into our lives and I just think that's t...
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