Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On

Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On About this product Product Information Brightly colored fish introduce young children to counting and basic addition in this fun and simple concept book. “A visual treat from start to finish.”– Booklist Product Identifiers Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company ISBN-10 0152280502 ISBN-13 9780152280505 eBay Product ID (ePID) 37982 Product Key Features Format Hardcover Language English Publication Year 1990 Number of Pages 40 Pages Dimensions Item Length 6.5in. Item Height 0.4in. Item Width 11in. Item Weight 10.9 Oz Additional Product Features Age Range 4-7 Lc Classification Number Pz8.3.E29fi 1990 Grade from Preschool Grade to Third Grade Reviews star “Ehlert’s sense of color and graphic design is amazing. . . . A visual treat from start to finish.” -Booklist (starred review) “A counting book with enough novelty to hold a child’s interest, and enough complexity to sustain repeated readings.” -The New York Times Book Review “Preschool youngsters will be enchanted with the undersea world.” -Chicago Sun-Times, star “Ehlert’s sense of color and graphic design is amazing. . . . A visual treat from start to finish.” –Booklist (starred review) “A counting book with enough novelty to hold a child’s interest, and enough complexity to sustain repeated readings.” –The New York Times Book Review “Preschool youngsters will be enchanted with the undersea world.” –Chicago Sun-Times, “If you could truly have a wish, would you wish to be a fish?” This question, posed at the end of Ehlert’s ( Chicka Chicka Boom Boom ) latest, typically tropical-hued offering, will be answered with resounding affirmatives from captivated readers. In deepest ocean waters (midnight-blue pages) swim gaudy denizens of the deep, waiting to be enumerated by the child who “could put on a suit of scales, add some fins and one of these tails.” Counting has seldom been so painlessly presented, and each page incorporates a simple arithmetic lesson, as the aquatic voyager adds him- or herself to the marine groupings. Ehlert’s sense of fun is surpassed here only by her sense of color: in brilliant greens, purples, oranges and pinks–to name but a few–she presents in lighthearted rhyme an amazing, appealing aquarium. For enjoyment and education, Fish Eyes can be counted on indeed. Ages 4-8. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc., PreSchool-Grade 1– Stylized fish shapes in flat, razzle-dazzle colors against a dark blue background float across the pages from one to ten, accompanied by one little dark fish who keeps the count going. Cutout circles at the eyes reveal colors on succeeding pages. The slight text, occasionally in rhyme, introduces adjectives through the count, and tries to set a context of wish-fulfillment. It’s a slick production, attempting several concepts at once–numbers, shapes, colors, imagining, addition to a value of one–but it doesn’t quite hang together, and its result is a little breathless. MacDonald and Oakes’ Numblers (Dial, 1988) also uses strong color and stark form to present visually the concepts of increasing quantity and transformations, but in a more thoughtful and well-integrated way, with movement inherent in the design. Another little dark fish, Lionni’s Swimmy (Pantheon, 1963), has a more meaningful underwater exploration, incorporating the idea of changing appearances into the story. –Karen Litton, London Public Libraries, Ontario, CanadaCopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Author Lois Ehlert Copyright Date 1990 Target Audience Juvenile Audience Topic Animals / Fishes, General, Stories in Verse (See Also Poetry), concepts / Counting & Numbers Lccn 89-015352 Dewey Decimal [E] Intended Audience Ages 9-12, Ages 4-8, Ages 2-3, under 2 Years Dewey Edition 20 Illustrated Yes Genre Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction Price : 5.02