Illustrated by :
Isol ,Translated by :
Susan OuriouImprint:
Groundwood Books - TorontoISBN:
9781554984442Product Form:
HardcoverForm detail:
Picture book, Printed dust jacketAudience:
Juvenile: Age (years) 3 - 6, Grade (CAN) P - 1, Grade (US) P - 1Dimensions:
9in x 11.25 x 0.34 in | 0.9 lbPage Count:
32 pagesIllustrations:
Full color throughoutFrom the first page of this unusual and original collaboration between Jorge Luján and Isol, readers will realize that this is not just another counting book. Whether they are discovering that three is for bedtime kisses, or that five is for secret creatures hiding in a glove, children will delight in the poetic and sometimes surreal text. The illustrations by Isol, winner of the 2012 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, depict a world at once familiar and strange, a place where the three musketeers can suddenly become six, and the ugly duckling is not so ugly after all.
This is a book that presents children with the opportunity to go beyond simply learning to count from zero to ten. The book will encourage very young children (and older ones as well) to create their own meanings and make their own connections between the text and the art.
SUSAN OURIOU is an award-winning fiction writer and literary translator with over sixty translations and co-translations of fiction, non-fiction, children’s and young-adult literature to her credit. She has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation. Jane, the Fox and Me, co-translated with Christelle Morelli, was named to IBBY’s Honour List. She has also published Nathan, a novel for young readers. Susan lives in Calgary, Alberta.
Luján reinvents numbers through a fanciful lens. . . . clever [and] child-friendly. - School Library Journal
It's an unexpected way of looking at written characters, but one that will make intuitive sense to children. - Publishers Weekly
Numeralia is the melding of artistic endeavor and creativity, conveying staid concepts with the right blend of quirkiness and originality. - CM Magazine