TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anno,Mitsumasa
TI  - Anno's counting book
SN  - 0064431231
U1  - 513.5 22
PY  - 1975///
CY  - New York
PB  - HarperCollins
KW  - Country life
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Seasons
KW  - Counting
KW  - Stories without words
KW  - Numeration
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Number systems
KW  - Japanese fiction
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - Children's stories, Japanese
N1  - Translation of Kazoete miyo; Hans Christian Andersen illustrator award, 1984; Reprint. Originally published: 1977
N2  - A counting book depicting the growth in a village and surrounding countryside during twelve months; With Anno's Counting Book, the creator of the brilliantly inventive Anno's Alphabet invites young readers on another stimulating adventure of the imagination this time into the world of numbers and counting.

Gentle watercolor pictures show a landscape changing through the various times of day and the turning seasons, months and years, and the activities of the people and animals who come to live there. But the seemingly simple plan of the book is deceptive: look more carefully and you will see one-to-one correspondences; groups and sets; scales and tabulations; changes over time periods; and many other mathematical relationships as they occur in natural, everyday living. The reader is subtly led to see and understand the real meaning of numbers; "Introduces counting and number systems by showing mathematical relationships in nature"--Provided by publisher
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