FICTION

Numbers on the Move

1 2 3 Dance and Count with Me
by Teresa BENZWIE
978-1-43990-342-1.
COPY ISBN
PreS-K—Benzwie's concept book counts up to 10 and back to 0, matching the numbers with smiling children depicting the body movements ("Can you kick more with four?"; "You march great to number eight!"). The pen and watercolor illustrations are set against softly hued backgrounds, highlighting the action. Still, the book is strangely static; the rhyming text is arrhythmic and awkward and the design, which includes a primary font, a "handwriting" font, and color-blocked, sequenced numerals, has "curriculum support" written all over it. Additional.—Lisa Egly Lehmuller, St. Patrick's Catholic School, Charlotte, NC
Reviewed by Lisa Egly Lehmuller , Dec 01, 2011

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