I also receive review copies from publishers or authors from time to time, with no implied promise that the books will be reviewed favorably or at all.

I am an Amazon associate, which means that clicking on the image of a book I reviewed or on the title of any book mentioned in the review will take you to full publishing and purchasing information, as well as other reviews and comments for most books. Loving both kids and books equally as I do, perhaps helping children and the adults who care about them find good books through this blog is the next best thing to being there. Retired after 32+ years as an elementary librarian, I really miss the joy of bringing together the right book with the right reader at the right time. Labels: Counting Books, Numbers-Fiction (Ages 2-5) Totally ap-pea-ling!' quips Kirkus.Īnd for a perfect preschool pairing, there's a taste of LMNO Peas here. Families are sure to devour Baker's latest winner. Thanks to Keith Baker, kids, teachers, and parents will find both of these titles perfectly pea-chy, and youngsters will never think of that much maligned veggie in the same way again. (For example, sharp-eyed adults will note the fab four ' Peatles' and a glitzy ' Peayonce'' putting in an appearance among the peas. Baker's page design, with all bright-white pages (except for the 60s, a darker decade!) showing off his large pastel numerals as well as the numbers spelled out, works perfectly as a counting primer, but as in the earlier book, the antics of his anthropomorphic stick-limbed peas will charm the eye of youngsters, who will wish to to pea-ruse each page re- peatedly, while his pea-puns have their own wry ap- PEA-l to the adult who reads both books aloud.

While it is a temptation to pun that this latest pea-saga isn't a patch on his alphabet outing, these numerical peas will doubtless please the preschool crowd. The PEAS are back in Keith Baker's re-PEA-t ap pearance of his best-selling pedagogic peas, introduced in LMNO Peas, this time teaching numbers in his new 1-2-3 Peas (Beach Lane, 2012).

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