Hello Numbers! What Can You Do?: An Adventure Beyond Counting

Description

Numbers One through Five come to life in Seussian rhyme - as the cutest counting "units" you've ever seen! Among so much nothing, poor One can't begin To tell where One is from where One's just been. One needs a friend to run from or run to- One needs to compare! One needs there to be . . . Two! Hello Numbers! What Can You Do? helps young learners discover for themselves each number from Zero to Five. As each "new One" appears on the scene, the rollicking, slant-rhyming text prompts the reader to give it a name - showing how bigger numbers are "built" from units of one. For kids who are already counting by rote, this important next step has never been more fun to learn! So say: "Hello new One, and how do you do? I'll call you Two if that's all right with you!"

Edmund Harriss is a mathematical artist and clinical assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Arkansas. He is the discoverer of the Harriss spiral and the creator of Curvahedra, a mathematical construction toy, and is co-author of the mathematical coloring books Patterns of the Universe and Visions of the Universe. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Houston Hughes is a poetry slam artist and has produced hundreds of live shows, the critically acclaimed album Growing Up, Not Old, and his TedX talk on storytelling. He lives in, and loves, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Brian Rea produces drawings and paintings for books, magazines, murals, fashion, and film projects around the world. He has illustrated the popular New York Times column "Modern Love" for a decade. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, his son, and his plants.

"An appealingly energetic visualization of numbers. . . . Rea's wide-eyed dots, each brightly color-coded to the number they represent, cavort in a grayscale universe, coming together and breaking apart while introducing concepts such as symmetry, angles, and shapes, and finally inviting children to keep counting as high as they can go."--Publishers Weekly