Overview
""Over in the Meadow in the sand in the sun, Lived an old mother turtle and her little turtle one."" So begins this classic nursery poem, written by Olive A Wadsworth in the late 19th century, a favorite counting rhyme for generations of children. Anna Vojtech's sweet illustrations depict a sun-drenched meadow filled with loving animal families-from mother turtle with her one baby to ten little beavers embraced by their doting mother. There are lots to count in the cleverly designed pictures, and sharp-eyed youngsters will delight in finding a corresponding number of background details on each spread.
Full Product Details
Author: Olive A. Wadsworth ,
Anna Vojtech
Publisher: North-South Books
Imprint: North-South Books
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 28.00cm
, Height: 0.60cm
, Length: 27.70cm
Weight: 0.408kg
ISBN: 9780735815964
ISBN 10: 0735815968
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 01 February 2002
Recommended Age: From 3 To 6
Audience:
General/trade
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Children/juvenile
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General
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Children's (6-12)
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
""[Vojtech] places [the animals] into an idyllic meadow scattered with appropriate numbers of bugs, flowers, and other items for enthusiastic young counters to enumerate.""-- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""[With an] appealing and energetic landscape of boldly applied colors, learning to count is as easy as one, two, three.""-- ""Publishers Weekly""
The animal cast of this 19th-century counting rhyme has been subject to many variations; here, Vojtech (Tough Beginnings: How Baby Animals Survive, 2001, etc.) chooses a set and arranges them on oversized pages in intimate gatherings of smiling, smoothly painted single-parent families. She places them into an idyllic meadow scattered with appropriate numbers of bugs, flowers, and other items for enthusiastic young counters to enumerate. There's no musical arrangement for the odd parent who doesn't already know the tune, and despite mother beaver's order to beave, her ten offspring are shown asleep-but children will find this rendition easier on the eye than the frantic Langstaff/Rojankovsky edition (1957, 1985), or Ezra Jack Keats's self-consciously arty version (1971). (Picture book. 4-6) (Kirkus Reviews)
[Vojtech] places [the animals] into an idyllic meadow scattered with appropriate numbers of bugs, flowers, and other items for enthusiastic young counters to enumerate. -- Kirkus Reviews [With an] appealing and energetic landscape of boldly applied colors, learning to count is as easy as one, two, three. -- Publishers Weekly
"""[Vojtech] places [the animals] into an idyllic meadow scattered with appropriate numbers of bugs, flowers, and other items for enthusiastic young counters to enumerate.""-- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""[With an] appealing and energetic landscape of boldly applied colors, learning to count is as easy as one, two, three.""-- ""Publishers Weekly"""
Author Information
Anna Vojtech has illustrated numerous books for children, mostly folktales and stories about nature. Nature has always been a strong source of inspiration for Anna.
