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In sensational (and highly unlikely) newspaper stories, readers can count giant banjos, carrot icicles, pickle balloons, and jelly faucets. Max Grover's paintings, with their intense color and unexpected juxtapositions, make counting more fun than a car with sixteen wheels on one side "The paintings are wonderously bright, oscillating between campy humor and pure absurdity. A full-blast chuckle machine that doubles, very quietly, as a book about numbers."-Kirkus Reviews

Product Identifiers

PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN-100152000909

ISBN-139780152000905

eBay Product ID (ePID)71171

Product Key Features

Publication Year1995

TopicBusiness, Careers, Occupations, General, concepts / Counting & Numbers

Book TitleAmazing and Incredible Counting Stories! : a Number of Tall Tales

LanguageEnglish

GenreJuvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction

AuthorMax Grover

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length11in.

Item Height0.4in.

Item Weight14.5 Oz

Item Width8.5in.

Additional Product Features

LCCN94-017837

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience, Ages 9-12, Ages 4-8, Ages 2-3, under 2 Years

Age Range4-7

Dewey DecimalJuv

Grade toThird Grade

Edition DescriptionAbridged Edition

Lc Classification NumberPz7.G93113am 1995

Illustrated byGrover, MAX

Dewey Edition20

ReviewsPreSchool-Grade 2 An odd picture book. Numbers 1-25, 50, 75, 100, and millions are introduced in the form of a bizarre headline ("4 Jelly Faucets Prove Big Time-Saver for Kids) above one of Grover's bright acrylic paintings with a "cut line" summarizing the visual moment ("A girl shows how quickly she can make sandwiches using this new device. Now she has more time to spend with her pet alligator.") This stuff is a lot weirder'and sillier'than Dr. Seuss but will surely draw children into counting toasters, carrot slices, inflatable pickles, layers on a birthday cake, shoes, clocks, yardsticks, and acrobatic accordionists. Amazing Stories should produce a few giggles among youngsters, even if teachers are left scratching their heads looking for a punch line. At least the lone skyscraper in the opening scene looks like a "1." There's even a shameless plug for the public library (which should, of course, have a copy of Grover's curious counting book). John Sigwald, Unger Memorial Library, Plainview, TX, Ages 5-8. The counting concept gives Grover some structure for his series of number stories of the wacky, the incongruous, and the bizarre. Primary-grade children know enough about the world to catch the humor, which is just their style, as in the segment about a house that grows "8 carrot icicles" during the winter, prompting its owners to make "iced carrot cake." Each of the 27 stories has a headline and a sentence or two of elaboration, and many of the jokes are subtle enough to be funnier on the second and third readings. Grover's bold acrylics lend plenty of amusing detail and a bright, jazzy feel.

Grade fromPreschool

IllustratedYes

Number of Pages32 Pages