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I Like to Read® Books for Beginning Readers
* More than 70 fun-to-read books for new readers
* Guided reading levels A through G, based upon Fountas and Pinnell standards
* Award-winning easy reader series, created by acclaimed author-illustrators including winners of Caldecott, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and Coretta Scott King honors
* Levels A though D for kindergarten readers; levels D through G for early first grade readers
Certain to delight young vehicle lovers, this fantastical number book perfectly balances imaginative play with instructions on counting. When one tractor in the grass runs out of gas, the backyard doesn't stay quiet for long. Soon pirates sail in to play, and the backyard races to life with airplanes, cranes, trucks, and trains. Readers can count along as the vehicles and machines soar, hoist, dig, and zoom in this fantastical number book. Young readers, boys partricularly, will love the trucks, trains, vehicles, and machines--and pirates--that spill across each page. The humorous and imaginative play portrayed in this book perfectly balances its emphasis on counting.
Author Notes
Alexandra Siy's books, among them Spidermania, have won many awards, including an Orbis Pictus Honor, an NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book Award, and an American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. She lives in Feura Bush, New York.
Jacqueline Rogers has illustrated books for children of all ages over her thirty-year career. She lives in Chatham, New York.
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 2-This is a counting book, a vehicle book, and a pirate adventure, all rolled into one appealing package. It starts with one red-headed boy and a toy tractor. Next come two airplanes, one of which is piloted by a mouse. The fun really gets rolling when three miniature pirate ships arrive, complete with crews of the jolliest sort. The little swashbucklers cavort through the remaining scenes of big machines at work. There are four cranes, five big trucks, six city buses, seven fire trucks, eight bulldozers, and nine railroad cars, and the charmingly playful pirates are not always adept at using this big equipment. In the end, after rides on 10 bicycles, they return to their ships and sail away. But it is all a dream. The boy is shown sound asleep in the grass with his toy vehicles around him. The fabulous watercolor illustrations show blue sky, green grass, and all the commotion going on in between.-Ieva Bates, Ann Arbor District Library, MI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
In this one-to-ten counting book, a young boy immerses himself in a fantastical world of action-packed fun. Close-up watercolors playfully depict toys brought to life, frolicking across the earth, air, and water aboard all forms of transportation. Spare verses describe the action, and bold red numerals track the increasing number of vehicles on each spread. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
A young boy's imagination fuels adventures galore in this clever one-to-ten counting book. When the boy's toy tractor runs out of gas, he turns to other amusements; as he flies his toy plane, he looks up to see a small mouse piloting one higher up in the sky. The two new friends welcome three boatloads of pirates, who quickly join in the fun, acting on their own instead of being manipulated by the boy as regular playthings are. Together, they all build roads, battle a fire-breathing dragon, take a train ride and peddle their bicycles. When the fun is done, the boy solemnly waves goodbye to the already distant ships and plane. One of the last spreads shows him fast asleep in the grass and surrounded by the toys that inspired his amazing imagination. Rogers's watercolors truly make this concept come to life. Each of the toys has its own personality, and young readers will patiently seek out each of their silly antics on the generous full-page spreads. (Picture book. 2-5) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
In his own backyard a toddler imagines and counts vehicles and machines, from 1 tractor to 10 bicycles. Pirates sail in on 3 floating boats; 5 big trucks are ready to pull; 6 city buses are Stopping, / going all day long. He joins in the action, sitting in a basket hoisted by 4 cranes, helping firemen in 7 fire trucks hosing red hot flames away from a woeful dragon. A few pictures may be too cluttered for the preschoolers to grasp at first (it's hard to count the 10 bicycles that are locked closely together in the rack). But with its simple rhyme and nicely detailed double-page, watercolor spreads, the book does give children an opportunity to recognize the kind of imaginative play they engage in every day as well as join in the counting action that happens on the pages.--Rochman, Hazel Copyright 2008 Booklist