First steps : letters, numbers, colors, opposites

Format:

Book

Title:

First steps : letters, numbers, colors, opposites

Author:

Burningham, John.

ISBN:

9781564022059

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publication Information:

Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 1994.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm

General Note:

"First published individually in Great Britain as John Burningham's colors, John Burningham's opposites, John Burningham's a b c, and John Burningham's 1 2 3 in 1985 by Walker Books, Ltd., London."

Summary:

An illustrated introduction to the letters of the alphabet, the numbers one to ten, basic colors, and opposites.

Subject(s):

Alphabet -- Juvenile fiction.

Counting -- Juvenile fiction.

Colors -- Juvenile fiction.

English language -- Synonyms and antonyms -- Juvenile fiction.

Alphabet.

Counting.

Color.

English language -- Synonyms and antonyms.

Genre:

Fiction

Juvenile works

Fiction.

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
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With whimsical illustrations and the sparest of texts, award-winning author-illustrator John Burningham gives toddlers a lively demonstration of the building blocks of learning. Full of spirited fun, these "first steps" -- Letters, Numbers, Colors, and Opposites -- are just right for very young children who are on the path to figuring out the world around them.

Author Notes

John Burningham was born in Farnham, United Kingdom on April 27, 1936. After two and a half years of non-military service as a conscientious objector, he graduated from Central School of Art with distinction in 1959. Before becoming a children's author and illustrator, he made puppets for Yoram Gross's animation film Joseph the Dreamer and was commissioned to produce a number of posters for London Transport.

Burningham's first picture book, Borka: The Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers, was published in 1963 and won the Kate Greenaway Medal. His other books included Humbert, Avocado Baby, Oi! Get Off Our Train, Courtney, Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas Present, Come Away from the Water, Shirley, England, Cloudland, France, and There's Going to Be a Baby written with his wife and fellow illustrator Helen Oxenbury. He also illustrated Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1964 and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows in 1983. He received the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1970 for Mr. Gumpy's Outing, the Kurt Maschler award in 1984 for Granpa, and the Booktrust lifetime achievement award in 2018 with Oxenbury. Burningham died on January 4, 2019 at the age of 82.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Horn Book Review

In the full-sized compilation of four titles originally published as small, separate books, a typically ingenuous Burningham child interacts with animals and objects in the alphabet section of the book; climbs a tree with ten children and a tiger in the counting part; appears in tableaux of different colors; and demonstrates the concept of opposites. Burningham's economical drawings in soft watercolors and crayon are given new life in the fresh, open design; the childlike, crayon-scrawl endpapers are particularly appealing. From HORN BOOK 1994, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Ages 2-4. This beginning concept book presents quarter-, half-, and full-page illustrations for each letter, number, color, and opposite. All the pictures are of items familiar from everyday life (playmates and umbrellas) or book life (yaks and zebras). The colored ink and colored pencil drawings are the book's strength. They are particularly successful in emphasizing facial expressions, especially on the animals, who frequently look quizzical, hard-working, independently determined, or, most of all, patient with the young person joyously taking first steps around them. ~--Mary Harris Veeder

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