Goodnight, Numbers

by Danica McKellar, Alicia Padrón (Illustrator)

Overview

McKellar's "New York Times"-bestselling math picture book is now in a board book format. Illustrations and simple text help the reader understand the numbers one to 10 and recognize them as they appear all around us, especially at bedtime. Full color.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101933817
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	02/13/2018
Series:	McKellar Math
Pages:	30
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Danica McKellar is the New York Times bestselling author of Goodnight, Numbers and the groundbreaking math books for middle school and high school readers, including Kiss My Math, and a summa cum laude graduate of UCLA with a degree in mathematics. She is well known for her acting roles on The Wonder Years, The West Wing, and multiple television movies for Hallmark Channel and Lifetime. She was also a quarterfinalist on Dancing with the Stars. She lives with her family in Los Angeles. Visit her at McKellarMath.com.


Alicia Padrón is known for her sweet characters and soft colors. She lives in Florida with her husband, two children, and dogs Lucy and Luna.

Editorial Reviews

When it comes to expressing a love for math, you can always count on Danica McKellar.” –Fox News
 
"A similarly simple, quiet feel as Margaret Wise Brown’s iconic Goodnight Moon...there is a lot to count on." –Booklist
 
"McKellar brings her enthusiasm for mathematics to a younger crowd in this gentle and well-executed counting book." —Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2016-12-06
This bedtime book offers simple rhymes, celebrates the numbers one through 10, and encourages the counting of objects. Each double-page spread shows a different toddler-and-caregiver pair, with careful attention to different skin tones, hair types, genders, and eye shapes. The pastel palette and soft, rounded contours of people and things add to the sleepy litany of the poems, beginning with "Goodnight, one fork. / Goodnight, one spoon. / Goodnight, one bowl. / I'll see you soon." With each number comes a different part in a toddler's evening routine, including dinner, putting away toys, bathtime, and a bedtime story. The white backgrounds of the pages help to emphasize the bold representations of the numbers in both written and numerical forms. Each spread gives multiple opportunities to practice counting to its particular number; for example, the page for "four" includes four bottles of shampoo and four inlaid dots on a stool—beyond the four objects mentioned in the accompanying rhyme. Each home's décor, and the array and types of toys and accoutrements within, shows a decidedly upscale, Western milieu. This seems compatible with the patronizing author's note to adults, which accuses "the media" of indoctrinating children with fear of math "in our country." Regardless, this sweet treatment of numbers and counting may be good prophylaxis against math phobia. The joys of counting combine with pretty art and homage to Goodnight Moon. (Picture book. 2-4)

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