One Is Not a Pair

by Britta Teckentrup, Britta Teckentrup (Illustrator)

Overview

Can you find the one thing that doesn't match?

Britta Teckentrup, creator of the best-selling The Odd One Out and Where's the Pair?, returns with another gorgeously illustrated spotting book. In One Is Not a Pair, each patterned page contains a set of pairs . . . but one thing does not match any of the others. Can you find it?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763693190
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	03/14/2017
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Britta Teckentrup is a fine artist who has written and illustrated many well-loved books for children, including The Odd One Out. Born in Hamburg, Germany, she later studied at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London.

Editorial Reviews

For kids who love visual puzzles, this handsome book offers a different twist on the find-the-object theme...Created with a strong sense of design, the digital artwork creates pleasing patterns of forms and colors. The third volume in a series that includes Teckentrup’s The Odd One Out (2014) and Where’s the Pair? (2015), this picture book looks like fun, and it is.
—Booklist Online

From the Publisher

2016-11-23
Combining the premises of Odd One Out (2014) and Where's the Pair? (2015), galleries of almost identical birds, teddy bears, colorful socks, ice cream cones, and other items invite readers to match up identical pairs—then find outliers.Good luck with that. Against misleadingly simple monochrome backgrounds, Teckentrup arranges odd numbers of familiar items—from 11 birds to 61 colored pencils—composed of multiple small geometrical elements. Haworth tells readers what to do in accompanying verses: "These red-and-white toadstools / are covered in spots, / and the ladybugs, too, / have splendid black dots. / Match up the toadstools— / there are two of each kind. / But there's one with no mate, / which you have to find!" Several maddeningly similar mushrooms of slightly varying sizes and spot density are placed on a deep-green field, each with a ladybug that has the same number of spots as its mushroom. Spotting the one mushroom-and-ladybug pair that does not have a corresponding match is a significant challenge. The puzzles appear in an apparently arbitrary sequence rather than in increasing order of difficulty, but the final one, in which pairs (plus one unspecified singleton) drawn from all the previous pages are scattered, truly caps the lot. Even young sleuths who had little trouble finding Waldo may be challenged by some of these exercises in pattern recognition. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews