Everything I Need to Know Before I'm Five

by Valorie Fisher, Valorie Fisher (Illustrator)

Overview

Do you know your letters? Can you count to twenty? Learn all that and more in this all-in-one concept picture book. Perfect for kids heading to kindergarten, this book covers the alphabet, counting, opposites, shapes, colors, and seasons. Award winning author-illustrator Valorie Fisher uses bright, gorgeous photos of retro toys to illustrate these topics in a completely fresh way. Parents will love this stylish and funny approach to basic concepts, while kids will learn, well, everything.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780375988769
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	07/26/2011
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
File size:	11 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	1 - 5 Years

About the Author

Valorie Fisher is the author-illustrator of When Ruby Tried to Grow Candy and How High Can a Dinosaur Count?, which received two starred reviews. She is illustrator of The Fantastic 5 & 10¢ Store and the photographer for the beloved Moxy Maxwell books. Her titles My Big Brother and My Big Sister, both Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award winners, were also illustrated with photographs. Ms. Fisher's photos can be seen in major museum collections around the world, including the Brooklyn Museum, London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

Editorial Reviews

Starred Review, PublishersWeekly, May 30, 2011:
"Fisher (The Fantastic 5 & 10¢ Store) gives preschoolers a leg up on need-to-know information in this energetic collection."

Review, The Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2011:
"There's a faint haziness in Ms. Fisher's photographic style that gives her tableaux a sugared quality; you feel vaguely that you ought to be able to pluck the objects off the page and eat them."

From the Publisher

PreS-K—The retro stylings of toy giraffes in bow ties, sheep in wire-rimmed glasses, and colorful rubber ducks make the pictures in this concept book a delight. Fisher covers numbers 1 to 20, opposites, shapes, colors, seasons, weather words, and the alphabet, portraying these concepts with collage photos of amusing objects sure to spark conversations. The cover art, portraying a doll driving a dump truck full of blocks and letters, is likely to hold appeal for both boys and girls. While the book may not contain everything a child needs to know before kindergarten, it's a great start.—Lindsay Persohn, Crystal Lake Elementary, Lakeland, FL

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