How Many Kisses?

by Delphine Chedru

Overview

With this adorable children’s book learning to count has never been so sweet

Written and illustrated in the same charming style as Chedru’s other new book for children from Thames & Hudson, Who’s the Biggest?, How Many Kisses? invites the reader to practice counting with little kisses. Young readers count and blow air kisses to their friends, pets, grandparents, and more with this delightfully interactive book. Following a classic counting technique until readers reach the number ten, the book then takes wild jumps up to 17, 64, 823, and finally “millions,” prompting a riotous explosion of kisses from the reader. By encouraging the child to physically interact with the book, reading becomes a game that celebrates all the things a child loves in life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780500651452
Publisher:	Thames & Hudson
Publication date:	08/07/2018
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Delphine Chedru is a graphic designer, author, and illustrator who lives and works in Paris. She is the author of more than thirteen books for children, including the bestselling This or That?.

Editorial Reviews

2018-05-14
A kissfest of a counting book.Bold cover art depicts two children in silhouette, looking at each other. The first holds a bouquet in front of both their faces, and they appear to be kissing behind it. Open the book, and the frontmatter text directs readers to blow kisses at the characters on interior pages (which makes one wonder why the cover art doesn't have a character blowing a kiss, too). The first spread shows a cat sleeping on the recto, while on the facing verso there appears a large, yellow numeral 1 leading off the text: "1 kiss for the cat sleeping on the sofa." Beneath this direction is a yellow dot to reinforce the numeral 1. The next spread follows this design, but with the numeral 2 and two blue dots to count the kisses the reader should blow at the depicted dog. Ensuing pages count up to 10 kisses, with each spread depicting various animals and people (all of whom appear white). Then there's a leap from 10 to 17 kisses for an owl, 64 for the sun, 823 for the wind, and "millions…for all the children playing around the world!" (Here a few children of color appear in small scale.) This playful, dramatic increase should provoke lots of frantic kiss-blowing on the parts of young readers—and laughter, too.Mwah! (Picture book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews