CM Magazine: The Gummi Bear Counting Book.

________________ CM . . . . Volume V Number 7 . . . . November 27, 1998

The Gummi Bear Counting Book.

Lindley Boeghold. Illustrated by Pam Wall.
New York, NY: Lorenz Books [Distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books], 1997.
20 pp., cloth, $7.99.
ISBN 1-85967-601-4.

Subject Heading:
Counting-Fiction.

Preschool - Kindergarten / Ages 2 - 5.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.

*** /4

excerpt:

One lonely Gummi Bear,
what's he going to do?
Along comes a friend
and then there are...

This simple counting book is made up of 10 pairs of facing pages. On one is found a large white number [1 through 10] which is superimposed on an unchanging background of a pile of coloured Gummi Bears. On the other page are four lines of poetry with an illustration of the appropriate number of Gummi Bears carrying out the action described within the poetry. As illustrated in the "excerpt," the last word in the fourth line is to be verbally supplied by the listening child. Should the child not yet know his/her numbers, the missing word is the first word on the next page. Through "5," each new bear is of a different colour and then the colours repeat. Beginning counters should have no difficulty through "8"; however, the Gummi Bears in "9" and "10" overlap somewhat, and some children may count some bears more than once. Nonetheless, an acceptable introduction to numbers, and one which may motivate those children who already know the sweeter version of the Gummi Bears.

Recommended.

Give Dave Jenkinson 10 Gummi Bears, and he'll show you how to count to zero.

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Published by
The Manitoba Library Association
ISSN 1201-9364

TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THIS ISSUE - NOVEMBER 27, 1998.