Numeralia
Will be published approx. on 17. April 2014
Book
Hardback
32 pages
978-1-55498-444-2 (ISBN)
Description
From the first page of this unusual and original collaboration between Jorge Lujan and Isol, readers will realize that this is not just another counting book. Whether they are discovering that three is for bedtime kisses, or that five is for secret creatures hiding in a glove, children will delight in the poetic and sometimes surreal text. The illustrations by Isol, winner of the 2012 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, depict a world at once familiar and strange, a place where the three musketeers can suddenly become six, and the ugly duckling is not so ugly after all.
This is a book that presents children with the opportunity to go beyond simply learning to count from zero to ten. The book will encourage very young children (and older ones as well) to create their own meanings and make their own connections between the text and the art.
This is a book that presents children with the opportunity to go beyond simply learning to count from zero to ten. The book will encourage very young children (and older ones as well) to create their own meanings and make their own connections between the text and the art.
Reviews / Votes
"Lujan reinvents numbers through a fanciful lens. . . . clever [and] child-friendly." - School Library Journal "It's an unexpected way of looking at written characters, but one that will make intuitive sense to children." - Publishers Weekly "Numeralia is the melding of artistic endeavor and creativity, conveying staid concepts with the right blend of quirkiness and originality." - CM MagazineMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ontario
Canada
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 3 years
Product notice
Picture book
Illustrations
Color illustrations throughout
Dimensions
Height: 287 mm
Width: 234 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55498-444-2 (9781554984442)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
JORGE LUJAN is an author, poet and musician. His body of work, translated into eighteen languages, includes Stephen and the Beetle, illustrated by Chiara Carrer; Doggy Slippers and Numeralia, illustrated by Isol; Colors! !Colores!, illustrated by Piet Grobler; and Movi la mano / I Moved My Hand, illustrated by Mandana Sadat. He has won the Premio de Poesia para Ninos de ALIJA, and has been nominated for the 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Award and nominated eight times for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. He lives in Mexico.
Isol is an award-winning author and illustrator, who has been honored with the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for her outstanding contribution to children's literature. She is renowned for creating picture books, which, as noted in the citation from the ALMA jury, are created "from the eye level of the child." She lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Visit Isol's website:
http://www.isol-isol.com.ar/
Visit Isol's blog:
http://www.isol-isol.com.ar/ SUSAN OURIOU is an award-winning fiction writer and literary translator with over sixty translations and co-translations of fiction, non-fiction, children's and young-adult literature to her credit. She has won the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation. Jane, the Fox and Me, co-translated with Christelle Morelli, was named to IBBY's Honour List. She has also published Nathan, a novel for young readers. Susan lives in Calgary, Alberta.
Isol is an award-winning author and illustrator, who has been honored with the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for her outstanding contribution to children's literature. She is renowned for creating picture books, which, as noted in the citation from the ALMA jury, are created "from the eye level of the child." She lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Visit Isol's website:
http://www.isol-isol.com.ar/
Visit Isol's blog:
http://www.isol-isol.com.ar/ SUSAN OURIOU is an award-winning fiction writer and literary translator with over sixty translations and co-translations of fiction, non-fiction, children's and young-adult literature to her credit. She has won the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation. Jane, the Fox and Me, co-translated with Christelle Morelli, was named to IBBY's Honour List. She has also published Nathan, a novel for young readers. Susan lives in Calgary, Alberta.