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188 ratings,
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published
March 15th 1991
by HarperTrophy
(first published 1968)
details
Paperback, 48 pages
isbn
0064432513
(isbn13: 9780064432511)
description
One was Johnny but that's not all, count all the others who came to call.'
Author Biography: Maurice Sendak received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for
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Read in May, 2009
This is an original silly counting book, given in rhyme and cumulative verse. For each number up to ten, a different animal or character joins Johnny in his house; when it gets too crowded, he threatens to eat everyone and they leave one by one. Sendak's artwork is delightful, and the slapstick humor and anticipatory drama is very fun. This book may not actually teach children to count unless they memorize it, but it does have the slight advantage of going backwards as well as forwards. The ...more
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Read in January, 2008
I enjoy reading this to A. for its rhyme scheme alone. "One was Johnny who lived by himself. Two was a rat who jumped on his shelf." Johnny, sitting at a little table and trying to relax by reading a book, is a cute role model in a curmudgeonly way. He finds the addition of 8 animals plus one robber more bothersome than remarkable. I won't spoil the ending but in the middle of the book Johnny says he'll count backwards from ten and if they aren't all gone he'll eat them. It's ver...more
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Read in January, 2010
This is book intended to teach children how to count up to ten and back down again. Again, imagination and illustration steal the show. Actually, the dog who came in and sat steals the show!
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My son ABSOLUTELY LOVES this book. He sings it along with the Carole King album and can't get enough of it! He can read this book over and over and over...
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was definitely my favorite early childhood book something akin to Calvin and Hobbe's Hamster Huey.
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Read in May, 2009
Ella and I flipped through this book a couple times. It didn't really grab us.
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Read in June, 2009
Cute counting and rhyming book for young readers and listeners
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Read in June, 2008
A unique counting book because of its good meter/rhyme and its use of advanced vocabulary (for a preschooler). The Scholastic Video version (put into song) is quite enjoyable for my daughter. She wasn't deeply impressed with the book, however, having seen the video first. I find it pleasant to read aloud, which is more than I can say for a great many children's books these days.
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Read in May, 2008
recommends it for:
people learning to count
This book helped me learn to count. Granted, almost 30 years ago. But I can still count to this very day.
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