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One, Two, Tree!
This visually stunning read-aloud book invites young children to count the improbable numbers of animals that clamber up an ever-expanding tree. Brilliant original art by a tribal woman artist from central India brings alive this vivacious and colorful tree of animals. One, Two, Tree! combines the sophistication of an art book for children with the accessibility of a read-...more
Hardcover, 48 pages
Published
April 1st 2004
by Tara Books
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This book is stunning. It is a counting book that displays numbers in both numerical form and written out. The art is wonderful and the objects counted are quite interesting.
so ornate and simple at the same time...
having a hard time finding this book illustrated by Durga Bai, a woman from a tribal community of women who paint beautiful things on the the walls of their homes... cross-class Indian childrens' books! Hooray!
Tammy Flanders
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animals,
art,
counting-books,
elementary,
mathematics,
pattern-books,
picture-books,
non-fiction,
stories-in-rhyme
Miriam
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Anushka Ravishankar, a mathematics graduate, has made a name for herself internationally as an Indian children’s writer, with over 10 books of verse, fiction and non-fiction. Her special talent is in the area of nonsense verse, where she brilliantly adapts this difficult genre to Indian English usage, without a false note. Anushka Ravishankar can be said to have pioneered the Indian English nonsen...more
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