Anno's Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno is a wonderful counting book for children. The illustrations in this book really do carry children throughout the book and allow them to discover and count the objects in the book on their own without telling them to do so, as there are no words in the book at all. The very first page is nothing but an open, snowy field that looks as though it is framed. On the left side of the frame, outside of the picture is a column of squares that you discover are counting blocks as the pages go on. On the right side of the page is the number zero, because there are no objects to count on this page. As the book goes on and the numbers increase, so do the objects on the pages. On page one, there is one of each object, including one snowman, one tree, one house, etc. The number one is on the right side of the page and there is one counting block on the left side. This pattern continues throughout the rest of the book and you also begin to notice that the seasons are changing in the book as well. The book counts all the way to twelve, signifying the 12 months of the year, as the last and twelfth page …show more content…
This book objects cannot be counted clearly and it does not stand out. This would be hard for me as an educator to teach this to my students. I would have to come with multiple ways to go about this book. I love the illustration in this book. I love how this book shows a developing town with people and everything else that makes up a town. Every child is a natural mathematician, according to Mitsumasa Anno. Children start to count long before they learn their ABC's, for they are constantly comparing and classifying things and events they observe around them. As they try to bring sense and order into what they observe, they are actually performing basic mathematical