The number of objects in the landscape grows exponentially and symmetrically, and the detailed watercolor illustrations inspire careful examination.Īnno’s Counting Book is a helpful book for developing mathematical understanding of basic and, later, more complex concepts, but what makes it extraordinary is its evocation of the beauty of numbers. The wordless book adds objects to each consecutive page, corresponding to each number and reflecting the seasons, time of day, and other events in nature and human life. The first page is an empty landscape, corresponding to 0. Starting with 0 and ending with 12, it’s the most complex and interesting counting book I’ve ever encountered. Each time you do so, you will find another application of a natural mathematical concept that you had not noticed before.Anno’s Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno is one of those books that my kids and I looked at constantly when they were in elementary school.
Just as our forebears developed our number system from observing the order of nature, the reader is subtly led to see and understand the real meaning of numbers.Look at this book and look again. But the seemingly simple plan of the book is deceptive: look more carefully and you will see one-to-one correspondences groups and sets scales and tabulations changes over time periods and many other mathematical relationships as they occur in natural, everyday living. Gentle watercolor pictures show a landscape changing through the various times of day and the turning seasons, months and years, and the activities of the people and animals who come to live there. As they try to bring sense and order into what they observe, they are actually performing basic mathematical feats.In this book, Mitsumasa Anno, the creator of the brilliantly inventive Anno's Alphabet, invites young readers on another stimulating adventure of the imagination-this time into the world of numbers and counting. 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. Annotation: Every child is a natural mathematician, according to Mitsumasa Anno.
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