26 Letters and 99 Cents
by Tana Hoban
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Color photographs of letters, numbers, coins, and common objects introduce the alphabet, coinage, and the counting system.Tags
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This book is done in a very fun and captivating way. One side of the book teaches numbers, and when you get to the end of the alphabet, you flip the book upside down and over and the numbers are taught. The numbers are taught with coins representing the number, and the letters are taught with objects that start with that letter.
If you know the 26 letters of the alphabet, can count to 99, and understand that there is more than one way to make 25 cents out of coins, you have obviously just finished reading Tana Hoban's brilliant 26 Letters and 99 Cents. Whichever end you start at is only the beginning! This innovative book is two books in one! First, learn the alphabet, then turn the book over and count from 1 to 99 using combinations of coins.
This book was great for children. All the letters from A-Z were accompanied by objects that started with the same letter. A for airplane Z for zipper. If you flip the book you will see the many ways to make change. This book goes all the way up to 99 cents! Most of the numbers have multiple examples for how to make them.
An alphabet book that teaches a little bit about counting money at the same time. Since numbers don't start with a lot of different letters, not many of them were about money, which was a little disconnected. But it would be just as effective for teaching the alphabet.
Great, bold numbers and letters with corresponding pictures. Money seems a little advanced for subject matter, but nice, clear pictures of coins.
A concept book, no words. What makes it stand out is the way it explains with real life full size pictures how to add up pennies, nickels and dimes to get specific amounts. For that it's very good.
This is a great book to teach counting and to teach the letters of the alphabet. If you open this book on the number side you see numbers starting at 1 and going up to 99. There is change representing each number. If you open it up on the other side you see the letters of the alphabet. Each letter has a picture that begins with the same letter. (Airplane for A) This book is great for younger children because they are able to visualize what they are doing.
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Tana Hoban was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has also lived in Holland and England. Hoban graduated from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia in 1938, and painted in Europe as a recipient of the John Frederick Lewis Fellowship. When she returned to Philadelphia, she worked as a free-lance advertising artist and magazine illustrator. By show more 1950 her work was included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and in 1953 she was the only woman mentioned in a Time magazine portfolio on "Half a Century of U.S. Photography." In 1959 she was named one of the Top Ten Women Photographers by the Professional Photographers of America. Hoban worked as an instructor in photography at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania from 1966 to 1968. In 1967 she produced and filmed Catsup, an award-winning film which was shown at the Venice Film Festival. By 1955, she had written a book on photographing children, and in 1970 she combined her skills as a photographer with her interest in children to produce her first juvenile picture book, Shapes and Things. In 1973, Hoban served as project photographer for Beginning Concepts, a series of sound filmstrips produced by Scholastic Magazines, Inc. From 1974 to 1976 she taught photography at New York University. As of 1990, five of her books had been listed as ALA Notables. She has received awards for her entire body of work three separate times. In 1991, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from her alma mater, the Moore College of Art. Her works are included in the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, among other collections in both the United States and France. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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