Following on the heels of the successful alphabetic phenomenon, Countablock feat
ures thick pages cut into the shape of each number, creating a sort of peek-thro
ugh guessing game aroundthe number form itself. One egg becomes...one chick! Fro
m snowmen to puddles and acorns to oaks, quantities are illustrated twice: both
before and after their "transformations." As childreninteract with the pages, th
ey will familiarise themselves not only with the numbers 1-100 and associated qu
antities, but with each numeral's physicality -- angles, holes and curves, both
front and back. Illustrated by hip British design team Peskimo, thisfresh take o
n the 1-2-3s encourages readers to manipulate numbers in a whole new way.
