{"id":42518,"date":"2023-08-12T21:57:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T01:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42518"},"modified":"2023-08-12T22:03:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T02:03:33","slug":"review-of-some-of-these-are-snails-by-carter-higgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42518","title":{"rendered":"Review of Some of These Are Snails, by Carter Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Some of These Are Snails<\/em><\/p>\n

by Carter Higgins<\/p>\n

Chronicle Books, 2023. 52 pages.
\nReview written June 12, 2023, from a library book.
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

Some of These Are Snails<\/em> is a bright and colorful book of graphic design on a white background introducing the early math concepts of classification and quantity.<\/p>\n

The pictures are made up of simple shapes – mostly circles, squares, and triangles. They’re distinct colors. They’re in different sizes. Some have enough detail added to turn them into animals. And many have spots or stripes.<\/p>\n

Starting simple with “turtle is a circle,” several things are introduced, and it quickly builds in complexity. I particularly like this page:<\/p>\n

purple circles
\nsmall circles
\ncircles in a square [Above those words, nine small circles are arranged in a square formation.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then the book starts asking questions:<\/p>\n

can you sort by color?
\ncan you sort by size?
\ncan you sort by shape or find the animals with eyes?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As it progresses from there, you see many things on a page, and the book begins using vocabulary like “all,” “some,” “each,” “a lot.”<\/p>\n

And then some more questions:<\/p>\n

what is one?
\nwhat is some?
\nwhere is all and
\nwhere is none?<\/p>\n

who’s stripiest?
\nwho’s spottiest?
\nwho’s wiggly wigglier wiggliest?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The book finishes with more images and more rhymes about them (wonderful rhymes that you want to read aloud), still looking at the pictures by color, shape, size, and animal.<\/p>\n

As with most picture books, you really do need to check this out and hold it in your hands, preferably with a child in your lap. This book is playful and beautiful and best of all, encourages small children to talk about what they know about the simplest kinds of math.<\/p>\n

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\nchroniclekids.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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