Anno's Faces

あかちゃん絵本

by Mitsumasa Anno

Depicts familiar fruits and vegetables, including the strawberry, orange, watermelon, and green pea. Moving see-through plastic cards over the illustrations causes each fruit and vegetable to smile and frown.

Genres: Mathematics

24 pages, Hardcover

First published May 18, 1988

About the author

His name is written as 安野光雅 in Japanese.

Mitsumasa Anno (born March 20, 1926) was a Japanese illustrator and writer of children's books, known best for picture books with few or no words. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1984 for his "lasting contribution to children's literature".

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Pam · Rating 2 out of 5]

A friend asked me to review Anno's various books and to give her my opinion. Having ordered this from the library I was totally confused, did the author want the child to draw all over the book. The fact you were supposed to use plastic strips makes sense but there was no mention of this in the book I got from the library. Odd...

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would recommend this book for PreSchool-Grade 2 aged children-- Using a simple idea beautifully executed, Anno has created a book with which children can learn to identify both familiar and exotic fruits and vegetables and enjoy creative dramatic play. Carefully and realistically rendered illustrations of 47 fruits and vegetables appear on white backgrounds. Below a thin frame surrounding the page is the name of the fruit or vegetable. Two transparent plastic strips accompany the book. One has a large smile, triangle nose, and dot eyes on one end and a smaller version on the other end; frown features are on either end of the other strip. Children looking at the book can create conversations between the fruits and vegetables by holding the strips so that the fruits and vegetables appear to have faces and supply the words themselves. The strips have safely rounded edges, and although they will undoubtedly get lost at some point, it would be a simple matter to cut out more and draw features with permanent markers. But this would be a great book for younger kids to try and get them to use pictures in a book to know whats going of and who still may need help with reading.

[Cya]

This is a good story problem book. The illustrations in the book are lovely. At the end of the book the author shows in numbers how to solve the story problem. I would use this book for 3rd graders who are studying word problems.

[Jessica Vu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book for multiplication and word problems. Students can create similar word problems like the ones in the book and share them with a friend. The friend must read the problem and do the math. Fun for pairs or small group in math stations or as a large grop, divided after reading.

[Neionie Pulido]

I would love to introduce this book to students learning their multiplication facts. It would be very easy to create this story in my class with a jar and pictures. I think it is way better than needless drills