Waving: A Counting Book

by Peter Sís

As Mary and her mother walk down the street, they wave and are waved at by consecutively increasing numbers of people.

Genres: Picture Books, Counting

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1988

About the author

PETER SÍS is an internationally acclaimed illustrator, filmmaker, painter and author. Born in 1949 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and grew up in Prague. He studied painting and filmmaking at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London. His animated work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He came to America in 1982, and now lives in New York's Hudson Valley with his family. Peter Sís is the first children's book artist to be named a MacArthur Fellow. In 2012 he won The Hans Christian Andersen Award.

His many distinguished books include Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei, Tibet: Through the Red Box, Madlenka, Rainbow Rhino, The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin, The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, and The Conference of the Birds.

Reviews

[Evelyn Saenz · Rating 5 out of 5]

A little girl and her mother wave to a taxi driver and start a friendly chain reaction of waving along a city street. My children loved this book when they were about 4 or 5 years old.

[Deb · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like that this happy waving counting book goes up to 15 instead of only 10.