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Ian Brown and Eoin Clarke’s brilliant Albert the Tortoise takes young children aged 0-3 on a journey around his garden home to introduce the concept of numbers and basic numeracy in this new book.
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Published October 8, 2024
About the author
Ian Brown
192 books44 followersA Canadian journalist and author.
He is currently the host of Human Edge and The View from Here on TVOntario, and has hosted programming for CBC Radio One, including Later the Same Day, Talking Books, and Sunday Morning.
He has also worked as a business writer at Maclean's and the Financial Post, a feature reporter for The Globe and Mail, and a freelance journalist for other magazines including Saturday Night.
Brown is also the editor of What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men a 2006 collection of twenty-nine essays by prominent Canadian writers, including Greg Hollingshead, David MacFarlane, Don Gillmor, Bert Archer, and Brown himself, who asked his contributors to write on subjects that they'd like to discuss with women but had never been able to.
Brown has also published three books, Freewheeling (1989) about the Billes family, owners of Canadian Tire, and Man Overboard. He is an occasional contributor to the American public radio program This American Life. The Boy in the Moon, a book-length version of Brown's series of Globe and Mail features dealing with his son Walker's rare genetic disorder, Cardiofaciocutaneous Syndrome (CFC), was published in the fall of 2009.
In January 2010, Ian Brown won British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for his book The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son. The award is Canada's richest non-fiction prize and offers the winner a $40,000 prize. In February, 2010, the book won the Charles Taylor Prize, a $25,000 prize which recognizes excellence in literary non-fiction.
Brown is married to Globe and Mail film critic Johanna Schneller.
He is currently the host of Human Edge and The View from Here on TVOntario, and has hosted programming for CBC Radio One, including Later the Same Day, Talking Books, and Sunday Morning.
He has also worked as a business writer at Maclean's and the Financial Post, a feature reporter for The Globe and Mail, and a freelance journalist for other magazines including Saturday Night.
Brown is also the editor of What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men a 2006 collection of twenty-nine essays by prominent Canadian writers, including Greg Hollingshead, David MacFarlane, Don Gillmor, Bert Archer, and Brown himself, who asked his contributors to write on subjects that they'd like to discuss with women but had never been able to.
Brown has also published three books, Freewheeling (1989) about the Billes family, owners of Canadian Tire, and Man Overboard. He is an occasional contributor to the American public radio program This American Life. The Boy in the Moon, a book-length version of Brown's series of Globe and Mail features dealing with his son Walker's rare genetic disorder, Cardiofaciocutaneous Syndrome (CFC), was published in the fall of 2009.
In January 2010, Ian Brown won British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for his book The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son. The award is Canada's richest non-fiction prize and offers the winner a $40,000 prize. In February, 2010, the book won the Charles Taylor Prize, a $25,000 prize which recognizes excellence in literary non-fiction.
Brown is married to Globe and Mail film critic Johanna Schneller.
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November 21, 2024
I read this as a beautiful board book
I love this great idea that, Albert the tortoise, is helping children to count, by counting how many friends of Albert’s they can see.
This is a lovely illustrated book by Eoin Clarke.
I think it great that Ian Brown, is a children’s author well known for his commitment in giving children many hours of fun, with the most enjoyable Albert tortoise series.
Albert 1, 2, 3, is the perfect children’s book in finding and counting, Albert’s friends from one his friends to 10 friends.
I believe that it is very important for children to learn how to count in a super easy fun way.
For parents, and infant schools, let children enjoy Albert and his friends on a special counting day.
I love this great idea that, Albert the tortoise, is helping children to count, by counting how many friends of Albert’s they can see.
This is a lovely illustrated book by Eoin Clarke.
I think it great that Ian Brown, is a children’s author well known for his commitment in giving children many hours of fun, with the most enjoyable Albert tortoise series.
Albert 1, 2, 3, is the perfect children’s book in finding and counting, Albert’s friends from one his friends to 10 friends.
I believe that it is very important for children to learn how to count in a super easy fun way.
For parents, and infant schools, let children enjoy Albert and his friends on a special counting day.
Displaying 1 of 1 review