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Know What I Saw?
An adventurous little girl takes a trip deep into the country and discovers and most remarkable 10 collies, 9 baby chicks, 8 deer-mice, and a basket of kittens from 1 to 7...all the way down to "one little puppy to call my own." A handsome gift, as well as an introduction to the natural world for very young readers, Know What I Saw? is a book to cherish.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2005
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Aileen Fisher
110 books9 followersAileen Lucia Fisher was an American writer of more than a hundred children's books, including poetry, picture books in verse, prose about nature and America, biographies, Bible themed books, plays, and articles for magazines and journals. Her poems have been anthologized many times and are frequently used in textbooks. In 1978 she was awarded the second National Council of Teachers of English Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.
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March 14, 2023
A counting book set in the country?
Count me in!
For starters, illustrations are fantastic. So compelling!
While the rhyming text highlights just enough rhymes to fall on my ear pleasantly. I'd call this excellent kid-lit writing that doesn't call attention to itself, yet is nonetheless stellar.
* Thank you, author Aileen Fisher for a lively story that brings the fun of counting ALIVE.
* Thank you, artist Deborah Durland DeSaix, for these truly remarkable pictures: They make my eyes drool for more. While they make my heart feel so grateful... for this human life.
Count me in!
For starters, illustrations are fantastic. So compelling!
While the rhyming text highlights just enough rhymes to fall on my ear pleasantly. I'd call this excellent kid-lit writing that doesn't call attention to itself, yet is nonetheless stellar.
* Thank you, author Aileen Fisher for a lively story that brings the fun of counting ALIVE.
* Thank you, artist Deborah Durland DeSaix, for these truly remarkable pictures: They make my eyes drool for more. While they make my heart feel so grateful... for this human life.
September 14, 2017
A little girl’s joy at discovering the many surprises of life in the country is captured here in this book in gently rhythmic verse. The pictures in the book are vividly brought to life by the detailed painting so that teachers can make their students count by themselves with these pictures. This book, however, would be used only for the children who are learning to count by ten.
September 15, 2023
I was too busy enjoying the rhythm of the rhyme, with an offbeat extra, that I didn't realize it is also a backwards counting book. At one point, this book did remind me of the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas", but I didn't fully make the connection until I read the inside jacket cover.
April 8, 2019
This was the best book ever! I loved all the pictures, especially the deer jumping. The lady who wrote this book grew up in Iron River-just like me!
December 3, 2014
I chose to read the storybook Know What I Saw? written by Aileen Fisher and illustrated by Deborah Durland DeSaix. On the front cover is a little girl wearing a baseball cap with what looks like mountains in the background. From this pictures, I could infer that she possibly went on a trip to the mountains and saw a lot of things that she had never seen before, and wanted to tell her readers about it. These pictures are well-done and realistically drawn.
The little girl tells a story of things she saw at different places. Throughout the book, the number of items counted back from 10. Each page had a rhyming sequence that was in an unusual pattern, and each page seemed to have a different rhyming pattern. I liked how it used words like “comical”, “graceful”, and “hovered” that younger students may not be familiar with. This would be a good way to introduce using context clues to figure out the meanings of words. Although it is not high-quality literature, this is a fun book to read with a class—possibly 1st grade. I do not know if this would be a book I would be sure to have in my class library mostly because it is not a full story that has a plot that continues throughout the whole thing, so it is difficult to use it for much other than unfamiliar words and rhyming. I do not know if this is a story students would enjoy reading in their free time. Overall, I thought the book was okay for young readers—it could have a place in the classroom but is not a necessity and it did not really draw me in like others have.
The little girl tells a story of things she saw at different places. Throughout the book, the number of items counted back from 10. Each page had a rhyming sequence that was in an unusual pattern, and each page seemed to have a different rhyming pattern. I liked how it used words like “comical”, “graceful”, and “hovered” that younger students may not be familiar with. This would be a good way to introduce using context clues to figure out the meanings of words. Although it is not high-quality literature, this is a fun book to read with a class—possibly 1st grade. I do not know if this would be a book I would be sure to have in my class library mostly because it is not a full story that has a plot that continues throughout the whole thing, so it is difficult to use it for much other than unfamiliar words and rhyming. I do not know if this is a story students would enjoy reading in their free time. Overall, I thought the book was okay for young readers—it could have a place in the classroom but is not a necessity and it did not really draw me in like others have.
March 2, 2010
This book is about a girl who is surround by many things. The girl counts the things that she sees but at the end it is just her, until her dog jumps up and surprises her.
The artwork was what immediately drew me to too this book. The use of space in the book makes the pictures stand out to the reader. The pictures take up three fourths of the page on most pages. The boundaries that the artwork creates a focal point of the pictures. Not only do the pictures create a focal point but it also separates the text from the art. There are distinct, decorative borders to each picture. The illustrator realized that creating white space for text was essential for early readers to focus on the text then the pictures. The use of space creates an easy read for struggling reads while giving that same reader large pictures to look at.
The artwork was what immediately drew me to too this book. The use of space in the book makes the pictures stand out to the reader. The pictures take up three fourths of the page on most pages. The boundaries that the artwork creates a focal point of the pictures. Not only do the pictures create a focal point but it also separates the text from the art. There are distinct, decorative borders to each picture. The illustrator realized that creating white space for text was essential for early readers to focus on the text then the pictures. The use of space creates an easy read for struggling reads while giving that same reader large pictures to look at.
January 26, 2013
Illustrated by Deborah Durland Desaix
The thing that I most liked about this book what the layout of the book with the illustrations taking up 2/3 of the pages spread with large text in a column in the remaining 1/3 of the book. This would be an example where the author writes a poem or children's book and the publisher then contracts or hires an illustrator to show the story. Story takes place in a farmland setting with a little girl counting down from spying on 10 collies to 1 puppy. The illustration of one night in June was my favorite.
The thing that I most liked about this book what the layout of the book with the illustrations taking up 2/3 of the pages spread with large text in a column in the remaining 1/3 of the book. This would be an example where the author writes a poem or children's book and the publisher then contracts or hires an illustrator to show the story. Story takes place in a farmland setting with a little girl counting down from spying on 10 collies to 1 puppy. The illustration of one night in June was my favorite.
March 2, 2011
Literacy skills:
Narrative skills-children will be able to predict what will happen next due to the patterns in the story.
Phonological sensitivity-the rhyme throughout will help build phonological sensitivity.
Narrative skills-children will be able to predict what will happen next due to the patterns in the story.
Phonological sensitivity-the rhyme throughout will help build phonological sensitivity.
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