Letters painted as three-dimensional, surreal wooden optical illusions are matched with playful picture-puzzles and borders containing additional illusory illustrations

Anno's Alphabet

Children's Books

ANNO, MITSUMASA

Literature & Fiction

Trophy Pr

A simple, beautiful introduction to math for the youngest readers
Every child is a natural mathematician, according to Mitsumasa Anno. Children are constantly comparing and classifying things and events they observe around them. As they try to bring sense and order into what they observe, they are actually performing basic mathematical feats.
With Anno's Counting Book, the creator of the brilliantly inventive Anno's Alphabet invites young readers on another stimulating adventure of the imagination—this time into the world of numbers and counting. This big book version is the right size for sharing in a classroom.
Gentle watercolor pictures show a landscape changing through the various times of day and the turning seasons, months and years, and the activities of the people and animals who come to live there. But the seemingly simple plan of the book is deceptive: look more carefully and you will see one-to-one correspondences; groups and sets; scales and tabulations; changes over time periods; and many other mathematical relationships as they occur in natural, everyday living. The reader is subtly led to see and understand the real meaning of numbers.
Look at this book and look again. Each time you do so, you will find another application of a natural mathematical concept that you had not noticed before.

Anno's Counting Book Big Book

Biographies

Harpercollins

This unique picture book shows similarities and differences in children and their activities in eight very different parts of the world during a single 24-hour day. Features full-color illustrations by Anno and nine other outstanding illustrators.

All in a Day

Teen & Young Adult

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Anno's Journey

PUTNAM

This picture boook is designed to stretch a child's imagination.

Upside Downers: Pictures to Stretch the Imagination

Pan/Macmillan

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A pictorial journey through the traditional countryside, farms, and towns of northern Europe takes readers past familiar storybook characters, visual jokes and puzzles, tricks of perspective, and other surprises.

ANNOS JOURNEY

RANDOM HOUSE UK

ANNOS ANIMALS

A pictorial presentation of rural, town, and city scenes in Italy, which contain hidden images from fine arts, religion, history, and folklore.

Anno's Italy

History

BODLEY HEAD CHILDREN\'S BOOKS

The Unique World of Mitsumasa Anno: Selected Illustrations 1968-1977

The Bodley Head

The distorted letters of the alphabet become quite clear when viewed with the help of the silver tube included with the book.

ANNOS MAGICAL ABC

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