{"id":22700,"date":"2014-03-10T10:02:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T14:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=22700"},"modified":"2014-04-17T20:43:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T20:43:25","slug":"numeralia-by-jorge-lujan-illustrated-by-isol-translated-by-susan-ouriou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/numeralia-by-jorge-lujan-illustrated-by-isol-translated-by-susan-ouriou\/","title":{"rendered":"Numeralia by Jorge Luj\u00e1n, illustrated by Isol, translated by Susan Ouriou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/04\/numeralia1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25064\" alt=\"numeralia\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/04\/numeralia1-e1434033362921.jpg\" width=\"627\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>Alphabet and counting books are understandably so predictable as to often be interchangeable in their sameness. ABCs and 123s are really immutable &#8230; or are they? To stand out in such a saturated genre is a rare, welcome occurrence \u2013\u00a0so don&#8217;t dare miss the ingenious, utterly unique <i>Numeralia.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Yes, of course, you&#8217;ll find the numbers 0 through 10 here. But what you&#8217;ll remember most with each numeral is uncountable whimsy and surprising delight.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jorgelujan.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jorge Luj\u00e1n<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 an award-winning Mexico City-based author, poet, architect, musician (!) \u2013 provides the cleverly layered, uncommon ideas, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isol-isol.com.ar\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Isol<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 winner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alma.se\/en\/Award-winners\/2013-Isol\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2013 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award<\/a> (the world&#8217;s richest children&#8217;s book prize!)\u00a0\u2013 magically, artfully renders on the page. Talk about dynamic duo!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take &#8220;2 is for the duckling who is not so ugly after all&#8221;: that purposefully singular &#8216;ugly duckling&#8217; is actually a small child wearing a silly mask, standing at the front of a boat that gives him that shape similar to his curious aquatic companions; meanwhile the aviary reflections of two ducklings in the water create mirror images of the upside-down numeral 2.<\/p>\n<p>The number 6 also gets reflective representation: &#8220;6 for musketeers alongside their reflections&#8221;\u00a0\u2013 which makes six figures on the page, in addition to the 6ish promontory in the distance, and the six bubbles the swordfish leaves in his wake.<\/p>\n<p>The best comes last with &#8220;10 for a student&#8217;s thoughts lost in daydreams&#8221;; the corresponding illustration you&#8217;ll have to carefully, gratefully explore on your own (no more spoilers!).<\/p>\n<p>Go head, give into curiosity: consider\u00a0<i>Numeralia<\/i>\u00a0as an inspiring investment in your child&#8217;s imagination. Learning numbers was never quite this original.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2006, 2014 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet and counting books are understandably so predictable as to often be interchangeable in their sameness. ABCs and 123s are really immutable &#8230; or are they? 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