The Numbers Dance, A Counting Comedy

Author: Josephine Nobisso

Illustrator: Dasha Ziborova

Trim Size: w 8 ¾" × h 11 ¾" w/ Dust Jacket (hardcover only)

Pages: 32, Full Color Illustrations

Ages: All (A "Cross-over" Picture Book for Both Children and Adults)

Paperback ISBN: 0-940112-12-4

Paperback Price: 17.95

Awards and Citations
An International Reading Association-Children's Book Council "Children's Choices" Award Winner
ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award Finalist
An ABA Book Sense "Pick of the Lists"
Named to the "2005 Best Books for Children List" by the Association of Booksellers for Children
Shortlisted for the New York Library Association's "Book of the Season, Fall 2005"
Missouri State Teachers Association Reading Circle

Reviews
"In an elegantly designed cousin to Bill Martin's Chica Chica 1,2,3 (2004), illustrated by Louis Ehlert, the numbers one to ten collide while trying to dance in different styles, creating chaos on the floor. Ziborova illustrates the melee- '1 gets knocked. / 2 gets socked. / 3 gets blocked. / With 4 who's rocked. / Even 5 and 6 feel shock, / Finding themselves in a strange headlock' -with digitally reworked collages featuring big digits in different colors and typefaces tumbling across abstract fields of patterned fabric, printed papers and white space. The visuals work with the text's changing cadences to capture the wild confusion, if not a sense of what the dances actually look like, and harmony of a sort, is restored at the end as all ten find ways to 'Dance their OWN styles-like they want to-again.'... Attention filmmakers!" -Kirkus Reviews

Humourous hi-jinks prove the not-to-be-trifled-with concept that numbers are fun (and that a number convinced against its will is of the same opinion, still!)