New Releases by Mitsumasa Anno

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

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

Discusses how medieval people viewed the world before it was widely understood and accepted that the world is round and rotates around the sun.

A king discovers that bigger is not always better.

Fijnzinnig prentenboek zonder woorden, waarin een ruiter te paard een reis maakt door verschillelde landen in Zuid-Europa, waarvan typerende byzonderheden om grappige details in de illustraties zijn verwerkt.

Records in drawings the author''s journey through northern Europe and his impressions of the land, the people at work and play, and their art, architecture, folklore, and fairy tales.

Scenes of Italian daily life of the past and present are interwoven with the theme of the life of Christ as depicted in famous Italian religious paintings.

Vrijwel tekstloos prentenboek met duidelijke, kleurige afbeeldingen van een dorp. Op iedere nieuwe bladzijde is weer meer te zien en te tellen aan huizen, mensen, bomen en dieren. Leeftijd: 5-7 jaar.

Prentenboek zonder woorden waarin een ruiter te paard een reis maakt door verschillende Europese landen, waarvan de typerende bijzonderheden op speelse wijze in de illustraties zijn verwerkt. Voor de leeftijd van ca. 6 jaar.

Every child is a natural mathematician, according to Mitsumasa Anno. Children start to count long before they learn their ABC''s, for they 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. In this book, Mitsumasa Anno, 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. 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. Just as our forebears developed our number system from observing the order of nature, 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.

Each letter of the alphabet accompanies a full-page picture puzzle of an object whose name begins with that letter: anvil, bicycle, etc.

When the clocks strike twelve, the magical midnight circus begins. Pepe the clown will show you the way, but hurry--the circus vanishes at dawn.