Neither the picture-book medium nor the Numberlys app is as well-served as each deserves.Ī confused squirrel overreacts to the falling autumn leaves. Much of the book requires turning pages vertically as if opening a calendar, matching the tall cityscape but making shared reading awkward. But the visual richness isn’t matched by the insubstantial plot, and suggesting that numbers aren’t beautiful or that the sole source of color and fun is our alphabet seems trite and misguided. The opportunity to look more closely at the Numberlys’ world is definitely an attraction. Young readers-and significant adults-frequently look for books to extend screen-based story experiences.
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Numbers disappear altogether the world transforms to full color. Upon completion of the Z, the letters, bright with color, form the words of new, appealing ideas (“jellybeans,” “yellow,” “pizza”), even names. A vast, somber art deco metropolis rendered in straight lines and monochromatic grays and browns houses a world of numbers and gears: “verything added up.” Five little beings, sporting round eyes and round heads (some with antennae), want “MORE.” They design and manufacture a familiar, Western alphabet from the forms of numbers. Joyce and Ellis’ Moonbot Studios fable about an evolution in thinking loses something in the translation from tablet to print, despite its 50-plus–page length. A successful app makes a transition to print.
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