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K-Gr 3—In this large, mostly vertical picture book, the numberlys are tiny folks living in a black-and-white futuristic metropolis. Its buildings appear especially tall as the pages here often rotate the layout—readers must move the book a quarter turn so that the left-hand side tops a view spilling down the double page. The spare text and many wordless pages tell of a time when there were only numbers and no alphabet: "Everyone liked numbers. They had nice shapes and kept things in order. And everything added up…So life was sort of…numberly." Long, tidy rows of the little inhabitants, whose head antennae ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In a land with only numbers and no letters, five friends decide to make a change. Rube Goldberg–like devices help them invent the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More