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Ten Flashing Fireflies

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Lyrical, expressive, varied, and excellent for reading out loud.
– School Library Journal, starred review

Counting down from ten to one, a girl and a boy empty the night sky of fireflies as — counting up from one to ten — they fill their jar with them. But once captured, the fireflies’ light flickers and fades, so in a generous good-night gesture, the children release them.

Luminous pictures and a chant-aloud text combine to make this two-way counting book as joyous and magical as catching fireflies on a summer night.

A book quietly luminous as its subject.
– Kirkus Reviews

Elegant mathematical simplicity and careful rhyme, illustrated in keeping with its nocturnal theme and bedtime role.
– NAPPA Awards

National Parenting Publications Awards, Gold Medal, 1995
Smithsonian Magazine Notable Books for Children, 1995
Booklinks Salutes a Few Good Books, 1995
American Bookseller Pick of the Lists

ISBN-13: 9781558586741

Media Type: Paperback(REPRINT)

Publisher: NorthSouth Books

Publication Date: 03-01-1997

Pages: 32

Product Dimensions: 8.67(w) x 9.78(h) x 0.20(d)

Age Range: 3 - 6 Years

Series: Leveled Books

Philemon Sturges was an architect and the author of several books for children, including ""I Love Trains!, I Love Trucks!, I Love Planes!, I Love School!, "" and ""I Love Bugs!"" Anna Vojtech has illustrated numerous books for children, mostly folktales and stories about nature. Nature has always been a strong source of inspiration for Anna. Her pictures are full of flowers and animals, of giraffes and elephants, of little bi