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About 3x4: TOON Level 1
Product Description Annemarie and her clever classmates have to draw sets of twelve and use their imagination to come up with creative solutions. Young readers will delight in the counting game while learning the basics of multiplication. Star cartoonist Ivan Brunetti’s ingenious and fun-to-read comic turns everyone into a math whiz! From School Library Journal K-Gr 2-Annemarie and her classmates, who readers met in Brunetti's Wordplay, are back with a new homework assignment. They need to draw 12 things but in sets. Three sets of four? Four sets of 3? Two sets of 6? It's entirely up to them. The students (and there are, of course, 12 of them) each find an ingenious way to draw 12 of their favorite things as they create art and also begin learning the basics of multiplication. This is a charming beginning reader graphic novel. The art features colorful backgrounds and ethnically diverse characters, rendered with eye-catching crisp lines and basic shapes. The panels alternate between full-page and four-panel pages, chock-full of hidden sets of threes that children will have fun finding, counting, and sorting, all without realizing that they are learning math. The action moves forward smoothly, and the word bubbles are well positioned, with black text and numbers highlighted in color. As with all of the publisher's works, this title ends with tips for reading comics with kids and includes grade suggestions and reading levels. Brunetti's second volume is a lovely graphic story that teaches a simple concept in a most engaging way and will be snapped up by fans and newcomers alike. VERDICT Another winner for beginning readers.Kelley Gile, Cheshire Public Library, CT(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. Review "So exemplary an execution of a simple concept that it can be read multiple ways―as multiplication, counting, sorting―without sacrificing fun." Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW "Brunetti’s second volume is a lovely graphic story that teaches a simple concept in a most engaging way and will be snapped up by fans and newcomers alike. VERDICT: Another winner for beginning readers." School Library Journal STARRED REVIEW "As the characters work through the multiplication concept on their own terms, readers are sure to arrive at a clearer understanding." Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW "The premise may seem simple, but Brunetti gives it plenty of depth. This entertaining, playful concept book teems with charm." Booklist "There are so many different ways to make a dozen, and so many interests these kids have! A wonderful book to get kids interested in both math and art." Comics Worth Reading "Diverse characters at school and at home, delightful stylized illustrations in bright colors, and easy to read text make this an appealing title for new readers." Youth Services Book Review Rob Clough analyzes what makes 3x4 such an effective teaching tool at High Low Comics: Right on the cover, Brunetti explains the basics of multiplication with the book's star, Annemarie, headlining three different rows but also being part of four different columns of images. The book hammers home the conceptual quality of multiplication, as a number that adds up items in rows and columns. The book itself is about a classroom assignment regarding multiplication, as Brunetti doubles down again and again to keep the focus on the fundamentals established at the start. He carefully breaks down various kinds of sets in a running gag, making it easy to remember. Brunetti keeps the background colors muted so as not to interfere with the objects on each page. They're crucial because Brunetti has to highlight those in order get the concept across to young readers. Brunetti also has a slow build-up of kids trying to one-up each other with the assignment, with Annemarie emerging with the most ambitious drawing of all. A nice side note regarding the book is how many of the characters
