Counting Race: Ready-to-Read Level 1
By (Author) Margaret McNamara
Illustrated by Mike Gordon
Simon & Schuster
Simon Spotlight
15th September 2003
United States
Children
Fiction
Educational: First / native language: Readers and reading schemes
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
Paperback
32
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 5mm
64g
Level 1: Starting to Read
Simple stories
Increased vocabulary
Longer sentences
Mrs. Connor's first-grade class is having a counting race! They're trying to count from one to ten in less than a second. But no one is fast enough to get all the way to ten before time is up. That is, until the first graders work together to come up with a faster way to count!
Margaret McNamara is the author of the Robin Hill School series, and she gets many ideas from her daughters own school experiences. She lives in New York City.
Mike Gordon illustrates the Robin Hill School series and has an extensive and varied background in illustration and design. He lives with his family in Santa Barbara, California.