{"id":340,"date":"2011-11-05T11:45:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T10:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?page_id=340"},"modified":"2013-10-16T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T20:35:05","slug":"dots-in-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/dots-in-books","title":{"rendered":"Dots in Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a riff on the Institutes’<\/a> Bits of Intelligence and How to Teach Your Baby Math<\/a> programs, inspired by Joseph’s joy in looking at those dots and in reading books with simply an object and its name, I have published a few books at Blurb.\u00c2\u00a0 They all follow the same basic design principle: Numeral and text in four languages on the left, dots on the right.\u00c2\u00a0 This is what it looks like:<\/p>\n

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\n(The orange frame will not appear in the actual book; it’s from the editing program to show me that page is active.)<\/p>\n

I’ve published three versions:
\none, full-length, with dots from zero to one hundred<\/a> – hardback, the one I’ve also ordered for us;
\none, mid-length, with dots from zero to fifty and the tens up to one hundred<\/a> – hardback, as well, and a bit cheaper;
\none, short, with dots from zero to twenty and the tens up to one hundred<\/a> – softcover, for the cost-conscious crowd.
\nI’ll post more here as soon as I know how Joseph likes them and what I think of the paper quality, and of course I’d welcome your feedback, too!<\/p>\n

<\/a>Update November 21, 2011: Joseph loves the book and will pick it out of his book collection frequently. The cover is a sturdy cardboard, which protects the pages from accidental abuse. Although Joseph can handle the pages most of the time, their thickness is perhaps almost borderline for a 17-month-old. Here’s Joseph having fun with his dots counting book<\/a>:
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