White Ravens’99/Brazil (Portuguese)/78527
Göbel, Anna (illus.) 
 Os dez amigos no campo
 (The ten friends in the countryside)
 Belo Horizonte: Formato, 1998. [28pp]
 ISBN 85-7208-205-0
 Counting - Arithmetic - Laughing - Friendship
 On a green meadow under a blue sky boys and girls begin to frolic about, first one, then two, and finally
 nine. They play merrily and laugh about themselves silly, apparently without any reason. The fun, however,
 comes to an abrupt end when the tenth one appears and drives the wild gathering apart with a bad-smelly
 joke. This thin, small-sized picture book introduces the numbers one to ten and simple arithmetic (adding
 and subtracting) in a persuasively simple and enjoyable manner. Anna Göbel’s figures are grotesque
 caricatures in a motley of colors and use expressions and gestures that will make the reader-viewer laugh.
 (A second book on this theme is titled: Os dez amigos no lago). (4+)

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