Count Your Way Through Russia (Count Your Way)

Count Your Way Through Russia is a cute look at how to count from one to ten in Russian that also imparts little bits of knowledge about Russia and its people. Each number is given its numeric symbol, the word for the number in Russian and a pronunciation guide. Additionally, there is about a

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paragraph on each page...the book tells us there is one Kremlin, you need two snow shoes in winter, that you need five people to dance the Preplyas (pare-ush-plee-us) and so on. Unfortunately the book also has a few errors. There is an introductory blurb explaining that Russia is one of 15 republics that make up the U.S.S.R., which is no longer true. This may have been corrected in later printings, but it's still in the copy I got from my local library. Additionally, the first page, for number one...there isn't one ONLY Kremlin, there are two. The second being a white brick structure located in the Tartar capital and really, at one time the Kremlin's were quite common, but made out of wood, so many no longer exist today. I could only see my way to giving this book 3 stars because of the errors, though the first may simply be due to an out of date printing of the book. Overall, it's a cute way to introduce numbers in another language, because you get the numbers AND a wealth of information about the country and it's culture to go along with the numbers!

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