Count Your Way Through Greece

By James Haskins

Book Overview

Uses the Greek words for the numbers from one to ten to introduce the land, history, and culture of Greece. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876148755
• ISBN13: 9780876148754
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.3" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 7 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 4

Customer Reviews

Very useful for learning the Greek numeration.

Nice book for introducing the Greek numbers and how to count them. I would recommend.

Mistakes in the Greek detract; otherwise good.

There are some mistakes in the Greek in this book. If you have a Greek speaker who can correct it for you, then it's worth getting; the art and story are worthwhile. But the errors detract from it. Were it not for these errors, I'd have given it five stars. Here are the problems. If you have a copy, you can apply these corrections: 5) The pronunciation of 5, in Modern Greek, is PEHN-deh , not PEHN-teh . 6) The book's pronunciation of "EX-ee" is correct. The spelling is wrong: Six is spelled "'Epsilon Xi Eta", with an accent mark over the Epsilon, not "Epsilon Zeta 'Iota". If you were to try to pronounce the Greek spelling in the book, then you'd say "EH-zee" or "ED-zee" or "EH-gee", all of which are wrong. 8) There are two forms of this number in Modern Greek. They spelled the Demotic (less formal) word for the number eight, but wrote the phonetics for the Katharevousa (more formal) word for the number eight. Further, the spelling they used added a bizarre line on top of the letter Omega at the end. If you want the spelling to match the phonetics, just write in: "Omicron Kappa Tau 'Omega" (with a simple accent mark on top of the Omega). 9) The Pocket Oxford Greek Dictionary (and my own ear, based on numerous conversations in Greek with the parishioners at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Lexington, Massachusetts, and at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Los Angeles), both recommend the following form instead of the one given: "Epsilon Nu Nu 'Epsilon Alpha", pronounced "ehn-NAY-uh".

It's not "Greek" to me anymore.

The cover and title of the book are inviting. The illustrations in the book are outstanding. It is a fun book for all ages, just not 4-8 year olds. This book is a helpful tool to learning and teaching about Greece. I am using the book in my classroom to help my children and myself learn the numbers in Greek and to learn more about Greece. This is a fun number book that not only helps the reader learn the numbers 1-10 in Greek, but the book also gives clear and important information about Greece. My fiance is from Cyprus, an island off of Greece, and this book has helped me learn more about where he is from. I recommend this book to anyone no matter the age. I found the pronunciation guide at the back of the book and throughout the book, extremely helpful. The text was clear enough for children and adults to understand. I feel this book is inciteful in exploring different cultures. I highly advise teachers to buy this book when studying about different parts of the world. Haskins and Benson also have other counting books for many other countries.