Tana Hoban

White illustrations against a black background, alternating with black illustrations against a white background, depicting objects such as an elephant, butterfly, leaf, horse, baby bottle, and sailboat.

Illustrations and brief text introduce colors and the concepts of shape, quantity, and direction.

Photographs of familiar outdoor scenes illustrate pairs of opposites.

The geometric concepts of circles and squares are shown in photographs of wheels, signs, pots, and other familiar objects.

Photographs of familiar objects such as a chair, barrettes, and a manhole cover introduce shapes.

Photographs demonstrate the spatial concepts expressed in twelve words such as around, across, between, against, and behind.

Photographs of all kinds of familiar objects depict a variety of shapes, including cubes, cones, and spheres.

Full-color nature photographs are first viewed through a cut-out hole and then in their entirety.

Photographs and dots introduce the numbers one to one hundred.

Follows in verse and photographs a young rabbit's search for his own Easter basket.