Sidney the Silly Who Only Eats 6

Gumboot Books 2007
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Six year old King Sidney will eat only 6 of everything, though the palace chef, Brolly from Brixes, tempts him with delicious 4s, 1s and even 600s. When the beleaguered chef finally quits, Sidney learns to divide his food into portions – and also to compromise.

The concept of number grows out of ideas about relationships
between quantities. This book on number and comparison won the 2007 Connecticut Press Club Communication Award for best children’s book.

“Penn’s creative use of rhyme and number is a model of how to help the young child begin the demanding tasks of mastering literacy and numeracy.” – Dr. Edward Zigler, founder of the Zigler Institute of Child Development at Yale University and the ‘father’ of the Head Start program