Book Descriptions
for Count on Your Fingers African Style by Claudia Zaslavsky and Jerry Pinkney
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Different traditional methods of finger counting used by several groups of people in one West African region even today are demonstrated within the setting of a busy marketplace.
CCBC Choices 1980. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1980. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Describes how finger counting is used for communication of price and quantity in an African market place.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
