Synopses & Reviews
"Jump zebras! Stretch, giraffes! Wiggle, worms! Count, children!"
Why should children have to sit still while they learn? In this book, toddlers can count from one to ten while they wiggle with the worms, jump with the zebras, and stretch with the giraffes. Older children may want to keep on counting, by ones or tens, until the last of fifty bees flies by. But even then young tots won't feel left out--they can leap with the frogs or wave good-bye to the bees.
Simple enough for the youngest child at home, yet challenging enough for older siblings in school, this book is as energetic as the children it's meant for.
Review
"The substance here is traditional--numbers from one to ten introduced with animals to count; the idea extended tens to 50--but the presentation is outstanding. . . . Fashioned with care, intelligence, and artistry--a delight."--
Kirkus (pointer)
"The resounding vitality and immediacy of this selection turn a counting lesson into an exhilarating experience." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
"A fresh, upbeat concept book. . . . Very bright, very hip!"--School Library Journal (starred review)
Review
"The substance here is traditional-numbers from one to ten introduced with animals to count; the idea extended with tens to 50-but the presentation is outstanding....Fashioned with care, intelligence, and artistry-a delight." --
Kirkus Reviews, pointer
"A fresh, upbeat concept book...Very bright, very hip!" --School Library Journal, starred review
"The resounding vitality and immediacy of this selection turn a counting lesson into an exhilarating experience." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
Review
"A fresh, upbeat concept book. Very bright, very hip!"--
School Library Journal, starred review
"The resounding vitality and immediacy of this selection turn a counting lesson into an exhilarating experience." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
Synopsis
Count! by the author and illustrator of the 1994 Caldecott Honor Book
In the Small, Small Pond. Synopsis
Kids can wiggle with the worms and jump with zebras as they learn to count from one to ten with their animal friends.
About the Author
Denise Fleming has written and illustrated many childrens books, including In the Tall, Tall Grass, Shout! Shout It Out!, and Sleepy, Oh So Sleepy. She won a Caldecott Honor for In the Small, Small Pond. Denise published her first painting in the third grade, when she started taking classes at the Toledo Museum of Art and one of her paintings was chosen to be the cover of a teachers magazine. She now works primarily with paper, by pouring colored paper pulp through hand-cut stencils. She lives in Toledo, Ohio.