Tuesday, January 21, 2014

1, 2, 3, Read to Me: Counting Books for Young Children

One of the more popular requests we get at the Children's Desk is for counting books.  Here are some of my favorites . . .

Let's Count Goats by Mem Fox
Encourages counting skills with humorous illustrations of goats.

Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Ten mice outsmart a hungry snake.

Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin
Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.

The Right Number of Elephants by Jeff Sheppard
A counting book in which a little girl relies on the help of some eager elephants.

Soup for One by Ethan Long
A little fly who anticipates enjoying a big bowl of hot soup is unexpectedly joined by a sequence of interlopers who help themselves to his lunch one by one until their number reaches ten.

Ten Terrible Dinosaurs by Paul Stickland
One by one, ten dinosaurs at play become fewer and fewer as various things happen to them.

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