Counting

by Dave King (Photographer)

One hundred teddy bears have been invited to a party. Can you find them all on the page? "The Counting Book," a companion title to "The Alphabet Book," DK's successful ABC picture-puzzle book, gives the same search-and-find visual treatment to numbers - Every page has a different story to tell. From one baby celebrating her first birthday to 1,000 odds and ends-the photographic fun on each page means kids just won't want to stop counting - Riddles, questions, and picture-puzzles on each page teach 3-7 year olds numbers from 1 to 1,000.- Eight puppies playing, 10 toes wiggling, 70 bugs crawling-how many numbers can you find?

First published September 15, 1998

About the author

Dave King holds a BFA in painting
and film from Cooper Union and an MFA in writing from Columbia University. King's debut novel, The Ha-Ha, was named one of the best books of 2005 by The Christian Science Monitor and The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and was among eighteen books included on The Washington Post list of the season's best novels. The Ha-Ha was a finalist for Book-of-the-Month Club's "Best Literary Fiction" award and the Quills Foundation "Best Debut Author" award and won King a 2006-07 Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

King's poetry has been published in The Paris Review, among other venues, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has taught English at Baruch College and cultural studies and poetry at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and he divides his time between Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley of New York.

The Ha-Ha is currently in development from Warner Brothers Pictures, with Tod Williams slated to direct. The book has also found success in several foreign language editions, with more forthcoming.