The Pear Tree: An Animal Counting Book

by Meredith Hooper

This richly colored book presents an original way to learn the months and numbers, based on the words of the Christmas carol The Twelve Days of Christmas. It takes the reader through the year, showing animals to count on each page and teaching what these animals do during each season of the year.

26 pages, Paperback

First published January 22, 1999

About the author

Meredith Hooper uses the storybook form in Who Built the Pyramid? to make the latest research accessible for a young audience. Meredith Hooper is an historian by training and the author of many books, ranging in subject from Antarctica to aviation, from the history of water to the history of inventions.
Hooper, born in 1939, graduated in history from the University of Adelaide, then studied imperial history at Oxford.

Reviews

[Christina Reid · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this up in a local second-hand bookshop originally attracted by the illustrations and then persuaded to buy it because it is a lovely animal counting book, with the pear tree represented in every month of the year and lots of living things to be found in each picture. This would be a lovely book to read-aloud and explore with a young child, with the interactive element of finding the living creatures making it engaging as well as educating children about the different seasons and the importance of appreciating nature.