Leaf Thief: 1, 2, 3, Can You Count Along?

by Alice Hemming, Nicola Slater (Illustrator)

10 pages, Board Book

Published February 3, 2026

About the author

Alice Hemming is the author of over fifty books for children, including the bestselling Dark Unicorns series (Scholastic), and picture book, The Leaf Thief with illustrator Nicola Slater (Scholastic 2020), which has sold across the world and been translated into nineteen languages. Alice lives in Hertfordshire, UK with her husband and two children, and works in a writing shed at the top of her garden.

Reviews

[Becky · Rating 4 out of 5]

First sentence: Tap, tap, tap! "What's the strange sound coming from that tree, Bird?" "Maybe it's one of our friends, Squirrel. Let's take a look..."

Premise/plot: Count along with Squirrel.

My thoughts: I am not familiar--or if I am I've completely forgotten--with the "Leaf Thief" series of books. I'm going to go out on a limb (pun intended) that they may be better than this one. Squirrel hears plenty of things and does some counting--one to five.

Counting books aren't particularly ever going to be full of thrills. This one was fine.