Charmingly illustrated by Sophia Touliatou, this picture book takes readers on a colourful tour through the world of numbers, �from one full moon to a hundred twinkling stars. There are number patterns, picture puzzles and lots of extra things to spot along the way. Things to count are grouped together so that children can begin counting, adding and multiplying in concrete terms before moving onto abstract calculations.
Felicity Brooks is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She studied English and Drama at Exeter University and worked as an actor, teacher and lexicographer (someone who compiles dictionaries) before starting work in children’s publishing in the late 1980s.
She has written and edited hundreds of children’s books, including stories and novelty books for pre-schoolers and books about history, geography, languages, science, maths, nature and the arts.
Her books have won the TES Senior Information Book Award, the Aventis Science Books Prize, the SLA Information Book Award, the Sheffield Baby Books Award and Practical Pre-school Gold and Silver Awards.
My 4yo is currently using this book to learn counting by tens. I like that items (beautifully illustrated!) are grouped by 5s or 10s, so we could also learn to count by 5s. You could also introduce early concepts of multiplication. There are plenty of questions like 'Which car would you like to ride in? ' so we could discuss and explore. The last pages are counting sparkly metallic embossed stars, that really capture her interest.
The book counts individually 1-10. Then it counts in groups of 5 then by 10s. Cute illustrations but only a few lines of text. The text that’s present asks questions like “what car is first and which is last?”