The Count

Sesame Street Friends

by Andrea Posner-Sanchez, Random House (Illustrator)

Meet the Count from Sesame Street in this adorable photographic book!

Learn all about the Count in a new Sesame Street board book with bold, bright photographs. Babies and toddlers will love turning each sturdy page to see what Count von Count decides to count, with help from Elmo and other friends. That's 1--1 red furry friend! Ah, ah, ah! Other titles in the series are Elmo, Cookie, Abby, Big Bird, and Oscar.

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, aims to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder through its many unique domestic and international initiatives. These projects cover a wide array of topics for families around the world. Sesame Street is the most trusted name in early learning.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Juvenile, Number

26 pages, Board Book

Published June 30, 2020

Reviews

[Miranda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Isaac is OBSESSED. We can't read this book without reading it 4 times or more in a sitting. We read it EVERY. DAY. Every nap time. Every bedtime.

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

A very demanding small child had me read this to him multiple times. I am surprised that he kept returning to it, because the narrative felt poorly crafted. Why does the Count count bats, and then penguins, candles and beach balls? Where is he that all of those objects are present, and in need of being tallied?

He then further references counting farm animals (e.g. chickens) with other Sesame Street residents, but it is unclear why one would have a farm that has both chickens and penguins - not even to mention the bat pajamas that are at one point haphazardly referenced.

Ultimately the Count makes a big show of how counting making him happy… but he never even counts past four in the book. Like, if it makes you that happy, I think you could at least get to eight.

The whole thing feels half baked.

[Beckie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute counting book.

[Rhoda · Rating 5 out of 5]

This has to be our favorite in the whole series of board books! I think she thinks the count is her grandpa, because of the accent lol, so we read her the book in the accent! She loves it. Has been flipping through it every night before bed.

[CC's Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Sesame Street friends series is a favorite of Silly Bear, and of all the Sesame Street friends, she likes The Count the best. It bothers Mommy that when you count the items on the pages, they don't increase sequentially between pages.

[Leslie · Rating 4 out of 5]

So many things to count. I especially love The Count's bat pajamas!

[Meredith · Rating 3 out of 5]

This board book introduces the character The Count from the children’s television program "Sesame Street."

[Robin Obara · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one was a bit better than others in the series since it had some counting skills.

[TJE · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really likes this book. Asked for a book with the Count after going to The Count Breakfast at Sea World. Read again and again, loves hearing it read in his voice. Cute book but not 5 stars.

[Gia Bittner · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like to count, and Count counts a lot in this book!

[Carm · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book series is so sweet! A dear friend bought us the elmo book and somehow we have ALL of them now. Between Elmo and the Count, we read those two easily 100 times each and then needed to have a few other books in the rotation.

The count book is top tier honestly. In addition to counting and having fun, the count is just an amazing, under utilized character! Our toddler fell in love with the count and had to watch him on repeat for MONTHS so this book was our go to. Honestly, there are not many count books in print these days and he was our favorite. I recommend this book!