I See 1, 2, 3: Count Your Community with Sesame Street ®

by Jennifer Boothroyd

Count along with Sesame Street! The Count enlists his friends to demonstrate many ways to forwards, backwards, and by 2s, 5s, and 10s. Elmo and others also present simple addition and subtraction exercises and ordinal numbers in this fun introduction to math concepts. The characters show math being used in common settings, such as counting fruit at the grocery store, which encourages young readers to practice counting during their everyday activities.

Genres: Counting, Nonfiction, Number

32 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 3, 2020

Reviews

[Mesa Library · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here’s a great non-fiction picture book gem for building math skills and teaching children to problem-solve. I See 1, 2, 3: Count Your Community with Sesame Street brings fun and active learning to life. Sesame Street characters illustrate math concepts in common surroundings; the grocery store, the playground, or just walking down the street. The bright pictures present simple math concepts such as addition, subtraction, more and fewer. In pure Sesame Street fashion, math and problem solving become fun and inventive. Elmo prompts readers to count the number of different colors used when drawing with crayons. Zoe likes to read books and look at the pictures, but also counts the pages of her books. Everyday activities turn math concepts into games that kids will enjoy and want to practice over and over.

- Michele S.

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Like all things Sesame Street, this is likely to be appealing to your child. It has some of the favorite characters teaching how to count. So of course, you will see the Count. Fun book.

[Rose Rosetree · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sesame Street charm lights up this practical encouragement to start counting, counting, counting. And do it everywhere you go.

When you think of Sesame Street, do you think of it as a place where you can have fun just by counting?

Well, this entertaining, educational book just might convince you. Ways to count, presented gleefully here, include:

- Counting forwards
- Counting backwards
- Counting in the sense of doing addition
- Counting in the sense of doing subtraction
- And much, much more.

Emotionally it helps to make math friendlier, having friends from this neighborhood like Elmo and the Count add their gently funny encouragement.

FIVE STARS. And congrats to the lucky kids who venture into this Sesame Street counting adventure.

[Stephanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

3 year old is a fan

It teaches counting (forwards and backwards) and math language (lesser, fewer, first, second third) It tried to do addition and subtraction but my kiddo didn't understand the purpose of those pages.

Photographs are colorful and look like they are straight off of set.

[Jenn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Covers a lot of ground in math learning but at the appropriate pace for the audience.

[Miss Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

The Sesame Street is practicing their counting with all kinds of things you might see around you. Preschool and up

[D Fichera · Rating 3 out of 5]

Near way to count. A bit advanced for my kiddo with counting by 2, 5 and 10. Good intro though.

[Amberdenise Puckett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very cute book. Great way to show things to count in your neighborhood. But a little long for storytime.

[Kate Beger · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can’t wait to reread this with my granddaughter next year!

[Miss Janis the Storytime Lady · Rating 2 out of 5]

might be a better outreach book? I dunno. just didn't really work well.

[Blair · Rating 3 out of 5]

Can’t go wrong with Elmo and Big Bird! A good book for kindergartens to read and learn.