Theme: Counting

Hockey 123

By Book Importer | Published: January 18, 2012

What better way to introduce your child to the action-packed world of hockey than through a new series of books aimed at the youngest of hockey fans? This great series introduces essential early concepts through the fun and entertaining world of hockey. Count players, sticks, and Stanley Cups; explore the colours of the rainbow through [...]

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Let’s Count To 100!

By Book Importer | Published: September 26, 2011

Let’s Count to 100! comprises 11 bright panoramas, each featuring a delightful assortment of 100 different objects. Readers are invited to count the items and are also challenged to find specific details, such as a mouse with a red bow or a lone rabbit amid a giant flock of sheep. This book is packed with [...]

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One Sun Rises

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

The varied wild creatures of Africa introduce young readers to the world of numbers and counting, as well as to the diverse landscapes and wildlife of the African continent.

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Ten Birds

By Book Importer | Published: May 3, 2011

Ten birds are trying to figure out how to get to the other side of the river. The bird they call “Brilliant” devises a pair of stilts. The bird they call “Highly Satisfactory” engineers a raft. One by one, nine resourceful birds make the crossing until a single bird is left behind ? the one [...]

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Ten Little Puppies/Diez Perritos

By Book Importer | Published: March 17, 2011

Ten little puppies are lost, one by one, for different reasons, until only one little puppy remains.

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Counting on Snow

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

Maxwell Newhouse, folk artist extraordinaire, has created a unique counting book. The premise is simple. He invites children to count with him from ten crunching caribou down to one lonely moose, by finding other northern animals – from seals to wolves to snowy owls – as they turn the pages. But as the animals appear, [...]

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Way Out in the Desert

By Book Importer | Published: December 7, 2010

A counting book in rhyme presents various desert animals and their children, from a mother horned toad and her little toadie one to a mom tarantula and her little spiders ten. Numerals are hidden in each illustration.

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Dos Años

By Book Importer | Published: December 7, 2010

The idea that hands, feet, eyes, ears, legs, and arms all come in pairs is discovered by two Asian-American toddlers.

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A Piñata in a Pine Tree

By Book Importer | Published: June 25, 2010

An award-winning author and a rising star artist have put a festive Latino twist on “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” populating it with piñatas in place of partridges, plus burritos bailando (dancing donkeys), lunitas cantando (singing moons), and much more, all displayed in the most vivid colors imaginable. In this version a little girl receives [...]

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Juanito Counts to Ten

By Book Importer | Published: June 25, 2010

Juanito loves to count, and what could be more fun than giving and counting kisses! Children’s book author Lee Merrill Byrd was inspired to write Juanito Counts to Ten when she watched her four-year-old grandson Johnny. He was so happy and full of life that he was dishing out kisses to everybody. He kissed his [...]

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