Counting creatures

Title:

Counting creatures

Author:

Summary:

"From a bat and its pup, to a frog and its twelve tadpoles, young readers will delight in counting each creature's babies and learning unusual scientific names for young animals. With rhyming text, lift-the-flaps and peekaboo holes, and a surprise search-and-find element, this is a read-aloud delight and preschool must-have." -- Amazon.com.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Genre:

Picture books.

Toy and movable books.

Subject Term:

Animals -- Juvenile fiction.

Counting -- Juvenile fiction.

Author(s):

King-Chai, Sharon,

Publisher:

Dial Books for Young Readers,

Publication Date:

2020

ISBN:

9780593324530

Publication Information:

New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2020.

Call Number:

P DONALDSON

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607003605303	New Picture Books	DONALDSON	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

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Summary

A gorgeous lift-the-flap counting book that pairs parent animals with their babies, from the bestselling author of Room on the Broom .

From a bat and its pup, to a frog and its twelve tadpoles, young readers will delight in counting each creature's babies and learning unusual scientific names for young animals. With rhyming text, lift-the-flaps and peekaboo holes, and a surprise search-and-find element, this is a read-aloud delight and preschool must-have.

* "Engaging, rewarding, and utterly delightful."-- Kirkus , starred review
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Author Notes

Julia Catherine Donaldson was born on Sept. 16, 1948 in London. She is a British writer and playwright and the 2011-2013 Children's Laureate. She is known for her rhyming stories for children. These include: The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and Stick Man. She began writing songs for children's television but has focused on writing books when the words of one of her songs - A Squash and a Squeeze were made into a children's book in 1993. She has over 180 published works with 120 of them intended for school use and include her Songbirds phonic reading scheme, which is part of the Oxfird Reading Tree.

She has won several awards including: The Stockport Book Award for her title The Troll, The Oxfordshire Book Award for her title Zog and The Oldham Book Award for her title Jack and the Flumflum Tree. In 2015 The Gruffalo made The New Zealand Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Donaldson and King-Chai's animal-themed counting book marches readers through a menagerie of families, including bats, leopards, and potbelly pigs. Featuring flaps for lifting, spreads present animals with their countable young, described in rhythmic language ("This arctic hare has.../ 7 leverets./ Running and jumping./ Little legs thumping") and ending with the repeated refrain, "Who has more babies than that?" The groups represent numbers one to 10, then jump up by fives all the way to 30, where the final spread invites readers to count a spider parent's spiderlings, which are scattered throughout the book. King-Chai's energetic illustrations, shot through with acid yellow, electric blue, and shocking pink, layer textures to depict brush-stroked owl wings, splotchy tadpoles, ink-spot flowers, and spattered horizon lines. Ages 3--5. (Nov.)