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Summary: Count to twenty
Review: Jesse Bear is counting everyday things that my son can relate to, rocks, sticks and ice cream cones. The illustrations of Bruce Degan are great. My son and I love to just look at the pictures and name all of the different kinds of balls, sticks and ice cream.
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Summary: a bit confusing for kids learning to count
Review: There are ten poems about a certain subject, but they don't involve counting in the poem. That object is then shown in the illustration in the proper number of items. Each has a phrase "and one more", I guess to try to show addition but the illustrated sets are not grouped accordingly. For example there are 4 bumper cars all grouped together and it says "3 bumper cars and one more are 4". Well if they are going to do that I think there should be a set of 3 then a set of 1 as two separate groupings. I like the sidebar box on each page has the number, the images that total to that number, and the word spelled out for the item and the number. For example, poem about bumper car ride, then says in the box "4 bumper cars, four bumper cars" with illustration of 4 small bumper cars lined up. I like that the word and the number are both shown along with the image of that number objects. The poems rhyme and have a good cadence. The numbers 11 through 20 don't have a poem, just the image of that number of items then the phrase "15 and one more are 16. Sixteen hats" and so on. The only thing that I find confusing is this use of the phrase "and one more" when the illustration doesn't correspond. For example there are 15 balls all grouped together and then it says "14 balls and one more are 15". In another image there are 13 horns then the words "15 and one more are 16" and next to that in another grouping are 3 more horns. If you ask me it should day 13 and 3 more are 16 and in the other images of one large set of items it should simply state there are 15 or however many there really are.
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