Author and Illustrator: Paul Galdone
Genre: Traditional
Summary: Children will love this delightfully bright and cheery counting story about meadow animals, which also can be sung in a song. The story is about meadow animal mothers and their babies and each new page has an additional baby to count. The stanzas rhyme and the text supplies the number, number word and animals that can be counted individually, to really reinforce the numbers one through ten. The fact that the story can be sung will help enable the children to remember the words and enjoy the story even more.
Characters: The characters are animal mothers and their babies and all appear happy and loved, which children will really enjoy. The animals will be easily recognized and they are shown in their correct habitats.
Age Level : This story is appropriate for the very young, children from three to six or seven. The younger children will enjoy it read to them, the older children can read it themselves. The rhyming stanzas will make pleasant and manageable reading for the new reader.
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