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• Commended for Resource Links The Year's Best 2017 (Canada)

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This gentle, soothing counting book is just the ticket for lulling babies to slumber&#8230The lovely mixed-media artwork, done in rich earth tones, is textured and expressive. This is the stuff of sweet dreams! -- (06/27/2017) Working up to 10, Walters counts [baby animals] in soft prose&#8230Bisaillon uses pencils, watercolors, pastels, and other media to create lovely, gently textured collages&#8230The images exude an almost palpable sense of security and comfort. --Publishers Weekly (09/12/2017) Soothing descriptions of bedtime rituals [and] pastoral illustrations. --Canadian Children's Book News (10/20/2017) This counting primer board book is a delightful celebration of babies settling down to sleep&#8230The text is lyrical and soothing&#8230The illustrations are delightfully whimsical and the colour palette used conjures a soothing twilight without being too dark and moody&#8230Highly recommended as a resource for young Preschool children. --Resource Links (10/23/2017) All the illustrations are so calming and restful making this a perfect bedtime story choice. An enchanting book. -- (11/14/2017) Exquisite artwork and charming baby animals teach children to count from one to 10 while easing them toward sleep&#8230There is an elegant flow to author Walters' text that is gracefully complemented in the lovely renderings by artist Bisaillon. The images blend cut paper, pastels, watercolors, pencils, and digital imaging to an effect at once striking and soothing. An exceptional bedtime delight that instruct as it composes restless little ones for slumber. -- (11/29/2017) &quotThis is a fun board book that explores numbers as well as baby animals living on a farm. The pictures are soft and comforting. The story is simple and sweet. -- (03/15/2018)

Soothing descriptions of bedtime rituals [and] pastoral illustrations. --Canadian Children's Book News (10/20/2017) All the illustrations are so calming and restful making this a perfect bedtime story choice. An enchanting book. -- (11/14/2017) This gentle, soothing counting book is just the ticket for lulling babies to slumber&#8230The lovely mixed-media artwork, done in rich earth tones, is textured and expressive. This is the stuff of sweet dreams! -- (06/27/2017) Working up to 10, Walters counts [baby animals] in soft prose&#8230Bisaillon uses pencils, watercolors, pastels, and other media to create lovely, gently textured collages&#8230The images exude an almost palpable sense of security and comfort. --Publishers Weekly (09/12/2017) This counting primer board book is a delightful celebration of babies settling down to sleep&#8230The text is lyrical and soothing&#8230The illustrations are delightfully whimsical and the colour palette used conjures a soothing twilight without being too dark and moody&#8230Highly recommended as a resource for young Preschool children. --Resource Links (10/23/2017) Exquisite artwork and charming baby animals teach children to count from one to 10 while easing them toward sleep&#8230There is an elegant flow to author Walters' text that is gracefully complemented in the lovely renderings by artist Bisaillon. The images blend cut paper, pastels, watercolors, pencils, and digital imaging to an effect at once striking and soothing. An exceptional bedtime delight that instruct as it composes restless little ones for slumber. -- (11/29/2017) &quotThis is a fun board book that explores numbers as well as baby animals living on a farm. The pictures are soft and comforting. The story is simple and sweet. -- (03/15/2018)

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Eric Walters is a Member of the Order of Canada and the author of over 125 books that have collectively won more than 100 awards including the Governor General's Literary Award for The King of Jam Sandwiches. A former teacher, Eric began writing as a way to get his fifth-grade students interested in reading and writing. Eric is a tireless presenter, speaking to over 100,000 students per year in schools across the country. He lives in Guelph, Ontario. Josée Bisaillon has illustrated more than twenty-five children's books, created numerous editorial illustrations for magazines and newspapers. She has been short-listed twice for the Governor General's Literary Award, and she won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award for The Snow Knows. She lives outside Montreal with her family.

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