Overview

One seal pup, two polar bear cubs, three lambs - here's an adorable collection of baby animals with their mothers, counting up from one to ten, from all over the world and in all kinds of weather. Lucy Coats's catchy verses match with Emily Bolam's brilliantly colourful graphics to make a counting book that's really fun for small children to follow.

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''a counting book that's fun for the youngest of children'One for mums and dads to enjoy along with their youngsters.' - Birmingham Evening Mail, 28 May 2002 'Bright pictures, animal noises and a happy poem which romps and bounces through weather weather that is damp and drippy, whoshy and windy, hot and hazy. This is the sort of book a child will hold up for you to read again and again, and one I wouldn't mind reading a hundred times.' - Mail on Sunday 'If you're looking for a book with several different themes that will make you want to come back to it again and again, this may be it. There's lots of colourful, descriptive language in the rhyming verses and appealing pictures.' - Nursery World 'Full of simple, playful poems about animal families, this new hardback will give lots of fun to your toddler'a very easy introduction to simple counting.' - New Baby 'A lively picture book that encourages counting skills as well as exploring different animal habitats and the weather. From jumping joeys in the Australian outback, to spring lambs on a sunny day, this thoughtful book provides ample fodder for conversation and heaps of educational potential.' - Junior Magazine ''packed with rhyme and wonderful words'A terffific book to read aloud as the words are full of the sounds that children love, words that will help them develop an ear for language and be ready to move

With a rhyme constructed along the lines of Over in the Meadow and big, very simple paintings, Coats takes toddlers and post-toddlers on a tour of animal families in various climes. From a mother seal and her one pup, 'Dive!' Says the mother / so they both dive together to a croaking mother frog and her ten squirmy wormy tadpoles each group's activity takes place in stormy stormy weather or rainy rainy weather, etc. There are a few glitches in this import's language, including references to a cold and draughty house and a clan of kittens all along the strawstacks -but children will enjoy the text's pleasing sonority, and crowd around at the author's invitation to Count the mums and babies up / In every kind of weather! (Picture book. 3-5) (Kirkus Reviews)

This cleverly constructed baby animal counting book gives practice in identifying the numbers from one to ten and in naming mothers and babies, from cats and kittens to kangaroos and joeys. The colourful and heart-warming illustrations will delight young readers as they are transported all around the world to find families together in every kind of weather. Rhyming text with lovely onomatopoeic sounds extends the action word vocabulary and provides plenty of scope for reader participation. Long after the counting aspect has become familiar this book will continue to provide a rich source of discovery and delight for parent and child. Ages 2-4 (Kirkus UK)

Bright pictures, animal noises and a happy poem which romps and bounces through weather weather that is damp and drippy, whoshy and windy, hot and hazy.This is the sort of book a child will hold up for you to read again and again, and one I wouldn't mind reading a hundred times. DAILY MAIL If you're looking for a book with several different themes that will make you want to come back to it again and again, this may be it. There's lots of colourful, descriptive language in the rhyming verses and appealing pictures. NURSERY WORLD Full of simple, playful poems about animal families, this new hardback willgive lots of fun to your toddler...a very easy introduction to simple counting. NEW BABY ...packed with rhyme and wonderful words...A terffific book toread aloud as the words are full of the sounds that children love, words that will help them develop an ear for language and be ready to move on into reading BOOKTRUSTED A lively picture book that encourages counting skills as well as exploring different animal habitats and the weather. From jumping joeys in the Australian outback, to spring lambs on a sunny day, this thoughtful book provides ample fodder for conversation and heaps of educational potential. JUNIOR ...a counting book that's fun for the youngest of children...One for mums and dads to enjoy along with their youngsters. BIRMINGHAM EVENING MAIL This bright counting book will be attractive to the very youngest readers...There is a delight in language play and rhythm here that children will relish. SCHOOL LIBRARIAN

''a counting book that's fun for the youngest of children'One for mums and dads to enjoy along with their youngsters.' - Birmingham Evening Mail, 28 May 2002 'Bright pictures, animal noises and a happy poem which romps and bounces through weather weather that is damp and drippy, whoshy and windy, hot and hazy. This is the sort of book a child will hold up for you to read again and again, and one I wouldn't mind reading a hundred times.' - Mail on Sunday 'If you're looking for a book with several different themes that will make you want to come back to it again and again, this may be it. There's lots of colourful, descriptive language in the rhyming verses and appealing pictures.' - Nursery World 'Full of simple, playful poems about animal families, this new hardback will give lots of fun to your toddler'a very easy introduction to simple counting.' - New Baby 'A lively picture book that encourages counting skills as well as exploring different animal habitats and the weather. From jumping joeys in the Australian outback, to spring lambs on a sunny day, this thoughtful book provides ample fodder for conversation and heaps of educational potential.' - Junior Magazine ''packed with rhyme and wonderful words'A terffific book to read aloud as the words are full of the sounds that children love, words that will help them develop an ear for language and be ready to move

Author Information

Lucy Coats is the author of ATTICUS THE STORYTELLER'S 100 GREEK MYTHS as well as of books of verse for children and picture book texts. She was an editor of children's books before she started writing her own. Emily Bolam trained at Brighton Art College and is a very successful illustrator of children's books. Her most recent for Orion is THE THREE LITTLE WITCHES' STORYBOOK by Georgie Adams. She lives and works in Brighton.

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