aprilthelibrarian's review against another edition
5.0
This is an oldie but a goodie! I love the artwork and I had fun counting the people, houses, pine trees, birds, etc in each page. The counting goes from 0-12 and correlates with the 12 months.
littlebookjockey's review against another edition
4.0
I like how this is more difficult than your standard counting book. It takes into account the actual things that we count in daily life and puts them into different groups to count separately.
allen_h's review against another edition
4.0
This would be great for kindergartners (or younger students) first learning about numbers and how they represent quantities.
tvancort's review against another edition
4.0
This is really lovely. Elegant, even. I hope kiddo falls in love with it so I can upgrade the rating to 5 stars.
sunflowerx's review against another edition
2.0
Mitsumasa Anno’s, Anno’s Counting Book, is full of gorgeous illustrations. Aside from the numbers present on each page, there is no text. I feel like it could benefit from the addition of words because children love being read to. Because of the lack of words this book would only work in small settings, like if you were working with 1-3 children. As the book goes on the illustrations have a certain amount of items to represent the large number shown (1-12). Smaller groups of children would be able to quickly pick out how many of each object is present on each page, but this would be hard to do with a larger group. Even though I feel like this book would be better with text, I do appreciate Anno’s attention to detail. The counting blocks on the left side of each page spread is a smart touch. Children could easily point this out and recognize the manipulatives as something they use during math lessons.
velveteen67's review
4.0
Beautiful counting book that is wordless. The author has many other wordless books. For those looking for wordless picture books.
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