emvsmith's review
2.0
Summary: A lively counting parade begins with one slow tortoise and ends with one hundred and one big, biggest, small, playful, powerful, plodding elephants.
Review: Exotic animals, some in unnatural colors, are intriguing. Each group of animals is described in strings of words with rhyming or alliteration. Included are larger numbers of animals such as 50 hippos, and even 101 elephants in a fold out page. This might be helpful for young readers just learning to grasp that numbers just keep going and going! Certain animals,due to their coloring and grouping are hard to count, even in numbers as low as eight. What good is a counting book if you can't tell where one leopard ends and the other begins?
Positive review in Booklist. School library journal disagrees with me in their positive review stating, "The sets of creatures are shown frolicking against a bright white background, which makes them stand out for ease in counting.."
Review: Exotic animals, some in unnatural colors, are intriguing. Each group of animals is described in strings of words with rhyming or alliteration. Included are larger numbers of animals such as 50 hippos, and even 101 elephants in a fold out page. This might be helpful for young readers just learning to grasp that numbers just keep going and going! Certain animals,due to their coloring and grouping are hard to count, even in numbers as low as eight. What good is a counting book if you can't tell where one leopard ends and the other begins?
Positive review in Booklist. School library journal disagrees with me in their positive review stating, "The sets of creatures are shown frolicking against a bright white background, which makes them stand out for ease in counting.."
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